Breitling Jets are Awesome

  With the air show season drawing to a close the Alliance Air Show is the second to last on the schedule for the first American Tour for the aerobatic flight jet team sponsored by the swiss watch manufacturer Breitling. Thanks to some quick phone calls and scheduling shuffles I got a chance to ride along for a short program as the team flew an orientation flight.
  Absolutely awe inspiring how close together the seven L-39 Albatross trainers fly. Then they start doing maneuvers over the airfield and I get flat out giddy. What an amazing group of pilots and I can not thank them enough for the opportunity.
  I guess advertising does work, because I now have a new favorite watch brand.

Pilot Christophe Deketelaere and mechanic Sayge Woodforth with the line of L-39 Albatross  jets.

Mid loop in the first slot position.

Looking at the smoke shadow of our loop.

THinking about reaching out and touching Breitling Jet 4.

Big Bee

  Discovered a gorgeous yard in the Riverside neighborhood of Ft. Worth this morning. Beautiful colors of flowering plants, arranged in sculpted beds amongst a bunch of trees such as a lace barked elm and bald cypress that you do not see in the area very often. In the middle of all that is a fence with a passion vine that was covered with blooms. With the size of the flowers I almost missed the furry little fellow helping to pollinate all those blooms. A bumble bee just rolling around like a pig in slop. He had so much pollen on him you could not make out the black stripes. Really fun to watch nature work.

Bumble Bee getting a taste of Passion Flower.

Natures Bounty

  To see the larger animals of the natral world is always an impressive sight, but after walking thru their environment and seeing how expansive their domain can be it gives a whole new perspective. Climbing thru western National Parks of Glacier, Yellowstone,Grand Tetons and Rocky Mountain to see their habitat and bask in their environment makes it so much more impressive to finally see a Bull Elk in all his glory up close. I am thankful that there are places that will be maintained in their natural state just disappointed that they are so limited in size. 

A Bull Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park.