Chicago after Dark

Chicago at night
The carriages
The river
Hancock Place
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thanksgiving return trip 2006

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October 2006

We came down to Florida and stopped in Asheville at the Biltmore.



After that we stopped in Savannah and went out to Tybee Island.
Here is the lighthouse.


We also celebrated a birthday.


And got to hang out with Maggie.


Jane's cat Dali, is young and agile. Here she is coming down a loft ladder upside down, using the wall to steady herself.



The rain on this hibiscus made for an interesting picture.

Lee Bottom

Lee Bottom is a place that my friend Steve took me to once in a beautiful biplane. They have a fly-in that features wood and tailwheel airplanes. The strip is grass with woods on one end and a cornfield on the other. I was going to fly there this year, but I woke up with a nasty case of something, and decided that driving down would be safer. The other component of the decision was the weather, it ended up raining on us.

When we got there, the sun was shining and the sky was blue. By the time we left, it was grey. In between we got to be up close and personal with a DC-3 and a lot of other planes.

This pilot was just getting ready to taxi in his Swallow, which sets the mood for the day

Here he is on final.

These Cubs arrived and left in formation.

This year the star was a DC-3. Here is a fast pass, one of many passes.
Many planes in the pattern, and in the middle of it all, a B-17 went over the top.

I did not catch it the first time but the pilot was getting into the corn right before he made the threshold.

These are two different passes from different perspectives.

Here's the proofThe field got fairly busy. Weather was moving in from Louisville.

morning light

Julie and I went to a basket class, that started early on Sunday morning. I had the camera in the car, so while we waited for the class to get going, I took a few photos.

The low angle sunlight brings out a different view of the world.

Indy Air show 06

I don't know the exact explanation, but it goes something like this, the pressure wave over the airplane causes the water vapor to condense as the plane passes. This is a super f-18, longer fuselage and two seats, going by pretty fast.

Pyro is cool.

Rain

These guys zoom.

Here's the pass where they look like they will collide.

more

this is a view of San Francisco from Alcatraz

I liked the perspective on this shot.

This guy was wiping the rain off the plane (mainly in Spain), just kidding.
Flyboys could be a good movie, that is what the poster says anyway.

This is Alcatraz from the boat, the haze is how it was.
I told Julie that when we are too old to fly, we will have to move to San Francisco so we can sail around the bay.

More San Francisco

I thought I should put up a few more pictures, so in no particular order: