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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Looking at Planes

Looking at planes at the Santa Barbara airport. Photo by Dillon Kenyon

Looking at Trucks


Summerland Cafe
Photo taken by Dillon

Studying



Bruce, August 2010

Emerson and table
















Tall enough to see over the top Fall 2010

Yellow Stone Creek

A postcard view of Yellow Stone Creek fall of 2009

Clouds Over Yellow Stone


Yellow Stone fall 2009

Grandmother and Grandson

A grandmother brings her
grandson to the Rotary booth
in Bareilly India for a Polio Plus
innoculation.
Plus meaning other vacines
will be administered at the same
time.

Cloudburst

2008 Thunderstorm in Ft Morgan, Colo. the storm momentarily flooded the streets and shut down the interstate.

After the war

This was a photo from my
iphone that I took on top
of Flag Staff Mountain at
Artist Point. Maud, Bruce
and Nicki.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Storm cloud over Ft Collins

  Took this in the summer of 2008 at the same time that the tornados 
were wrecking havoc a few miles down the road in Windsor, Colorado.

Shoes



Though sandals were the norm,
natty shoes of all kinds
were in evidence.

The village says goodbye










Really, I could have stayed here awhile.

Children in a fishing village
















First morning that we set out in the Sundarban we had toload up on fish and ammunition. We got a skiff from our boat and motored up a channel. We stopped at this village. The adults and children greeted us warmly and we began to realize this would be the case every where.

This is a very primitive village. The little electricity that they have comes from a small generator. The village is located at sea level, as is most of the country. Even though we are some hundred miles from the sea the tides bring the water level to just a few feet below the village. We all wondered what it was like here, for these children when a typhoon hits and the level of the ocean raises dramatically.

The Sundarban is a tidal swamp. The worlds largest Mangrove forest. Essentially a vast river delta, as is most of Bangladesh.

Convenience Store

















We crossed the Ganges on our way to the Sundarban
on a gigantic ferry loaded with dozens of heavy duty
cargo trucks. We were on a first class bus from
Dhaka. We got out of the bus and squeezed down the
canyons between these vehicles, went up the thin stairs
to the observation deck where we had tea and could
purchased additional supplies.


Night traffic

Gulshan, a Dhaka, BD suburb, 'normal' traffic is so 
congested that we rarely drive faster than 25mph. 
That is why and it is because of, the types of transportation
that are the norm in this city. Additionally, because of
the speed of traffic, accidents are few and usually
not injurious to the drivers.


Beggar Child in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Emerson and Molly


Emer

The lonely trip back














This fire fighting bomber is on it's return leg after dropping 
a load of fire retardant on what would become the most
expensive fire ever fought in the state of Colorado. 167 homes lost, 0 lives lost!

Black Widow

The Black Widow was on an old pot in our backyard in Ojai

Sea Lions, Anacapa Island, Ca










On a kayak trip with Robert Evans to Anacapa Island