Sunday, December 27, 2015

Final Images from White Rock

The close of 2015 is coming up quickly. With the turn in the weather and the cold setting in finally, this will most likely be my last images from the lake for 2015. For sure. It's been a good year for the goal has been to reduce the amount of medication ordered up because of the old ticker. The reports from the cardio-boss man have been good. The progress has been good because of the long cardio walks with the camera in hand, the celery sticks laced with peanut butter in the ditch, a few crackers (unsalted) for the remaining peanut butter from the two tablespoon limit and a banana. Sitting at the picnic tables at Dreyfuss Club, or up at the stone patio on the high road of Sunset Bay or one of the shelter houses overlooking the lake on the hot days of summer  has paid off health wise. 

This summer saw an early  morning sunrise in August, a couple of unreal sunsets in December and  three trips a week around the lake in between. There has been some really nice people who think a lot like me. There are a few more that would rather have me think like them. But as my old family physician, who grew up in New Orleans and is buried there today, would tell my mom and me," you listen to what people say and when they go home, you do as you damn well please."  Stress has never been a problem for me probably as a result of, and thereafter  listening to,  those lectures. Mom sat in the chair in the examining room and I sat on the paper-roll table as my doctor delivered those words, not once, but many times while growing up.

It is hoped that everyone have a safe and happy New Year 2016. Hopefully, ticker and pacemaker willing, I'll see you again in the spring. Meanwhile, enjoy the images here while I clean up the construction mess on the website in the bleakness of winter.

A river.

Two coccinella magnifica

A corporate jet on ILS Approach

Friday, December 25, 2015

Eagles at White Rock in February 2013

February 2013 Pair of Bald Eagles Fishing
February 2013 was my first sighting of the pair of bald eagles at White Rock Lake. With love for nature, I did not hold back my sightings and have talked about the eagles steadily since 2013.Contrary to what is being spread around about me misrepresenting or giving out bad information,the only reason I dug into the archive to find there images was the fact that I have seen plenty of smoke screens in my 70 years and it seems that those who hope to discredit my sighting have had  a nerve struck and they (men and women alike) feel their little grip on, and having to share their wildlife with, an ever increasing population of Metroplex nature lovers slipping out of their grasp.

Nesting Pair of Bald Eagles over White Rock Lake on February,2013

February,2013 at the Dam
Now, having said that, I can go back to enjoying the nature and wildlife of White Rock Lake.

26Dec2015: edit for punctuation clarity.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Museum of Tomorrow

While Dallas does have some noted buildings built by world famous architects, our latest architect with his second structure still under construction at present Santiago Calatrava has a masterpiece in Rio de Janiero. The Dallas City Hall and The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center were designed by I.M. Pei. Santiago Calatrava designed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and did redesign his original design work on the Margaret McDermott Bridge currently  under construction. But this week, was the opening of Calatrava's  Magnum Opus in my opinion. It is the new Museu do Amanha (Museum of Tomorrow) in Rio de Janeiro on December 19th. The site is in the old port section of Rio and is part of a major redevelopment program in the area. I have seen the area personally on my first trip to Brazil many years ago. It is an amazing work of design and while I am proud to talk about the Arts District in Dallas and what it has to offer, I did a bit of work figuring out just how big this new Museu is. By loose calculations, the entire arts district could be placed in one third of this structure. The transformation from the old site to this new structure raises the bar for other cities in this old world if they want to compete for tomorrow because tomorrow has arrived on yet another continent of the Americas.

For those of you that want to see an image of the structure, you can search for the Museu do Amanha in Rio. Or, you can go to Alamy and enter in the search box FA1AG5 to bring up the image. I just tried it and it worked. Alamy.com  and enter FA1AG5 (That is FAone AGfive) to be clear.

For those of you who do not want to see Calatrava's non-bridge work, I have some pelicans,geese and ducks for you.
The angle is a duck having just had a drink tilting his head upward.

The pelicans can be so funny to watch.

Two migratory geese fighting. It lasted a pretty long time.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Last Minute Shopping!


