The Grassy Knoll

Over the years I have looked at lots of documents, read magazine and newspaper articles and watched countless documentaries on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I can't count the times I have been in Dallas and with all of that, I had never actually visited Dealey Plaza, the site of the assassination.

On our trip to Texas this past weekend we (my wife and I) stopped in to see Q and his family. After treating us to a nice sushi dinner Q was kind enough to play tour guide and take us to Dealey Plaza.

After seeing it in videos and photos I always thought it was a much larger area. From a sniper's point of view this is an extremely confined space with the route bottle-necking right into the point where the shots were fired.

I, being the opinionated old fart that I am, have my own theory as to how many shooters there were and that opinion was made even stronger once I visited this place. 

I won't bore you with my theory but I will say that I was surprised by the fact that even now, people still come to this spot to see it. We were there about 10:00 p.m. and there were several people walking around, taking photos and looking behind the area of the grassy knoll.

Convoy of tankers!

This was the scene in Coal Harbour a few days ago. 8 full size tankers pulled into town to meet a large boat full of salmon from one of the local fish farms. First time I've seen them use tankers to haul fish and not the usual refer trucks...

Slow down and smell the...

...whatever that plant is on top of the post!

The "Airport Beach"

A couple of scenes from the "Airport Beach" near the Port Hardy airport.

Cool Change

I was born in the sign of water and it's there that I feel my best

The albatross and the whales they are my brothers

It's kind of a special feeling when you're out on the sea alone

Staring at the full moon like a lover

Lyrics from the Little River Band's song "Cool Change"

May flowers

I guess it's really true about the April showers bringing May flowers!

a floating reflection

I'm still digging through the GoPro images. I'm headed to Texas tomorrow so hopefully I will come back with some new photos. Get your umbrella out Tex, here I come!

Scenes from Hardy Bay

Some random scenes from Hardy Bay on a nice bright Spring day!

The Bridge.

Remembering of Kauai.

Just a wave

I was looking through some of the GoPro shots I took on my last trip to the ocean. Man, that was a long time ago!

 It is definitely a handy little camera if you don't want to lug around all of the underwater gear I have to have for the DSLR.

The bridge

This bridge crosses Cache Creek In Medicine Park, OK.

The creek was flowing pretty good because of the previous two days of rain. There were several people wondering the banks of the creek taking photos.

Jinxed

I think my new camera is jinxed! I first took it to Colorado a couple of weeks ago and got hit with a blizzard and torrential rains.

I took it to Oklahoma with me this past weekend and was hit with high winds, torrential rains, hail and a frickin' tornado!

The weekend wasn't a complete bust though. The weather did clear up for Saturday night and Q and I were able to have a nice fire and cook a steak dinner. 

The winds were too high for the ospreys to be active, I saw only four ospreys the whole weekend. We managed to get a few photos in a nearby small town so I will have something to post.

I'm headed to Texas next week. We see what the weather does then.