As seen from a Hot Air Balloon

These birds are all coming to be my friends! Blogged at eschhousequilts.blogspot.com.

Ryanair B737-800 on a downwind to Dublin Airport after a go-around....don't get too many things for "free" on this airline!!!

My favorite sound in the entire world (as of this point in my experiences) is the sound of snow crunching underfoot as you walk through it. This is because of two reasons:

1) It is snowing, and I love snow.

2) In order to hear this crunching, it has to be quiet and whenever it snows, things get really quiet. It does not matter if it is out in the Gorge or in the middle of downtown. Snowy mornings are almost always quiet mornings.

This was the case this morning a few years back. Though there were ample signs of life continuing on in the foot prints and tire treads cutting through the snow, I saw nary another soul in this hour or so I wandered downtown. Eventually I found myself on top of a parking garage, which seems to happen with alarming regularity since I got into photography. I liked the pattern in the tire marks as they cut through the intersection and got this shot with my Nikon FM2. Actually I really really like the flow of travel amongst all the trails left by both pedestrians and motorists. It is interesting to see where people turned, where they swerved, etc. Maybe that is just me.

I have few qualms about living in Portland. It rains a lot. The city is green. It is close to the mountains, the gorge and the beach. The people are ... interesting. What is not to love? Well the fact that we get one good snowfall every other year in town. If we had more practice at driving in the snow, maybe we would not all panic the moment we got half an inch of the stuff. ;-)

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doing touch’n’goes/base training at Nagoya Chubu Centrair Airport

On the Pacific Avenue overpass looking towards downtown Tacoma, at sunset. I <3 you, Tacoma.

Looks right on black.

A cheerful new version of my Traffic Pattern design. I've wanted to make this version forever. Blogged.

After a harrowing experience driving the freeway from French Catalonia just north of the Spanish border and into Spanish Catalonia, we parked in an underground garage (very) glad to leave the car behind!! We emerged into the bustling center of town...hungry and slightly disheveled. (Try driving 95 mph - 152 kilometers an hour ... along a crowded freeway with trucks passing you on the right and left going 100 mph - 160 kilometers an hour!!! Sure to drive up the blood pressure! I had to pry my hands off the seat belt and many times just shut my eyes. .... and no i wasn't driving but often couldn't even WATCH!!)

Ah.....but Barcelona had its magic!! And I had come here for a day trip to see the work of Gaudi (next photo to be posted tomorrow). And now there was lunch!! served on the top story of a department store ... a cafeteria style buffet with a great bird's eye view of town. Perfect!! Here's an interactive photo map of Barcelona if you like: www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/maps/barcelona-map.html

About Catalonia here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia

About Northern or French Catalonia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Catalonia

and this is a map that shows which parts of historic Catalonia are now in France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Catalonia2.png

It's been weeks since a crash at Driftwood and Cypress, but these 'wave of the future' Cross Traffic Reduction Turning Lanes don't seem to be catching on that well.

2014 Dodge Challenger R/T

Header Orange

GL Muscle series 18

2012 Chevrolet Corvette Z06

Crystal Red

General Motors Collection

Series #1

Driftwood Plaza

Driftwood & Cypress Road

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II

Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R

For more info about the dioramas, check out the FAQ: 1stPix FAQ

looking down from the High Line, I noticed a pattern.....a conformity in traffic......but one lone soul dared to defy the leader, sullying his lead by taking his own direction on foot.............

okay, if you look closely there is someone by his side........details details......but honestly....why mess with fiction?

This is the Richmond, Virginia skyline over the Manchester Bridge and James River.

When you do Spotting without leaving home :D.

Airbus A320 of Vueling doing some traffic patterns at Reus Airport.

Airbus A320-214

EC-LZZ

Vueling

This is the Richmond, Virginia skyline over the Manchester Bridge and James River.

This works much better than the Muni data put through the same program. You can see how the traffic light timing works on many streets!

People who have doubted whether Guerrero actually has timed traffic lights can see here that it does.

The timing on Bush, Pine, and California especially stands out, as do many Tenderloin, Nob Hill, South of Market, and Mission streets.

