Trafalgar Square pic

Once every 6 months for a blog post - seems a little wrong. Here's the picture you like, Mom.

Truth as it Relates to the Ground

Alex said something the other day that I just wanted to write down:

Being afraid that the truth will hurt is like being afraid that hitting the ground will hurt. The closer you are to it to begin with, the less it will hurt when you hit it.

This didn't seem to fit with his cynic blog, so I thought I'd put it here.

San Diego Trip

Alex shoots video of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo.




Alex is ready for the start of the Shamu Rocks show at SeaWorld.




We drove up Mt. Palomar to see the 200" telescope at the top -- pretty interesting.




The San Diego Automobile Museum has a Tucker on display.



Alex ponders walking to Japan.



Alex and cousin Rex Warden stand with a F9F Panther on the deck of the USS Midway. Rex flew these planes in the Korean War.

Moon Camera

Alex and Ken went to a Cosmosphere members event and Alex held this camera ---





Here is the same camera a few years earlier ---


It's the only camera like this brought back from the moon. The others were left on the moon to save weight.

The camera is the one Alan Shepard used on the moon for Apollo 14 a s seen above.

Last band concert for Alex

Alex won't be taking band next year, so here is a picture taken after the last concert. Sorry it is a bad picture - cellphone camera.

George Pyle Park construction begins

Here are a couple of pictures of crews working on the reconstruction in George W. Pyle Park.

Thanks to Bob Hunter for the pictures.

Views from the Eiffel Tower

Third Installment of Photos

Arc de Triomphe

Statue on Notre Dame

Crown of Thorns on display at Notre Dame

London!

More London and Paris

Next to Notre Dame - Holy Flying Buttresses!

The Dome of Napoleon's Tomb

Some Elgin Marbles posing with Alex and Mary

The canal at the London Zoo

Tube Stop with a nice name

London and Paris

From the Eiffel Tower

At the British Museum

In front of Venus

Musee D'Orsay

With Whistler's Mother

Tricorn Hat

A Couple of Poems by My Favorite Poet

"Poetry is Like a Garden"

Poetry
is like
a garden,
in that you
grow it slowly,
give it plenty of care,
and it will pay you back.
You can enter your produce
in a contest to show its worth, or
you can sell it to others, who may not
appreciate what you have put into it.
But sometimes, though,
the best thing to do,
is tend it yourself,
for yourself,
and let it
heal you.

"Speaking Freely"

Some people will say, and I will agree, that the best way to go about things,
is not to be seen when you don't want to be seen, and avoid all the trouble that brings.

Drawing attention to yourself, you may know, rarely ends with anything good.
In some extreme cases you'd find yourself under the ground in wood.

But then you may say, "Hey, wait a minute! What am I going to do?
I need to get some ideas across, but how, if I listen to you?"

To you I say only one last thing. I think you'll agree with this thought:
Your new ideas may be good for the world, but good for you, they are not.