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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Some of You Have Ask

Some of you have ask about how you can view our live news feed images. First and foremost: Thank You!!  But, it's not really that difficult. So, here is an easy way to learn how to do this remembering two things.
1. There are two options. the first option will allow you to view and search the live news feed.
2. The second option allows you to view our stock images where our news feed images and stock are archived. The news feed images rotate off after 48-hours. Where do they go? They go into the submitters archive stock image portfolio, which can be searched afterwards as well.

Going to the live news feed only.

Click on anywhere within the black box with a lower case 'a' or the word 'alamy'. That opens into a new window. When it does. click on the black 'a' or inside the black box again. It opens to the alamy home page. You will see a search bar with a magnifier at the right hand side. You will also see in the search bar the words by that magnifier that says 'see images'. click that and when it opens scroll down to the bottom where it says 'see live images'. You are there!! when it opens again, start at the top of page one and scroll down. The images begin to rotate off immediately as other images are added and force the current images down to page 2 or 3 or 4 or sometimes 5 then off the rotation.


If you want to see our stock images or news feeds that are archived 

To the right of the black 'a' box is also a search bar. Above that search bar are the words: 'dallaspaparazzo.com. If you click that link on, you will by-pass the live news feed and go directly to our archived images where are nearing 1300 images at present.


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Friday, December 18, 2015

White Rock Talents

Many, many times, the winds echo my words that there is always something different happening at White Rock. Today, was no exception. When is the last time you saw a tightrope walker practice? With the weather being almost perfect for a very late fall day, here is one of those surprises.

At the same time, I have been photographing since August, the leaves of the White Rock Sycamore  trees and even finding some of the largest leaves that I have ever seen. Yesterday, another record leaf was found that topped the "then recorder holder" at 9 1/2 inches by 11 and one quarter. Yesterdays was over 14-inches by 13-inches. When it finally relaxes and the folded over tips can be measured, it will be larger, no doubt.

Here is today's finds.
Practice makes perfect

The sycamore leaves are hanging on and producing excellent displays for very late fall.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Shortest Day Approaches

It is a true statement:" Time waits for no man." Where it goes is an enigma for sure. Winter begins in less than a week. Christmas Day comes in ten days. New Years arrives in just over two weeks. It makes no matter whether I'm ready or not, so the past few days found me at the lake and sitting at a picnic table with my health snack. I got my cardio walk in and just enjoyed the nearly perfect weather. That part changes tomorrow as the first of several cold fronts arrives and kicks the temps back down to a more normal winter level right on time.

Two weeks ago, I watched the cormorants begin flocking and flying their 'V' formations over the lake. They have been happy campers but know with their keen circadian rhythm that the coldest weather this season is about to arrive. Currently, when the cormorants or pelicans or sea gulls or egrets can't been seen, I can usually find them in their second or even third place were they hang out because of the change in fish whereabouts. In a way, they are just like us. They are creatures of habit. But the call of the wild beckons to fly south. They will be back in the spring after they disappear and can not be found in any of their favorite trees or log branches in the water.

A feather floats with the leaves on the water's surface.

A man walks his dog near Winfrey Point

White Rock Rowing Club sorts gear on one of the club's docks.
Click on any picture to enlarge. It's okay. You won't break anything.

Friday, December 11, 2015

Christmas at the National Cemetery

Thursday, my car headed in the direction of the National Cemetery, between I-20 and I-30. Actually, I visit the cemetery every December. It is a somber and sobering experience. Somehow, the annual laying of the wreaths on each grave is planned for this Saturday, December 12th. I missed it by two days. Some families go ahead and put the wreaths down themselves. There were a few graves that had the wreaths already. I was struck at how brown the grass was all over. It's just gone dormant and has not actually died. The green wreaths stand out against the gray stones and the brown grass.

After leaving the cemetery, it was on to Founder's Plaza at DFW International Airport. Shooting the Fresnel Lens on the official FAA beacon  that every airport is required to have operating  between civil dusk and civil dawn. Of course, it can only be shot during those times when it is operational.  There were some technical issues with the camera again. It's always low light shutter speeds that give the most problem, even though the settings are made according to the manual. Something else to work on during the upcoming winter waiting for the first snow storm or ice storm!

The National Cemetery for Dallas Ft. Worth

It's an annual trip for me. I only lost one friend in Viet Nam. My Dad is buried in a National Cemetery in Little Rock.