I am kind of amazed that the clocks on the traffic signals are stable from day to day over the course of months. I had assumed that the timing on the signals would drift a few seconds each day and it wouldn't be possible to pick out patterns so easily.

Green is seconds 0-19 of each minute; red is seconds 20-39 of each minute; blue is seconds 40-59 of each minute.

Data from Cabspotting.

Seemed very innovative at the time, and looked great on paper, but people just can't seem to get the hang of these new fangled Cross Traffic Reduction Lanes on Driftwood Road.

I think they would be better received if they came up with a catchy name.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II

Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R

For more info about the dioramas, check out the FAQ: 1stPix FAQ

See the full map for description.

Data from Cabspotting.

This was a surprise! I caught this NP-3D in the traffic pattern at Moffett Federal Airfield (KNUQ); aircraft is assigned to VX-30 "Bloodhounds" from NAS Point Mugu, CA (KNTD).

OG&E NightSprints

Runaway in use is 36, no wind, late afternoon (video recorded with an old cam)

Video also avalaible on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FId2HBeZSM

This still doesn't explain the pattern of the pulsations on many routes, but shows distinctive patterns on more streets than the previous version.

Green is seconds 0-19 of each minute; red is seconds 20-39 of each minute; blue is seconds 40-59 of each minute.

Data from NextBus.

This is the Richmond, Virginia skyline over the Manchester Bridge and James River.

This is an old video of a landing at Venegono on 36 head with a very strong wind. The video was captured about an year and half ago and rediscovered these days (in order to explain to a friend how land with an heavy traverse wind without destroying the cessna).

Turbulences, a possible rotor, wind 30 kts from NW to NE - bursts up to 45 kts (as reported from the tower). The building at the border of the runaway - Aermacchi factory and some Italian Airforce buildings - have reduced the wind of about 10 kts

Will be the day that I die, but not today

Video also avalaible on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4LqiRTYIZQ

Haiku

Danza nel vento

La farfalla combatte

Monti lontani

Dance in the wind

A fighting butterfly

Distant mountains

Fourth pass...left base to final, Runway 32L at Moffett Field.

Aircraft is assigned to VX-30 "Bloodhounds" from NAS Pt. Mugu, Calif.

A Lockheed KC-130F assigned to VX-30 "Bloodhounds" works the pattern at San Jose.

Graph from DoubleClick Performics showing major online holiday season traffic increases peaking on Mondays after Black Friday each year.

I cited this graph in an article I wrote on Preparing Websites for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

About this graph, DoubleClick Performics says: "Here's how the seasonal sales patterns have looked for the last couple of years across our client base. Each year's data is lined up from Thanksgiving through Christmas, which falls a different number of days out each year, but is always the nadir of the season. The first gray bar is offline retail's so-called "Black Friday." The remaining bars are the four cyber-mondays. This season we'll have a fifth to take into account in budgeting."

See larger on black:

www.flickr.com/photos/reston2020/5224751724/lightbox/

Another view -- sunny day on Wiehle Ave...

www.flickr.com/photos/reston2020/5262223576/lightbox/

A third shot of the Bloodhounds KC-130F doing touch-n-goes at San Jose.

At the Bennett Martin Public Library in downtown Lincoln, NE, we recently moved our increasingly popular DVD collection from the 2nd floor (where they had been near all the other "recorded" material -- CDs, Books-on-CD, VHS tapes, etc.) to a more high-traffic area on the 1st floor. Some subsequent furniture shifting to move tables out of the way and a couple of easy chairs nearby has resulted in a very popular new browsing area!

The video of the entire flight is avalaible on my facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Night.Flier)

link to the video

www.facebook.com/v/164805115438

Here's another shot of the VX-30 KC-130F working the pattern at San Jose.

This is the Richmond, Virginia skyline over the Manchester Bridge and James River.

The video of the entire flight is avalaible on my facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Night.Flier)

link to the video

www.facebook.com/v/198304310438

After 36 takeoff and 1000 agl fly to this town (heading 045) in order to avoid traffics from west (from maggiore lake, calcinate/vergiate airports)

Singapore Airlines dancing with in the clouds during its upward leg to 28L, at SFO

HEFTY 22, left traffic, Runway 21R, Travis AFB. She's a big'un!