Nothing like it in the world…everybody needs to see the beauty of a Grand Canyon sunset.
I am resuming my summer travels writing…although we’re now nearly 6 months departed from this trip. I need need need to get these memories written down so I don’t forget everything.
I have a couple weeks until my next block of work begins at the Air Force Academy, so I figured I’d use this time to continue catching up. I had arranged my photo albums based on my blog posts, so it’s a little less chaotic than it might have been with a huge clump of photos.
This post is about the stunning Grand Canyon sunset. There are two things every visitor needs to do: hike down below the rim and see a sunset. The amazing colors in the geology and sky are worth the effort. Take a good camera, you’ll want to have fun with the settings to try to capture the colors.
I’m going to play catch up on some day-to-day life blog posts this week. I’ve made two trips to Omaha in the past 2 months and that gets pretty exhausting, I put a lot aside just to keep the family caught up with groceries, Cub Scouts, piano lessons and household tasks. So let me post … Read more
Enjoy a nice picture of the boys just before they headed out for the school bus yesterday. The boys both have great teachers this year and both have been reporting good days so far. Jacob’s happy to have many of his friends from last year’s class in his 4th grade class again this year. Timmy … Read more
On Tuesday morning at about 8:30am when I let the dog out in the backyard, I saw a thunderstorm building towards the east near Hurlburt Field and Fort Walton Beach. The rising sun was behind the storm clouds and shining through some ice clouds, causing some pretty diffractions. This gave me some good opportunity to … Read more
What??? Yeah…um…I had a good old time today photographing assorted stuff with the new camera while I was doing lawn work. First of all, this lacewing has been sitting all day on our door from the garage into the house. I’m starting to dabble a little with the post-processing that iPhoto offers. Dave has numerous … Read more
This past week was Dave’s and my 17th anniversary. Because Dave’s birthday is the same week as our anniversary, he took the day off between the two special events and we had a nice day together. We took the kids on one more trip to the Pensacola MESS Hall, and then after lunch at Cajun … Read more
* I plan to renumber/redesignate my Nebraska-sightseeing-related blog posts into something more mangeable for search engines. Stay tuned, if you subscribe via RSS you might get inundated with updates. I’m not changing the text of the posts, just the titles and tagging.
The Keystone Trail parallels Papio Creek in Bellevue.
From where I’m staying in Bellevue for my reserve work right now, it was about a 1/2 mile run to a trailhead off Capehart Rd. It was so easy. So I set my Nike+ for a 5K run and ran out 1.5 miles or so on the trail. On the return trip, once my Nike+ told me I had run 5K, I stopped to enjoy the views. I could take some pictures too.
The markers are approximately every tenth of a mile. They are a bit misleading on this marker: the "K" is for "Keystone" and not "kilometer". The numbers posted are miles.
Yesterday was one of the baseball-iest days I’d ever experienced. Each of the boys had their own baseball games during the day, then we headed out to Pensacola and enjoyed seeing our new local AA minor league baseball team, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, in their brand new stadium right on Pensacola Bay! More on the Blue Wahoos later.
Our boys here play for Navarre Youth Sports Association’s baseball league. As is typical in Florida, they’re serious about sports here. And they start those boys EARLY! Our own sons had never played baseball until we moved here, and it turns out there are several hundred boys playing baseball here, and several hundred more playing soccer in the same club. And come this fall, ALL those boys (except my two) are playing football.
In this particular club (and I’m not sure who the national level organization is that this club now follows — last year it was Dizzy Dean, but this year it isn’t) the boys’ teams are simply named after the coach’s favorite major league team. Last year Jacob was on the White Sox, this year he’s on the Tigers. His current coach is indeed from eastern Michigan. Timmy is on the Braves and he couldn’t be more excited about that.
I captured some pretty good pictures of the boys at their games yesterday. They’re both respectfully among the youngest on their teams, and this is Timmy’s first year playing baseball. It’s remarkable seeing their skills develop over the course of the season!
When my boys' teams are the "visitors" here, I'm sitting on the side that gives me a good view of the batter. Here's Timmy hitting a foul ball. He's become a VERY good hitter this season...Two hours later, we were at Jacob's game. I haven't taken many pictures this season because I always fear I'm going to miss something while looking at the screen on the back of the camera. And in this case, I took this picture right before he hit this ball for a single! Do you see the ball in motion? It's hovering between the third baseman and the shortstop.
**This doesn’t mean I want another baby. It’s just nice to look back on my boys’ super-dooper cute baby pictures! Today a fellow Air Force spouse friend posted pictures of her daughter on Facebook — portraits taken at the beach just after her first birthday. There were some family portraits also. In one of the … Read more
Enjoy the boys’ Spring school portraits. I opted for the CD with a large digital copy this year. Grandparents, I’ll be printing some up for you, I promise! The boys go to different schools so their sessions were on different days, but I tried hard to put them in complimentary outfits and chose the same … Read more
