High Flight

High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
by John Gillespie Magee

In this picture I am at about 9000ft above
Florida. I had left Pinconning, Michigan the
day before. I stopped in Crossville, Tennessee
and spent the night with my mother and father-
in-law after 6hrs of flight and will be landing
at Tampa Bay Executive airport.














This is a view of our home near Almont
Michigan. We lived there for about 14
years. It was about 2 miles from the
airport that I learned to fly at. I am
probably about 2-3000 ft above the
ground in this picture.















This is a view of the airport where
I trained for my pilots license, which
I got in 1984. We eventually bought a
home that joined this little airport.














This is my first airplane. It is an
Eagle ultralight. I saw one of these
flying in a TV movie and had to have
one. I didn't need a pilots license
to fly this ultralight.














This was my second airplane. It
is a 4 seat Cessna Skyhawk(172).
This is the plane that I finished
my license training in. I had two
more Skyhawks after this one. I
had partners in all of the Skyhawks.
Made flying more affordable.

Melody of Love

Forty Nine years and wanting more.
Happy 49th wedding anniversary sweet
wife.
Music by Billy Vaughn

A short Walk

These are some of the folks I meet on my walk
in the neighborhood. You will need to expand
the picture to see them














If you look closely you can see two Japanese
beetles making little Japanese beetles.















It is really interesting the different configurations
that the mushrooms have taken this year. May be the
extra rain that we have had this year.














More mushrooms. It has been a wet summer
this year. It's good for some things and
not so good for others. Either way, we like
it.














Grand niece looking cute as usual. Our
little creek has been flowing great this
year.














This is a large geode stone from
Kentucky that is at the entrance to
our labyrinth. This geode is about
12' by 12" in size.















This is a fairly large Petoskey stone from
the state of Michigan. If you look close
you can see the sea creatures in the stone.
This stone is about 6" long.














This is another example of the growth of
the mushrooms this year. Nature is an amazing
thing.

Neighborhood Walk

This tree with the bent trunk is
considered a meeting place for the
local Native Americans. We have a
Cherokee friend who told us that
these trees are bent while they are
still small and become a gathering
place for all the Native American
people where there will be peace.
This tree isn't far from our home
There are others in this area.














The Honeysuckle had a sweet smell
today. There is a lot of it in our
neighborhood. I have transplanted
some next to the deck of our home.














This is a treat that I always look
forward to. The wild Blackberries
are ripe and sweet. I usually stop
for a few berries on my walk. The
wild blueberries are almost gone
so these berries got here just in
time.














At the top of this little hill is
a Baptist church. It is about one
quarter mile from our home. I pass
it everyday on my walk. From our
house to the end of the neighborhood
and back home again is one mile. It
is uphill both ways! I try to walk
it twice a day.














This lake is about 200 yards from
our home and is a great place to
walk to for some peace and quite.
It is the water supply for our
little town.














While standing on the bank of the
lake I saw what looked like a
cross in the water. I looked up
at the clouds and spotted what
caused the reflection of the cross
Use your imagination and look at
the blue sky through the clouds.
It almost forms a cross.

D minor NA style flute

This is the latest flute that I built.
It is for a friend at church. It is a
D minor NA style flute made from
eastern red cedar. The bottom picture
is a video that don't move. It plays
Amazing Grace.

Thinking

This post will be about the art of
thinking when I get organized. It
has been a while since I posted. I
had to stop and think how to add the
words to these pictures. I'm open
to suggestions as to what the monkey
is thinking while looking at the skull
of a man. Which came first the monkey
or the man?

Check back soon, I may add to this post
often. There is a lot to talk about.

Come on guys and gals!! This topic should
incite a lot of comments. Lets have some
fun and solve the question of evolution
or creation. Sit down tonight and think
back to the beginning of time..before
there was anything. What do you see???

Before time began there was Nothing
(NO-Thing). So somehow all this stuff
came into being. According to the
the evolutionist we had a large bang
from NOTHING. Then all this stuff evolved.
Amazing. I think I would rather believe
in a CREATOR. But what came before HIM/HER?
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