MMX 120 Met Life
It’s the day before the Kentucky Derby. The big race today at Churchill Downs is called the Kentucky Oaks. The Met Life dirigible was grounded for most of the day at Bowman Field due to winds gusting to 28 knots. Look closely and you can see a worker at the very front of the blimp.
MMX 116 Hammock Time
It finally warmed up enough to spend a little quality time in the back yard, doing nothing. Actually I had just finished mowing the yard and I was enjoying the breeze.
MMX 115
Scrappy, in her favorite place in the back yard. She is sitting next to me on the hammock. We call her pirate dog!
MMX 114 Storm Clouds
This is what the sky looked like on my drive home.
This is what the radar was showing. Luckily for us, the line of storms broke up before it got to the city. It’s amazing how storms break up before they get to the city. The magic of the Ohio Valley.
Project 365 catch-up Post
Three days, one blog post.
MMX 111 Dry Dock. A boat found dry docked in the firehouse.
MMX 112 What can I say, I like clouds.
MMX 113 The fire station I am riding out of today.
MMX 109 Infrared Hospital
Just another iPhone photo. I used CameraBag app to simulate infrared film.
MMX 106 C-130
A C-130 from the Wyoming Air National Guard lands at SDF after A display in the Thunder Over Louisville air show.
Warbirds at Sun N Fun
Sun N Fun is a spring break event for pilots and aviation enthusiasts. The event is held every year in Lakeland, Florida at the Lakeland Airport. The fly-in event begins on Tuesday and they have an air show on Saturday. Many different planes are available for viewing including historic aircraft, warbirds, military planes, experimental planes, sea planes (they even had a splash-in event for the sea planes on Friday). The Sun N Fun event marks the begining of the spring & summer air show season and fly-in events like Oshkosh.
B-25H Barbie III. The H model has four 50mm guns on the nose and one 75mm canon also.
Barbie III’s nose guns
P-40 Suzy.
Latitude Dancer. I don’t know what model plane this is, but I remember it was used to transport the high ranking officers in the Air Force in WWII.
C-47 Spooky
C-47 Tico Belle
MMX 105 Main Street
I used to spend most of my time here. I used to drive vehicles around this park. This used to be my second home.
MMX 104 Tiny Buddha
My friend Mike sits in the meditation garden of Florida Southern College. While the college is known for it’s Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, it has a very nice area for meditation.
MMX 103 Osprey
Our friend took us to Lake Parker in Lakeland, FL this evening. Lots of bird activity, and even a few alligators. This Osprey was one of three looking for evening meal. He/She missed on this run, but I was lucky enough to get a shot.
Today we returned to the place we met. Well almost. We spent time with our friend in Epcot & Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort. We were allowed a special treat, a VIP seating for the Illuminations: Reflections of Earth fireworks show.
MMX 101 Clouds roll in
We spent the day on the gulf coast today. Mostly in Citrus County where we went to the Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park. We walked around and saw manatees, alligators, panthers, all sorts of birds and even a hippo. This image was taken in Fort Island near Crystal River. We drove over eighty miles, and got a ton of bug bites (these things reminded me of the socttish midges. Nasty little creatures). Tomorrow, Disney.
MMX 100 Palmetto
You can thank my wife for this photo also. I took the image, but I was doing it for her. We were walking a trail in the Ocala National Forest. We have noticed a lot of burned out areas in the Forest, and this trail had a few. My wife liked the new palmetto leaves growing with the dead ones still attached. She said she could not get the image she wanted, so I offered to give it a try. With out little Olympus C765 I got a decent shot. Probably the best photo I took all day.
MMX 099 Big Ol’ Jet Airliner
Unlike Steve Miller and his band, I was hoping the airliner would take me far from my home. We are officially on vacation (Holiday for those outside the States). With the exception of the past day, I hope to keep taking a photo every day.
MMX 098 A little help
I just realized that I failed to take a photo on April 08. So I enlisted (with out her knowledge) the help of my lovely wife. We all need a little help now and then, so here is a photo she took of me today (10 April 2010). It will have to serve as place holder until I can invent the time machine and go back to the eighth and take a photo. It was a busy day at work and I was lacking sleep. Thanks, wifey for the helping hand!
MMX 097 Flower
Just playing with the sigma 105mm macro lens. Somewhere along the way I’ve messed up the day numbers. I will try to correct this later.
Joel Neild Photography 