• Friday Flashback

    Friday Flashback

    June 17, 2011 /

    When Busch Gardens was The Old Country…. The park was probably about three or four years old when I took these images.  I was living in Colorado at the time but visiting family one summer.  This was shot from the sky ride gondola… And the world renowned Clydesdale horses….there were certain times of the day you could catch them being moved from this stable to another location.  These horses are huge…huge! The Loch Ness Monster…an amazing coaster that took you into a cave and had connecting loops.  Now I suppose it is considered relatively tame.  The boat docks for the cruise on Rhine river is in the foreground.  This isn’t the best image….the coaster…

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  • Family

    Me and My Buddie

    June 13, 2011 /

    Once upon a time….a very special little girl was born. She was sugar and spice and everything nice. I lived a long way from her when she was born…. ….but one special day, I finally got to meet her. and we instantly became buddies. Did I mention she was sweet?  🙂 Sadly, me and my Buddie didn’t live all that close to each other while we grew up. Her mommy sent me lots of pictures….and little cards that I kept because they were sweet…. and we did get to see each other once in a while… Years have passed and my Buddie has grown into a beautiful young woman with a family…

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  • Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 6.12.2011

    June 12, 2011 /

    Outside my window…in a word, steamy.  At 11:00 this morning, it is 80°F with 73% humidity and relatively no wind…steamy.  Our forecast high for today is 89° with a 50% chance of thunderstorms.  Yesterday we had a 30% chance of storms and storm it did, for quite some time around sunset and into the night.  We received over a quarter inch of rain last night on top of the rain we received Friday night.  My plants are loving these rainstorms after baking this past week in unbelievable heat.  The whole week was hot but Thursday was incredibly hot…so hot I felt a wave of nausea wash over me when I…

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  • Life In General

    Friday

    June 10, 2011 /

    The sky was percolating this evening…I’m not at all surprised.  It was hot…it was humid….and I knew something had to give sooner or later.  About 5:30 this evening, the sky darkened, rumbled and flashed as rain poured down.  It got a little dicey for a bit with the exploding thunder and lightening.  This image isn’t from this evening….tonight I was located underneath something like pictured above I suppose…except a lot bigger.  Did you notice the small rainbow on the left?  🙂  It was the Employee Appreciation Day picnic at work.  We all gathered under the enormous shade trees behind the Wren Building…waiting with bated breath for the President to speak the magic words…you can have…

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  • Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 6.5.2011

    June 5, 2011 /

    Outside my window…is a fairly warm, overcast day.  At almost 2:00 today, the temperature was 78°F which is close to our average for this time of year.  This morning thunder and rain woke me at an early hour….and what a rain storm it was too.  We received about .85 inches of rain ~ enough to fill both my rain barrels back to the top (plus some I’m sure) and soak the heat parched ground.  It had been hot here this past week with temperatures in the low to mid 90’s so the morning rain was welcome.  I had been watering my newly planted seeds as well as other plants with rain water…

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