https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=205131835882428706345.0004c32f3b1acd3e0061c&msa=0&ll=27.807498,-97.089272&spn=0.20741,0.444603 The whole experience, beginning to end. It takes 8 minutes. I just set the camera down as a dash-cam to catch the loading, crossing, and unloading. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhaqYwJt2s
I’m so embarrassed
We watched a Romantic Comedy….. and enjoyed it! Crazy, Stupid, Love. Steve Carell. No car chases. No crashes. No explosions. Just a movie about people. Simple. Silly. Charming.
Exchanging emails
With brother Bill this morning got me to thinking. When I was in Southeast Asia in the 60s, we referred to anything outside of where we were as the “World”. We were totally isolated. The only radio was the Armed Forces Network. There was no television. The cost of a long-distance phone call from that far away was prohibitive. After months there, and then years, we could talk about when we got back to the World, but in the meantime, we didn’t really know anything about it. The World became a magical mythical place. How times have changed. As Bill is settling down in the evening in Thailand or Cambodia, or Indonesia; wherever he happens to be at the moment, he pops off a couple emails. A brother just starting the day back in the World answers and a chat ensues. It could be any of us in any state. On opposite sides of the globe, we’re still in immediate contact. At worst, an email won’t be read for a few hours until someone wakes up. I’m sure it still feels far away to Bill, who actually had to cover the miles to get there, but I don’t think it’s nearly as far away as it used to be.
Summer Solstice
High Noon. That would come at about 1pm this time of year, right (thanks to daylight savings time)? If we were about 300 miles south, we’d be right on the Tropic of Cancer, the northernmost latitude at which the sun appears directly overhead at its zenith. At high noon, look at a vertical post in the sun on the longest day of the year. I haven’t tested the theory, but the amount of shadow on the north side of the post should be a measure of how far you are from the northern edge of the tropics. This is a picture of a north-facing 8 foot fence with a 2 inch shadow here.
We’re on the ragged edge.
We’re on the ragged edge. Our little palm
Our little palm tree is growing up.
It bloomed for the first time. It’s the first one to mature. Tiny little flowers on long stalks.
It’s a little messy underneath the tree, but we’re so proud.
It bloomed for the first time. It’s the first one to mature. Tiny little flowers on long stalks. It’s a little messy underneath the tree, but we’re so proud.