No, it's not Fred Radtke. This is in the Bronx. I love the term "gray ghost" for buffed grafitti. Catherine mentioned to me that there is this guy, Fred Radtke, who buffs grafitti with a vengeance in New Orleans, slopping gray paint over any piece he'd see, even if it's on someone's house, fence, even completely covering stop street signs with gray paint! Even people who don't like grafitti in NOLA are supposedly pissed at him. At least the graf writers are trying to make an art form of sorts, adding to a city that has had so much taken away. Radtke is covering the city with grey blobs! But oddly enough, I've been attracted to these grey blobs in NY for years. There's this one underpass I walked through one night that had so many buffs from so many different times that it became this mess of abstraction. Unintentional modernist art! I was floored.

We went to the beach with some of our dog park friends this Sunday and had a blast.

More playing around with the camera settings and processing

They were in the back yard & got busted digging for a mole! Neither were happy about having to come in the house & theproof they were being naughty is right there on their noses!

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

Instead of removing this "DEFEND NEW ORLEANS" sticker, The newly appointed GRAY GANGSTA (the former grey ghost) painted over it on a wrought iron gate. Now, the single woman who takes care of this property has a grey outline where the sticker used to be. Fred, let's sit down and talk about this. Let's negotiate the finer points of logic. The Defend New Orleans guys aren't gangsters, they're businessmen. They're not street people, they advertise and hold parties. Work with those of us who love the city, not against us.

I love the look on this guys face. He allowed me to walk up to his tree, keeping his eye on me from a long ways back. Yes Gary, this is my pet. I love the Gray Ghost.

male Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus

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From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

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From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

Rough-legged Hawk chased the Gray Ghost above the big hill.

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thanks jaeger43 for the why they do it.

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the big man's foot. you can look but don't dare touch.

grave of John Mosby

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Lucy has just given up these days and just lets her brother Rocky sit on top of her.

Male Northern Harrier aka Gray Ghost

Weld County, Colorado

tell me " I have the Authority to paint ovet that graffitti "

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

Ridley, Daddy, Angel-face,

Ridley and I playing with Photo Booth

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

Right on, Bill Hicks fan.

QGRY 6920 (ex.CN) reverses into the engine track at the QGRY Ste. Therese yard after pulling a train in from Quebec City.

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

Blake communicates to Apollo with special noises like "Murmp."

I practiced on the pups using some of the different functions on my camera this morning. P. Walter is still unsure of my big camera and the fact I keep taking pictures of him. The whole idea is really very unsettling for him. He either wants to be right in my lap while it's happing or very far away from me. I tell him to sit and he runs to the other end of the living room :| Apollo, thankfully is like Phoebe and doesn't mind being the center of the cameras attention, it's just getting him focused for longer than a second and a half :D (But yay! Look he's not a mirage! Or blur, that's oscillating between parallel universes!)

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Sky Meadows State Park, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA

Kia: Oh cool something to pick uyp & play with

Lylah: Ahhh what the hell is that? You should not touch that thing!

Kia: Oh c'mon we can have a great time. This is cool.

Lylah: K i'm in!

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB