Here are the last pictures to be posted for 2008
Our Bookstudy Group, the week of the final bookstudy. . . . . . . Bunch of crazy people.
What is wrong with this picture? It was taken in December! This is wrong, there should be snow! Not a GREEN field!
Not the Golf Course………
Moon at Perigree, 12/12/2008
This is a small lake in the middle of Woodway, Tx. It was a Beautiful, if windy day, and this spot caught my eye.
I like the reflections in the water, disturbed by the ripples.
I had a lens hood on, but still I get a lens flare . Hmmmmm.
I couldn’t decide on which was better
. So here are both of them.
Chattanooga Tennessee, Glass bridge near the arts district. Aint this a cool picture!
Taken by Rusty. September 18, 2008
Apparently the bottom half of Cloud City drifted into the flight path from Tennessee to Texas.
or, this is just a cool picture.
Taken by Rusty. September 19, 2008
Nifty tree. TSTC Waco. Nikon D80, Sigma 24-60mm f/2.8 60mm @ f/4 1/250sec iso 100
The Keebler Elves want their tree back……
This is called a “Lunar Occultation”. Some places in the world Venus (the planet low in the picture below the moon) was seen to vanish behind the moon. The other planet is Jupiter. This is the closest approach of the three in many years, I am not sure how long. The moon and Venus were behind a thin wisp of cloud and so appear a bit hazy.
In this house, I think the cats are actually in charge. Everything seems to be done for them instead of the humans. Today for instance I built a set of shelves specifically for them. I guess they instructed me while I was asleep. Here are the results.
Maybe I am a slave to 4 cats, but thats not always a bad thing.
Here are some pictures I found while organizing my hard drive.
More to follow.....
These were taken last April at the Waco Model Airstrip in Speegleville park.
Poison Ivy: Public Enemy #1!
A rose from my flowerbed
another one.
This is "Buddy". A friend's new puppy.
When stuffed monkeys attack.........
02:04 PM PT, Oct 6 2008
Berkeley Breathed is putting his penguin on ice. The 51-year-old cartoonist said he will pull the plug on his comic-strip career and “Opus” after Nov. 2.
In an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times, the 51-year-old Breathed wrote, “30 years of cartooning to end. I’m destroying the village to save it. Opus would inevitably become a ranting mouthpiece in the coming wicked days, and I respect the other parts of him too much to see that happen. The Michael Moore part of me would kill the part of him that was important to his fans.”
"Opus," a 5-year-old Sunday comic with a madcap political bent, stars the pudgy penguin from Breathed’s classic “Bloom County” strip. It will end just before the presidential election.
“Opus” will end with an online contest asking readers to guess the fate of the penguin. At Breathed's website there is a notice that "The Opus Paradise Contest" begins Oct. 12. The Times has not yet decided on a replacement for “Opus” on Sundays.
Image of Opus, drawn by Berkeley Breathed, courtesy of the artist and the Washington Post Writer's Group.
January 2007 photo by the Associated Press shows Berkeley Breathed and his penguin creation.
Story from the Los Angeles Times. www.latimes.com
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September 6, 2008
Party at Mark & Joan Nelson's house. I was mostly interested in the birds.
Inflatable waterslide!
Some kind of purple flower, backlit with SB-600
After a while, Manami took the camera and followed the kids around.
poor bunny.
It was a good time.......
September 20, 2008
Tony & Joann Bueckers 40th Anniversary
Games were Played, Food was had, People were goofy,
Tony and Jo got some good loot,
and......
Cows Multiplied!!
The one with white on his head was born the day before, and the all black calf was born during the party!
