Six Flags Fiesta Texas did a great job of lighting up the park for the holidays.
I made sure to pay attention to how they did it, and noted some of the clever hooks and fasterners they used.
They’ve got a LOT of lights up, which I obviously approve of!
It seemed like every tree was wrapped in very bright, colorful LEDs, every building roof line outlined in bigger lights.
A wonderful job!
Filed under Christmas Lights, Photography, Travel
Flying back on Monday, over New Mexico, near sunset, snow covered landscape and I see this odd formation near the bottom of the picture.
A crater of some sort, with two large hills or mounds near the top, sorta looks like big eyes with a gaping mouth…
Maybe it’s just me.
Tracking the location down, I think this is part of the Chain of Craters Wilderness Study Area at 34.727060, -108.356174. I do wonder what made all of those craters. Probably volcanic, I’m guessing?
That one still looks like our blue, googly-eyed friend.
Or a wedding ring, maybe.
Filed under Photography, Travel
The problem with taking a four-day weekend, especially at an incredibly busy time of year, is that you’ve got to come back to work.
Mind you, I truly enjoy my job, what I do, and in particular, who I work with. (That’s not even bullshit!) But I also get to live in the real world, where there is stress and a limited number of hours in the day and my body isn’t 100% sure what day of the week it is or what time zone I’m in.
So enjoy this picture from the Christmas tree lighting at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. With a few fireworks.
I need some sleep.
Filed under Christmas Lights, Fireworks, Photography, Travel
The family had gathered in San Antonio for a celebration of The Son’s impending retirement from the Air Force after twenty years of service. It was wonderful to spend time with all of the kids together – that doesn’t happen so often any more.
Today was “travel back home” day. It was foggy, gray, and gloomy on the ground in San Antonio, but once we climbed above that lower layer of clouds, it was spectacular!
(And no, we don’t have four suns. We have one sun and a bunch of internal reflections with probably some reflections off of the multiple panes of window glass on the aircraft.)
Filed under Photography, Travel, Weather
On the one hand – YOLO!
On the other hand – you’re HOW old? That first drop is HOW high? There are HOW many loops?
Those cars do WHAT? You spin HOW MANY TIMES?
Yes, you did this a lot when you were forty years younger. You’re no longer forty years younger.
Please, for the love of god, use some common sense!
Yeah, right. Have we actually ever met?
Suffice it to say, poor life choices were made.
Filed under Family, Photography, Travel
We’ve had the two flights to and from Chicago in September for Worldcon, but that’s it for the past three years. And it’s been way, Way, WAY, WAY too long since I’ve had a flight in the left seat at the pointy end.
Looking back through the photos, there were years that had more than a dozen trips to cons, to see relatives, to weddings, to Chiefs games…
Getting back to that would be excellent.
Filed under Flying, Photography, Travel
Montreal, from the 1967 World’s Fair. Designed by R. Buckminster Fuller, now used for the Biosphere Museum.
Name and personal information on the seagull wasn’t available. It didn’t stop to sign a waiver.
Filed under Photography, Travel
It was a dozen years ago, a cross-country trip, somewhere on I-10 in Texas.
Big clouds. Bright white from a distance, convection reaching for the heavens.
Getting darker and darker underneath, heading toward black punctuated only by lightning. Lots of that, small hail, winds that might or might not have been a tornado or at least tornado-adjacent, and sheets and sheets of rain.
It was an experience!
Filed under Photography, Travel, Weather
Yesterday there was a photo that had a handful of good memories combined with a significant number of less-than-good memories. Today’s the opposite. So many good memories of that day, the only down side being missed opportunities, things that could have made it better but which I’ll never get back.
Still, the good memories are overwhelming. Vermont. Kayaking with a very dear friend. Loons. Listening to their distinctive, haunting cry at sunset, watching them in the Northeast Kingdom. The peace of Molly’s Falls Pond.
We all need more days like that.
Filed under Photography, Travel
Okay, we’re not going to write that one. Not a good night after a long Monday to rip that psychic bandaid off in public.
So then the freakin’ muse (bitch!) pushes us to write THAT one. Um, a couple hundred words in … NO! I don’t care how much I like that song and how it inspires and it’s probably something I need to write sooner rather than later. Not. Today.
No new lizard pictures? No, Gandalf was out there again and still on duty, but I didn’t have my phone or a camera with me. (Okay, so that’s burying the lede! I didn’t have my phone with me??!!)
So what’s Plan C?
I took hundreds of pictures in Chicago, there must be something that I haven’t already posted, right? Here, have a panorama from downtown on Wacker Drive, just across the street from our hotel, next to the river on the right.
Mañana, y’all.
Filed under Panorama, Photography, Travel
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