I’ve been antsy to get out and take some fall pictures for the last week. The weather hasn’t been right or I haven’t had the time. I finally got out today. I was trying for some pictures of a barn I found that was kind of glowing the other day, but, the pics today didn’t meet my expectations. Another time…
This is an adult and 2 younger raccoons crossing over from an island in one of the ponds to an edge of the pond. At first all I saw was her(?) and the 2 babies. This was as the sun was slipping down behind the trees, so I was lucky to get this shot, and had to brighten it up quite a bit. Thus the washed out detail. But it’s still a cool couple of pics.
Then 3 more immature raccoons followed up. They all crossed the litte mound. The egret and geese paid no attention to the goings on.
The sun slipping behind the phragmites gives them a nice glow. I can’t quite get the pic I see in my head, but this is as close as I got today.
The T-6 aerobatic team, up from Louisiana and Alabama. What a cool sound these planes had. One of the pilots (~42 years old) had 20,000 hours as a pilot. Thats 10 full work years in airplanes.
A fuller view of the B-25 with the T-6 Team in the background.
This was a neat Demo. Those F-86s are privately owned. Both pilots are interesting. One is a retired navy pilot, a whiz with the F-14 and a former navy pilot of the year. The other is a retired executive with the moxie to learn how to do this stuff in his 40s. One of the planes used to belong to Frank Borman, the Apollo astronaut.
(S)He kept the nose up and ran down the runway for quite a bit. Nothing to it.
I coulda done all this stuff, see, I was an astronaut back in the 70s, I went on a lot of secret missions, see. They let me be an astronaut because I had the right stuff and flew jet aircraft all the time, yeah, thats the ticket. I was an astronaut…
