Happy Birthday Verna
Happy birthday baby - I love you!
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Archive for December, 2007
Moon and Mars
In a rare astronomical encounter, the full moon rose less than 2° away from planet Mars tonight. I took this photo showing the event - I had to overexpose the moon so that Mars would show up. Verna and I looked at this through the binoculars and it was spectacular.
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Flyin’ Brass
When I take pictures of Verna at the shooting range, once in a while I get hit by a spent shell. This one missed me, but the camera captured it in mid-flight.
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Drake’s First Christmas
Last night, I finished wrapping up Christmas presents for our extended family. I always see to it that each of the kids get something from us.
This afternoon, we ventured out into holiday traffic to drop the gifts off with my sister. When we got there, the newest family member, Drake, was in a visiting mood.
Drake’s six months old now, and this will be his first Christmas. His brother, Jayden, was also there happily getting a blue tongue from a blueberry candy cane I brought.
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Pink Flamingo Christmas Tree
Finishing up a little pre-Christmas shopping, we were in the old downtown district for some last-minute shopping. At one point, we went into an antique shop where this interesting Christmas tree was on display. Pink tree with pink flamingo light string and pink flamingo ornaments.
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Candy Canes
Nobody here really consumes these, they are for decoration and accent purposes - and for taking pictures like this.
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More Poinsettias
Poinsettias are flowers native to the Pacific coast of America, some parts of central southern Mexico, and a few localities in Guatemala. They are named after Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first United States Ambassador to Mexico, who introduced the plant in the U.S. in 1825.
Alternative names for the poinsettia are Mexican flame leaf, Christmas star, Winter rose, Noche Buena and Pascua.
I snapped this at Lowe’s last weekend - click to enlarge.
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