Sunday, December 28, 2008

2008 ends, where did it go?

Here are the last pictures to be posted for 2008

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Our Bookstudy Group, the week of the final bookstudy. . . . . . .         Bunch of crazy people.

Green in December! What is wrong with this picture?   It was taken in December!  This is wrong, there should be snow!  Not a GREEN field!Out Of Place

Not the Golf Course………

 

 

that thing up there

Moon at Perigree, 12/12/2008

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Shiny Little Lake

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, December 5, 2008

Cool Pictures of the Moment

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Chattanooga Tennessee,  Glass bridge near the arts district.     Aint this a cool picture!

Taken by Rusty.         September 18, 2008

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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

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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……

Monday, December 1, 2008

The Moon looks cool tonite!

  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.

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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Spoiled Rotten Cats!

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.

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Maybe I am a slave to 4 cats, but thats not always a bad thing.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Nature Walk, sort of.....

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More Pictures

This time on a theme!          sort of.........

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Random Pictures !

Here are some pictures I found while organizing my hard drive.

More to follow.....

 

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Monday, October 6, 2008

A moment of Silence Please................

Berkeley Breathed says goodbye to Opus: 'I'm destroying the village to save it'

02:04 PM PT, Oct 6 2008

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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.

Berkeley_breathed_and_opus Breathed, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Bloom County,” also writes screenplays, novels and children’s books. In a press release from the Washington Post Writers Group, which syndicates “Opus,” he said, “With the crisis in Wall Street and Washington, I’m suspending my comic strip to assist the nation. The best way I can help is to leave politics permanently and write funny stories for America’s kids. I call on John McCain to join me.”

“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.


-- Sherry Stern

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

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Congregation Parties

 

(Click on the pictures to get the larger version)

September 6, 2008

Party at Mark & Joan Nelson's house.   I was mostly interested in the birds.

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After a while, Manami took the camera and followed the kids around.

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It was a good time.......

 

 

 

September 20, 2008

Tony & Joann Bueckers 40th Anniversary

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Games were Played,     Food was had,   People were goofy,

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Tony and Jo got some good loot,

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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!

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