The Fresnel Lens on the official FAA Beacon at DFW International. This is it!

Saturday, December 5, 2015

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 Today was yet another amazing day. Yesterday, an image shot was a test. Not knowing how it would come out in editing, many times, images are shot this way, then go back and shoot the subject from all kinds of angles and light conditions. So while out today after eating at In N Out, it was off to re shoot this amazing pattern that is only available at a certain latitudes. Light hitting it at another latitude will not produce this pattern. There was a test run on the other locations run yesterday and then re-tested today. As anticipated, only one latitude would allow the sunlight to create this pattern. It's like a rainbow. Light must hit crystals of ice or raindrops at exactly 12 degrees from where you are standing in order that you see the rainbow. If the light does not hit the ice crystals or rain drops at exactly 12 degrees to you, you will not see a rainbow. This pattern is much the same as a rainbow for light with one exception, wind can cause the panel to move up and down slightly and it will change the pattern some but the basic pattern is still there.

As stated before, light is an amazing thing when shooting. The low level angles of light this time of year is like no other and the enjoyment of shooting in fall light is my most favorite time of the year.

Speaking of rainbows, ice crystals were aloft today at about 22,000 feet. And, there was a rainbow prism over Sunset Bay's dock. It also produced an amazing sunset.
The cloud deck is high level ice crystals from upper level moisture streaming into North Texas says the dean of Dallas weather forecast.

The dark clouds is visible moisture aloft

This was about 10 minutes after the sun set. The light is coming under the clouds and producing the colorful hour of civil dusk.

Friday, December 4, 2015

Ever Get A Song In Your Head And Can't Get It Out?

After spending four days in the house during the flooding rains of Thanksgiving, when the weather broke, cabin fever was in the race for the front door. Now, with twice as many days of almost perfect fall weather for the next ten days, my cardio walks have increased past the midway mark of the pivot point scale of zero to 10. Today, was one of those days when it was just a delight to be out walking.

 On the return trip to the parking area, I got a chance to sit down on a bench and look at the skyline of downtown Dallas some eight miles in the distance. The air was clear and bright and the outline of the buildings was sharp and crisp for a change.  As I sat on the bench listening to the sounds of the lake and watching planes take off over downtown from Love Field, ATC had the airports back on their normal flight approach from the north.

 Then eureka points began to  spring forth in those moments of content and white noise. My brain was once again thinking and it felt good. Like a computer printer, item after item was popping across my nerve endings like pages in the printers collection hopper. The top item was a bit of a revelation and I had to stop and think about that for a minute before thinking to my self that the EP was very much correct. It has been 10-years since I have decorated for Christmas. Ten Years! The second EP that popped up was that although I had not decorated like I once did, the memories of when I did were still deep in my heart and will always be there, whether I resume decorating for the holidays or not.

That thought genesis lies in the fact that there has been so many pictures taken at the dam and spillways, the past week,  the association of water over the dam had triggered that EP. As the afternoon passed and the joy of being out in the midst of nature, suggested to me that there were red grapes and a banana in my tote bag in the car, and that the return trip home would be paused long enough for a short list of staples needed from the grocery store.

On the way to the grocery, first it was a whistling, then it was singing the lyrics to the old
Tom Leher's Lyrics to Polution 
I could not get that song out of my head. You can probably figure out hold many years it's been since I bought that old 33 1/3 LP. My Lord! where has the time gone?

Clear Skies of Downtown 8-miles in the distance.

The seagull was grabbing the minnows just below the water's surface.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

The Sun Returned

With the rain out of here, the sun was out for the first time since Thanksgiving Day. Even though the light north wind was a bit cutting at times, it still was a delightful day to get the cardio walk in and
The tidal pool looks placid again.

Birds were every where in the trees.

The beaver several days ago. See the tail----it's for sure, a beaver.


take a few pictures.

The storm with over eight-inches of rain was hard on the beaver population. Four beavers were killed. The city parks service picked up the last one this afternoon. I really did appreciate the help that I got from  Parks and Recreation to take care of the one that was in a very populated spot for visitors. Thanks to the guys at the City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department for their help. Two were killed crossing 78 at San Rafael;one on the Dixon Creek crossing of Buckner and the fourth washed up into the parking area at Sunset Bay. I had just taken a picture of one going up the channel into the old fish hatchery just before the storms hit. I've been looking for him but haven't seen him again. I fear the worse outcome with the recent outcome from confirmed deaths.

