Perfect Picnic Spot

Sunning by the Sea. Isala del Giglio, Tuscany, Italy

(Setting courtesy of Costa Concordia, Carnival Cruise Line)

Norman Schwartzkopf

Stormin' Norman

R. I. P.

Merry Christmas 2012

An all-time favorite:
http://youtu.be/k9ZWNxM-r3M

Thanks, Bing.
(The deepest voice in pop music ever!)

Confused

Hey, anyone. You've got to help me here.

No, I'm serious. Help.

:)

An earlier, easier time

Norman Rockwell, 1956

Winter sports

are taking rather strange forms in this technological age.

But, it's still fun for the kids.

Find your favorite -

- city in the USA

(click to enlarge)

Thank you, NASA. :)

December 7, 1941

Ah, December 7th. How well I remember that fateful Sunday 1941 noon in Bethesda, Maryland. Arturo Toscanini was conducting the New York Symphony on the radio, and I was taking my after-lunch nap upstairs. (I still do that, when I can, and often, these days, I can.)
Then, the music stopped and I heard voices on the radio. My father came into the room, told me to come downstairs with him to listen. He said to me, "You must hear this. Your future wife's Navy has bombed our Navy in Hawaii." Of course, DW#1 hadn't been born yet, but you get the point.

 

My father was wise beyond his time.

Tonight's dessert

Perhaps we have too much time on our hands...

"He used to be handsome"

says my dear roommate.

 

 I say, perhaps I had a few more strands of hair, but my ears were way big from the beginning!

:)

You have to be really old. . .

. . .(like me) to remember the 1939 World's Fair with its iconic Trylon and Perisphere.

But, lo! In our new Century, in the year 2012, we now have our own iconic version of the political President Trylon and Governor Perisphere:

(H/T:Lucianne)

I'm a genius!

Pizza Scissors

A short engineering career

Now please gaze upon the proximate cause of the premature retirement of a foundation engineer in the City of Shanghai earlier this year.

Not an inspection problem -

Rather, a storm-preparation failure.

 

There will be lawsuits, just 'cause that's the way we do things.

Another cloud pic. . .

This really is not fun for the East Coast and the upper Midwest.

Weather shot

Sunday evening:

Awesome energy.

Pierce County Quandary

Pierce County, Washington

Very Bad Positioning

I get it. It's a drumset! From Microsoft!

http://youtu.be/8mSckyoAMHg

What's that odor?

Swear to Heaven, Ref. It wasn't me!