I’m in Jacksonville Florida for the night picking up a car from my sister. The Navy is doing an Air Show here this weekend, which I had no idea of when we set the date to do the car thing. I got here today and my sister dumped tim and I off a the air show to be picked up later, after the Blue Angels show. They were awesome! I’d be hard pressed to say who had the better show, but if I had to, I’d say the Blue Angels might be flying a little closer than the Thunderbirds…. Either way, I’m sure I could do it too, being a former astronaut and all!

This one I got by accident, shooting the front one while he did his upside down thing on the main runway while his fellow airmen were looping around in the background.

Number 5 and 7 were both right side up as they approached the runway, 5 flipped over from slightly in front of 7, then 7 pulled up next to 5, all at ~250 mph or so, I guess, oh yeah, about 100 feet off the ground? Easy peasy!

Skyline shot

Thats looking pretty tight to me! 

Here are some pics Mary took in the Grand Canyon with Tim’s camera. The pic of all three of us was taken by the Chinese boat captain, while Driving us up the Colorado River. The Canyon is a multi-cultural experience. We met people from all over the globe there including at least Japan, China, India, the Netherlands, and Germany. A couple of the pics are of your’s truly doing what he likes to do best, and of course there is Tim in the back seat of the van, as far away from the parents as possible, listening to his mp3 player.

These flowers were what I stopped to take a look at before I took all the bug pics. More than once I’ve stopped to look at one thing, and found something else that was at least as interesting as the original motivator.

These are the leafs (leaves???) I went all the way out to BH to take pics of. They’re OK, and closer to what I was looking for yesterday.