The water flow has really slowed down. The grass caught on top of the new USGS automated water gauge is still funny. I'll call the field office and find out how they report that much water flow.




Saturday, November 28, 2015

Interchangeable Side Panels


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What Day Is It?

It's Saturday, the Holy Day of Obligation. GO BLUE!     Update:  Michigan lost. College   Football has changed.
Monk Parots


More Monk Parots

American White Pelicans stop from their nesting grounds in Montana on their way to Central and South America. They don't fly over open ocean, however.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Still Shooting Leaves

Although some of the trees are now devoid of leaves, it was a driving force to continued to shoot fall leaves with such amazing colors. The weather up until today has been awesome and perfect to be out walking with camera in-hand.

Thanksgiving, however was a day of rest and cooking. Yes, my chef skills still manage to cook a full Thanksgiving meal. Turkey, dressing and the sides. The cranberry sauce was passed on this year. It was more difficult to find fresh cranberries and cranberry from a can is a cardinal sin. So, with the dressing and turkey, the condiment was huckleberry preserves this year and it was just fine; might have re-kindled an old tradition again.

So, Wednesday, seems to be the very last day to shoot leaves this season. With the strong winds and soaking rains the leaves are pretty much coming down with this round of weather-induced  conditions. Over the past week alone, over a thousand images have been cataloged for this season of color in the Dallas area. The focus has been on sycamore trees until Wednesday when I found some oaks that were orange and red. And, there was a discovery of a totally new stand of sycamore trees that produced excellent results.

It is to be hoped that y'all all had a wonderful Thanksgiving in whatever way was meaningful to each of you. Here are a few of those images from Wednesday. It seems that there might be a second posting just to include the full range. Right now, it's all depends on who much time can be mustered away from editing to actually do the post.

Seldom seen in Texas. It reminds me of the Maples in the Great Lakes area. The reds have always been a favorite.

The textures and colors are amazing

The new stand of Sycamores found





Tuesday, November 24, 2015

A Performance of Note

Camille Saint Saens and his Carnival of Animals
George Frideric Handel's Water Music

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's  Swan Lake Ballet
 Today's guest performers were Pelecaniformers under the baton of Maestro Pelecanus erythrohynchos

Monday, November 23, 2015

The Big One!

Most of the past few months has been focused on the subject matter of  leaves. In fact, there were a few post  written about it on this blog. It's not an exciting subject to some, but overall, it is key subject matter from the most basic definition of landscapes.

With the flooding rains in May, it was just a give me that the foliage was going to be super this fall and it was hoped  that the colors would survive the later returning drought after the flooding rains of the spring. One never knows what will developed. All one can do is to base future events outcomes  on past events of weather during a season based on  seasonal averages. Sometimes it works. Other times, the odds favor the house (mother nature).

While last week was pretty much the end of leaf hunting, Murphy's Law always plays its hand late. Today, the king of leaves turned up almost right under my foot. Guessing, it had to be 8 1/2 inches across and 6-inches in the stem to tip width. When I had put the tape measure to it, it turned out the be 11 1/2 inches across and 7-inches stem to tip. It sure was the largest sycamore tree leaf that I have ever found.

With 2-4 inches of rain, wind and another cold front due from Thanksgiving thru Saturday,  Most likely, the colors will fall for sure with this weather system. Some of the bright colors have already dimmed a bit since the last threat following last Monday's rain and wind. This bout will surely bring the leaves down and the color will be gone for another season.

I've made a third trip to one tree to capture the most unusual bark that I have seen. Today, I had just shot a couple of images  to see how the lighting was going to come out, but I have decided that it's not the lighting so much or all the normal things that jinks an image in a technical way. This trouble in capturing the bark as it really looks is in the tree. The tree is not ready to reveal its true beauty just yet. So, if I have to go back four time or five or even six times, As a photographer, it's worth that effort to catch the true beauty of another living thing--the subject tree.

