Good shots RA!
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Great shots, all of 'em!
The shot of the ray passing over your brother was really cool!
The shot of the ray passing over your brother was really cool!
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RabidAlien
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Okay, so I'm a tad lazy. The wife and I rented the kiddo out to the grandparents (er....great-grandparents) a couple of weekends ago, and drove up to Broken Bow, Oklahoma (Beaver Bend National Park). It was a nice restful, relaxing three day weekend, even if I never got up to Heavenor to see the Viking runestone 
x). On the way, we hit some construction traffic in, as luck would have it, Greenville Texas, which I'd totally forgotten was the home of none other than Audie Murphy, himself! The traffic proved to be a good thing, since it stopped us dead on the Interstate, right next to a convenient off-ramp which allowed us to do a U-turn and head back a mile or so to the memorial (doubles as the Cotton Mill Museum...we decided to skip the museum). If you look close, you can see some idiot wearing a Marvin the Martian Tshirt (Looney Tunes character) reflected in one of the granite stones. Yep, that fat slob is me.
There's also a statue a little ways up the road towards the cotton mill that is dedicated to all the Confederate soldiers from Hunt county who died in the Civil War.
x). On the way, we hit some construction traffic in, as luck would have it, Greenville Texas, which I'd totally forgotten was the home of none other than Audie Murphy, himself! The traffic proved to be a good thing, since it stopped us dead on the Interstate, right next to a convenient off-ramp which allowed us to do a U-turn and head back a mile or so to the memorial (doubles as the Cotton Mill Museum...we decided to skip the museum). If you look close, you can see some idiot wearing a Marvin the Martian Tshirt (Looney Tunes character) reflected in one of the granite stones. Yep, that fat slob is me.There's also a statue a little ways up the road towards the cotton mill that is dedicated to all the Confederate soldiers from Hunt county who died in the Civil War.
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RabidAlien
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A sampling of photos from Broken Bow/Beaver's Bend...we did see three deer while up there, but unfortunately they wandered past our cabin (one coming right down the middle of the gravel drive, between our 4Runner and the porch, the cheeky bastard!) while we were enjoying the hot tub Saturday evening, with nary a camera nearby. 
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vikingBerserker
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Great pics!
Man I need to go fly fishing!
Man I need to go fly fishing!
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RabidAlien
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Spent the morning today with the wife, kiddo, and two of my wife's co-workers (well...co-worker and boss) at the Dallas Arboretum. Lots of pumpkins and other related edibles, flowers were kinda skimpy. Well, it is fall, after all...still, managed to snag a couple of good ones (my wife has all of the family and kiddo pics up on her blog):
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Really REALLY nice shots, all of them. The Pile of Pumpkins is a cool work of light and shadows...well done.
Also nice shots of the memorial, thanks for posting those!
Also nice shots of the memorial, thanks for posting those!
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RabidAlien
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There was a waist-high wicker fence separating the pile of pumpkins (that pile, anyway...there must've been a million gourd-like oddities piled all over the place!) from the hay-bale maze. It was kinda off the main pathway, nobody was trying to get their screaming kid to pose in their itchy Halloween costume, and I thought the shadows were really interesting. Ground was too wet to lay down on, but I still managed to get some funny looks for taking pics without a kid nearby!
evangilder
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Nice shots, RA! You have a good eye for composition.
Good stuff RA!
Aaron Brooks Wolters
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Excellent shots Kirk!! The shot of the sun through the tree is nice. And there is nothing wrong with Marvin.
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RabidAlien
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Thanks, y'all! Jalissa and I went and took a walk around some of the dirt roads that our cabin was built off of (lots of little rent-a-cabins in that particular area), she's the one who initially noticed the tree with the sun peeking out. She was trying for a star-burst effect (you get that when the sun peeks out behind something), as a maintenance van drove by....kicking up a ton of dust. That worked!!!
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Hey, timing is everything! 
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RabidAlien
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CAF's B-29 "Fifi" (they way they've got it painted, the first time I saw a pic of the plane, I thought it said "AA") was flying today out of Meecham Airfield in Fort Worth Texas. They did two flights today, and will do another two flights tomorrow if anyone's in the area (10am and 5pm). $5 donation got us in the gate, and up close and personal with Fifi!
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RabidAlien
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Some more (they also had a trainer and the B-25 "Pacific Prowler" out there)...quite possibly the smallest airshow I've ever seen!
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RabidAlien
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Last set, plus some video my wife took:
DSCN0426.mp4 video by space-monkie - Photobucket
DSCN0427.mp4 video by space-monkie - Photobucket
DSCN0426.mp4 video by space-monkie - Photobucket
DSCN0427.mp4 video by space-monkie - Photobucket
vikingBerserker
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Heck Fifi alone would be worth it, killer shots!
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RabidAlien
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Amen to that, brother!
I'll have to adjust the brightness, but the B&W image of the belly turret, pic#1 in post #95, there's a sign painted on the inside wall of the plane just to the right of the barrel, that says "Danger-->". It was just too good to pass up.
ETA: Weird. Looks fine on my desktop.
I'll have to adjust the brightness, but the B&W image of the belly turret, pic#1 in post #95, there's a sign painted on the inside wall of the plane just to the right of the barrel, that says "Danger-->". It was just too good to pass up.
ETA: Weird. Looks fine on my desktop.
B-17engineer
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Fantastic shots!
