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Day 300, Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
No photos today.
Day 301, Thursday, October 28th, 2021
Buzz Buzz
I noticed a few honey bees at work on the blue mealy sage when I was out on Sunday so I went back out mid-morning to see if I could capture one. They were moving pretty quickly and it was an extremely windy morning so I didn’t get a great shot. But I like the definition of this guy’s face. I cropped in fairly heavily and because the lighting was harsh, I thought this was stronger in black and white. I also added some grain in post but now think it may be too strong.
Nikon D750 | 105mm | f/8 | 1/320 | ISO 200 | handheld
Buzz - a Chinese Crested - would like to wish everyone a Happy Tongue Tuesday. I know hairless dogs aren't everyone's cup of tea, but Buzz is a sweetheart. :))
It's been a year and a half sicne we last went to Disneyland. And boy have I seen some changes. Not with the park, but with my daughter. The little kid rides (i.e. Peter Pan, Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, etc.) bore her. Jessie is at Disneyland for one thing...riding on rollercoasters. She doesn't even like rides like the Haunted Mansion, It's a Small World, or even Pirates of the Caribbean. The two small drops in Pirates are too small for her. She wants bigger drops and faster rides.
Don't even get me started on the Disney characters. We skipped over Goofy because Jessie didn't want to meet him or get a picture taken with him. She sighed when we told her we were gonna wait for Mickey Mouse to get her picture taken with him. And on our way to Space Mountain (Disneyland's fastest coaster), we saw Buzz Lightyear standing there with NOBODY around him. So I pulled out my camera and told Jessie to go stand next to him. "Noooo! I don't want a picture with him." I told her, "No. You go over and stand next to him for a picture...right now!" :D I think this experience was more for me than it was for her. lol
Seriously...how dare she grow up on me like this! :D Don't get me wrong...I love having someone to go on the big kid rides with (Jane won't. She's a wimp when it comes to fast rides or rides with big drops). It's just that I miss those times where I'd ride the kiddie rides with Jessie. *sniff*
Apollo 11 Astronaut and one of the first people to walk on the Moon
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Buzz Aldrin grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. His mother, Marion Moon, was the daughter of an Army Chaplain and his father Edwin Eugene Aldrin was an aviation pioneer. Buzz graduated one year early from Montclair High School and he attended the US Military Academy at West Point, graduating third in his class with a BS in mechanical engineering. He then joined the Air Force where he flew F86 Sabre Jets in 66 combat missions in Korea, shot down two MIG-15′s, and was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross. After a tour of duty in Germany flying F100′s, he earned his Doctorate of Science in Astronautics at MIT and wrote his thesis on Manned Orbital Rendezvous. Selected by NASA in 1963 into the third group of astronauts, Aldrin was the first with a doctorate and became known as “Dr. Rendezvous.” The docking and rendezvous techniques he devised for spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit became critical to the success of the Gemini and Apollo programs, and are still used today. He pioneered underwater training techniques to simulate spacewalking. In 1966 on the Gemini 12 orbital mission, Buzz performed the world’s first successful spacewalk - extra-vehicular activity (EVA), and set a new EVA record of 5 1⁄2 hours. During that mission he also took the first ‘selfie’ in space. On July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world. An estimated 600 million people - at that time, the world's largest television audience in history - witnessed this unprecedented heroic endeavor. Upon returning from the moon, Buzz was decorated with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous awards all over the world. Named after Buzz are Asteroid "6470 Aldrin" and the "Aldrin Crater" on the moon. In 2011 along with his Apollo 11 crewmates Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, he received the Congressional Gold Medal. Buzz is the author of 9 books, most recently his children’s book, Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet and his newest NY Times and Washington Post Bestseller, “No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon”. Both published by National Geographic. In October of 2014 he revamped his ShareSpace Foundation to be focused on STEAM Education - Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math to ignite the spark and fuel excitement for space in kids –Specifically for K-8. In August of 2015 he launched the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute at Florida Tech to promote and develop his vision of a permanent human settlement on the planet Mars. Since retiring from NASA and the U.S. Air Force, Col. Aldrin calls himself a Global Statesman for Space and has remained a tireless advocate for human space exploration.
A smart man zips around town in his inexpensive restored van. This vehicle has character and so does its owner.
I have had to make two of these Buzz models, both for May 1st. I've never made him before (and dreaded having to!) and used an Asda bubble bath bottle as a guide for badges etc. This model is about half the size of the bubble bath bottle.
6" carrot cake with cream cheese buttercream topped with shooting stars, Buzz Lightyear toy and glitter 5. Side cake decor matches cupcakes
Copyright 2006 Peter Van den Wyngaert.
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Disneyland Paris trip:
Sunday June 11 and Monday June 12 2006.
Sunday June 11
Next to Autopia
Discoveryland
one of my new years resolutions was to take more photos of people -- so here's Buzz and Kame, two longtime good friends, sailing together on Buzz's boat, looking at the mainsail & deciding whether to modify its shape or not...
funny coincidence: they both have rather odd first names that they don't use, and both are IIIs (i.e. one generation past junior) -- maybe that's why they both use nicknames instead?
One of a series of fourteen hand-forged artworks, dotted along a trail beside the River Colne in the old port area of Colchester ( The Hythe). They are the work of a group of artists ( Andrew Rowe, David Mackie, Heather Parnell and Becky Adams) who worked with members of the local community to produce the sculptures. The trail begins ( or ends) at firstsite, the new arts' devlopment in Colchester town centre , which will open to the public on 25 September 2011.
The sculptures represent various aspects of either the wildlife or local history of the area and the whole trail is described in a specially written poem by Martin Newell of Wivenhoe, in which he assigns a verse to each sculpture. The details ( including a map of the trail) are available locally in Colchester.
'Buzz' can be found in the ( inaccessible) churchyard of St Leonard at Hythe, where it depicts the colony of wild bees which breed in the base of an old medieval stone clockface. Both hive and sculpture are visible from Hythe Hill.
In Martin Newell's words :
Here among St Leonard's features
Ancient beehive, working still
And the buzz of busy creatures
Drifting up to Timber Hill.