While I almost forgot to shoot the tree that produced the massive leaf, It is within itself an unusual tree that I had not noticed until today. It's a sycamore that was hiding right in the middle of the ring of sycamores that I had been shooting this month. I'm always amazed at nature.
11 1/2 inches by 7-inches

The tallest tree is the sycamore that has been hiding in plain sight and produced the massive leaf.
Katie, the Mute Swan at White Rock Lake, that was so sick, seems to be enjoying her normal quality of life once again.

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Bullet Trains

Having traveled both The Lake Shore Limited between Boston and Chicago along the Great Lakes and The California Zephyr between Chicago and Emeryville, California  about three decades ago, I became a fan of Amtrak as a passenger rail service immediately. Since then, I have wanted to ride the rails again. I love riding the TRE and DART but not to the extent a high-speed trip would be like. Given the choice of going by plane or by train, the choice will always be rail over plane today.

Recently, it was announced that the TRE, or Trinity Railways Express, would be busy putting a TRE-type train into Terminal A or B at DFW International. The switch off the Dart light rail line is already in place on the way into terminal A. It will connect Ft. Worth to DFW via the TRE directly as DART has done already with Terminal A in connecting Dallas with DFW with light rail.

In the meantime, The FEC or Florida East Coast Industries, the parent of Florida East Coast Railroads announced that with state and private money, they would begin building a high-speed train between Miami and Orlando, running between 79 and 125 MPH over upgraded tracks the FEC already owns, operates and manages. It must be pointed out here, as well, that Florida Power and Light already owns and runs the largest windmill farm in the US here in Texas. In short, the energy derived from Texas wind is controlled by Florida Power and/or the biforcated-biforcated businesses that fall under that umbrella. Soon, they will top us as a high-speed rail route in their state while Texans are still discussing the ins and outs of why not to go ahead with the project.

That brings me to the crux of this post. Texas has been planning and talking about the Bullet Train between Houston and Dallas that would truly be a bullet train--the same as the Japanese shinkansen that runs between Tokyo and Kyoto currently at about 215 MPH.  No more than 24 hours after the media aired the story, fellow Texans against the train were stirring the pot with all kinds of negative instruments laid out ready to cut the threads the Train planners were holding up to be another economic boom for Texas.

First and foremost, these Texans, as loyal as they are, need to put the state as a whole above their self-centered interest and get this train built. Already Texas is looking to be number three behind Florida and California instead of being the leader of high speed rail for the next generation of Texans.Which ironically would be the grandchildren of those that want to stop the progress.

Florida, on the All aboard Florida website have already posted that  their service begins in 2017. And least we forget that the original high speed is the east coast route of Amtrak's Acela, which FEC plans to equal in their Miami to Orlando run.

And, as Vice-President Biden just stated on his trip to Dallas, that you can do all you can do to get new business growth brought to Texas but once they are here, if you don't have the things like a high-speed rail, you are not going to keep those businesses here in the state of Texas.  He is soooooo right!
The TRE inbound to Irving Station

TRE on its way to Ft. Worth. Seeing this at DFW Terminal A or B will absolutely get the word out to the rest of the world that Dallas means business in a First Class Way

You want to see an economic engine at work, just imagine a 215 MPH bullet train from Houston pulling into South Side on Lamar Station by 2018 tops!


Thursday, November 19, 2015

Frost on the Pumpkin Sunday

It looks like Sunday morning will be a time to get up early and go looking for that first frost. It's one of those things that can be a boon or a bust. Still, making the effort must be made if any shots are obtained at all.

In the mean while,  today was to end the hunt for those magical leaves of distinction. Most of the big ones have now fallen long ago and been crushed by foot traffic or bike traffic or tires pressed up against the curbs. There isn't much in open fields as the wind this past Sunday night pretty much carried those miles and miles away. There was some luck finding a few nice ones, however. I started around the first of September so the hunt has been on-going until today. Besides--it's Michigan/Ohio State weekend coming up next weekend  and the camera will be in the bag that day for sure. This coming weekend before Thanksgiving will be pretty much an indoor kitchen event. The day after Thanksgiving will be slow, but then....as broadcaster Bob Ufer has said for years: "Michigan football is a religion  and Saturday is the Holy Day of Obligation".


