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I've asked the tired eyes of every old soul I've ever met,
what have they been through and where they went wrong,
I've chased forgotten holidays across states and countries and new terrains,
I've listened to soft, slow, enchanting words from gurus, nomads and old women,
I've been told lies over and over and over again
go ahead dear but don't wish on just that one star,
wish on the whole god damn galaxy of heaven,
for everything, for absolution, reclamation, grandeur and immensity.
My 8 year old son loves the Columbus Blue Jacket goalie Sergei! This is his pumpkin for the Blue Jacket Halloween pumpkin contest. Give him a vote if you can! It takes literally 2 secs. Thanks soooo much! Here's the link.
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Model: Maja
Photo: Thomas Ohlsson Photography
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I enjoyed spending time at the Chesapeake Light Craft booth. These folks are known for their high quality wooden boat kits.
Better yet, I have been in their Annapolis facility twice in recent months. These folks are very eager to show you their facility and they go the extra mile in answering questions.
Of interest to prospective Bluejacket builders is they will sell you plywood panels with puzzle joints cut out in the 4' edges. So, for those of you that wish to avoid the scarfing effort in the bottom and top side panels during a Bluejacket build, you have a solution.
We have returned to our winter home outside of Austin. I'm getting organized to return to Bluejacket building. However, first priority was enjoying a December sail on my neighbor Ernie's boat. Temps in the 70's and blue sky.
This is the first time I have been on lake Travis since massive rains increased the lake from 35 to 85% full. Gone are the high and dry boat houses and unusable boat ramps.
Last May before the rains came, Ernie and I were sailing towards a white buoy. These buoys are plentiful on Travis and usually indicate a no wake zone or buried cable. Consequently, with our vast boating experience and superior intellect we ignored it and sailed on.
We came to an abrupt and crashing stop. We had hit a house.
Prior to the Colorado river bed flooding after Mansfield dam was finished, there were limestone walled houses on the river banks. No reason to tear all of them down as in theory the lake level would never be low enough to pose a problem for boaters. With the four year historic drought, the walls of our impacted house were three feet under water thus our keel found it. Had we taken the time to read the buoy's marking we would have found "DANGER".
Ernie's keel has a new notch in it and I add "house" to my list of hit objects.
We've had a lot of cool, rainy days recently here in New England, where it should be summer weather. So when life gives you rain, go out and shoot!
It's disappointing that he's looking away from the camera -- somehow face-in-shot is always more compelling -- but then again, he is just trying to survive by keeping a good look out for traffic. Fair enough, I say.
Kristen sips a hot cup of coffee after snowshoeing to the top of Seymour Mountain earlier this winter.
I am looking forward to hiking, scrambling and adventuring with her this coming summer.
Model: Maja
Photo: Thomas Ohlsson Photography
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President John F. Kennedy thanks pilots & Bluejackets following the ordnance demo. Pilot at left NAF Lt. Dave Callahan, HIPEG demo (Event 12) and the VF-162 Hunters pilots who flew the 20mm strafing demo (Event 11) and NAF Lt. Rod Sikes who flew the 50 cal. demo in the DT-28 (Event 10). L-r behind JFK are Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth, JFK’s naval aide Capt. Tazewell Shepard, CA Sen. Claire Engel and NAF CO Capt. Jack Hough. Aircraft are NAF DF-1D Fury BuNo 136064 (Event #16) & NAF DT-28B Trojan BuNo 138355 (Event #10). Photo from JFK Presidential Library.
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Hand drawn flower illustrations by the "Audubon of Botany", Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940). Mary was a female American artist and naturalist known for her almost a thousand watercolors of North American wildflowers. She started experimenting with painting flowers at the age of eight. During her family summer trips to the Rocky Mountains of Canada, she developed her interest in botany and painting. Mary Vaux Walcott and her brother also studied mineralogy. Her success in painting a rare blooming mountain arnica encouraged her to concentrate on botanical illustrations. Mary Vaux Walcott also became an active mountain climber and photographer because she spent many years exploring the difficult terrain in the Canadian Rockies. As a remarkable botanist artist and an unconventional woman, she was elected as the president of the Society of Woman Geographers in 1933. We have digitally enhanced hundreds of her wildflower watercolor paintings into high resolution printable quality. They are free to download and use under the creative commons license.
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A practical car for everyday. With matching aftermarket BBS rims. Clean.
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Model: Maja
Photo: Thomas Ohlsson Photography
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Crews of the Higgins Boats (Bluejackets) and tractor (Leathernecks) hold the craft together while assault troops go over the side. Guadalcanal. 15-19 February, 1944.
Photographer: Sgt. Rex Robbins.
Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
boston, massachusetts
june 17, 1972
drum corps
bunker hill day parade
charlestown
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