I am retired and taking life easy living with my beautiful Filipina wife in Metro Manila, Philippines. I was born and grew up, and lived most my life in the state of Kansas, USA. Kansas is located in the very center of the USA and is called the bread basket or wheat basket of The USA. It is mostly flat farm land with wheat field sometimes to as far as the eye can see. In my life I have been a coal miner, an aircraft mechanic, and an aerial photographer. Both taking the pictures and flying my own airplane at the same time.