A silhouette of a crow. Note the absence of leaves!





Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Peak Colors Stand

Well, even with the heavy rains overnight and gale winds at times, the colors at White Rock withstood the night. Although there was evidence of standing water in the low areas and leaves everywhere, the colors were full and bright.

It took a search for where the birds had gone. A few mallards were found swimming in the standing water at Preservation Grove and the stone tables. The pelicans were up at a fairly good altitude riding the wind currents.

There were more people at the spillway for obvious reasons. The waters were in a mad rush over the upper spillway. Down the spillway run and into all three channels in the flood basin continued to carry water where it rushed over  the step down spillways nearly as fast as the upper spillway rush. White Rock Creek on its way to meet the Trinity was full and the currents were swift.

All in all, nature gave us a few more days to observe the beautiful colors over the upcoming weekend before the growing season gets stopped with the first frost maybe next week. In the meantime, here are a couple of shots from the afternoon beauty.
The White Rock Mist

Even the beaver was packing away twigs for food later.

At times it really got misty. It looked like smoke a couple of times.

Plenty of colors left.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Peak Colors Might Get Wiped Out

Peak colors are here if the wind and rain doesn't strip the trees come Monday. In that case peak color week was yesterday!

The past week has been some of the best fall weather that I have seen in years. The progression of the fall color change starts in Canada and moves south about 20 miles per day. By the time it hits Texas it's usually--yep! November-- and with drought years, it just isn't like it is up north. Still, in years where rain falls at the right time, even in drought years, the colors have a chance to shine.

As most already know, it's been an exceptional year for rain. Even if we get our normal rain fall in November and December, we will break a record for yearly rain fall. Crazy! But, we needed the rain with the drought. My trees on the porch were highly stressed and I still water them a gallon of water a day. But, come spring, one will see the trees that really stressed because of the drought when they produce no new buds and are standing firewood.

In the past week alone, my camera counter has wracked up a total of some 500 images taken.This year's focus was on leaves. Like the old basketball cliche: nothing but net, pretty much, my mantra has been nothing but leaves. Well, 95 percent leaves. There are a few pelicans in there; a business fire in Garland, a train or two and some lens adjustments (those don't count). Live news feeds always take top priority. A doctor's appointment and a few trips to the drugstore and grocery and gas rounded out the week.

Yesterday was just that perfect day. Some of the test areas were revisited and nice clean shots came about from the initial ones that were a bit out of focus. Going back to re shoot what I have done already from my projects list isn't something I like to do as a general rule. It cost the same to get a the shot but that cost is doubled from the first trip. So even if you do sell an image as stock, you can wipe out income from stock very quickly. It takes a long time for most to realize that it's all about numbers. As much as you want the numbers to roll in-- if the numbers are not there, there is no number at all. It's negative numbers and those are not good, even as a hobby. You have to learn to say "no" and to know when to cave in to sitting at the desk editing old images a second time or even a third thing to squeeze all you can get out of them. That---is where the money is if there is any money at all!

You may have read my article about  selling an image for $0.27, but by listing it on some of the art sites and sites like Zazzle, or Cafe Press, you can sell the item for $2.00 royalty rather than the $0.27. but when you sell it for $2.00 and you sell it for $0.27, Look at the difference. Yes, my friends, it's all a numbers game.

But, like anything else, you must add those numbers into the mixing bowl where common sense and moderation and ethics are blended into the mix--your mix--that is where the happiness at doing what you love appears. My twitter friend, Patrick, the anthropologist at U Mass posted today on his blog a quote that just really defines that last statement about mixing things.

             "When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more 
altruistic than any primate that I know." 
~~Frans de Waal
 So, here are a few shots to sum up the week beyond what I have posted already this past week. 
Colors are so pretty this year

I use a company that looks for my images on line to detect copyright infringement.



This one is really being watched! Because it's been made into a greeting card.

These are live news coverage editorial images. They watch for these as well!

Generally duck pictures are a 'I don't mind kind of thing'. However, these two pelican images are on the watch list too!.

It All Started in the wee hours of May 28th when 80 MPH winds was tossing everything against the side of my house.

 Those winds were substained for well over 40 minutes. The results were trees everywhere down or large branches broken off. One of my bus ro...