Fixed and old Picture

I was trying to find some old pictures for my new found cousin Tobey on the Garlick side and came across the picture of my Grandpa with all his siblings. As far as I can tell of all the pictures, this is the only one of all 4 of them. I guess you could say this is about the only time they all got along, but then again if you look at the picture they don't look very happy having their picture taken. I guess not being happy about having your picture taken was a trait I inherited for sure!!!



From Left to Right
Arden - 10 years
Don - 3 years
Vivian - 4 years
Barney - 12 years

Picture taken in 1926

The Big Rock

The Story of the Big Rock that traveled 105 miles from Riverside to Los Angles to become an art piece. The streets of Long Beach will be used to transport a 340-ton, 21-and-a-half-foot-high rock from a quarry in Riverside to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "A lot of planning went into this move to ensure safety and prevent any damage," Mayor Bob Foster said. "We're also planning on having some fun with the rock while it's parked in Long Beach on Wednesday, March 7." A custom-built transporter with 196 wheels will be used to prevent road damage, and travel will only occur at night with a maximum speed of 8 mph. The safest route was selected to include bridges and roadways that were built to higher strength standards and have higher overhead clearances for bridges and wires. No public monies will be used for the transport. Events include an "I Want to Rock With You" party from noon to 4 pm with a DJ playing songs that feature "rock" in the title, food, live artists, the Knolls Ranger, river rock decorating, photo ops with the rock, and more.

All of this for a art piece called "levitated Mass"...like I really want to walk under this big rock in Southern California when an earthquake could happen at any time!!! Will see how it turns out so stay tune for pictures. I guess I was way more impressed with the trailer that they built to move the thing.

Mars and Venus

These two planets are closer to Earth right now. Its pretty cool to look up in the sky and see these two bright lights. I didn't get the bigger camera out and this picture is actually taken through the sunroof of my truck with my cell phone. Not too bad. I guess this isn't going to happen again till at least 2016 and I can't remember if they said it was going to be this close.

The brighter dot is Mars and the not so bright one is Venus.

Random Pictures

So I was looking at pictures I have downloaded and haven't done anything with so I decided to post a few random pictures from last year that I never did a post about.



This is smoke from one of the wild fires back in September, yes totally using a zoom lens, never too close to them, occasionally we will get ash from the fires.



Not bad taken from the truck while I was driving!!! Yes, I know I'm talented...but honestly I was at a traffic light. Perfect position and timing.



My little Desmond learning how to be a cat instead of a Dog. He saw the others playing in the box and had to try it out as well. He's finally found his cat voice instead of his dog growl.



and better late then never, picture of my 42 birthday cake made by Michael and no NO smoke alarms went off with the lighting of the candles!!!!