Tuesday afternoon photo

From outside the clubhouse this afternoon. That's James Hager racing by on the motorcycle...

Docking area

Nice to have one in the vicinity after a particularly long day... Eric is doing fine and will be back in the swing of things tomorrow.

Morning Smoke Rising

Taken this morning from the gc parking lot. I was in early to spell Eric who was going in for surgery on his knee a little later.

Night Lights

From a few nights back. Stoll's Restaurant feeding the hungry as darkness falls.

Night falling and moon rising

From a day or two back as I waited for the last golfers to come in from the back forty. Don't recognize the vehicle passing; could have been a neighbor. One of the special things about living in a small town: you expect to know everybody who passes by and if you don't, you ask the person next to you: who was that? They usually know.

Bloomington Photos: City potted plants runneth over

A quiet time on a Bloomington street corner - Sunday morning.

Sunday musings: college football, books, politics, the world and the weather, too!

Photo: Fishermen finding themselves somewhere between a green and an eating place.

-Did you know that Nate Montana, Joe's son, is a backup quarterback at Notre Dame? I didn't... A story about him here. And, yes, the Irish did not look good yesterday though they did win. Michigan next. Hoosiers and Boilermakers also won. Easily.

-Got two books started and one that is calling me that came in the mail yesterday: Janet Evanovich's Three to Get Deady, a Stephanie Plum novel, which is just good fun and a great escape; Haruko Taya Cook & Theodore F. Cook's Japan at War, an oral history, which sister Sarah sent me a month or so back and which I am finding more than interesting - the stories are from the guys on the other side during the Pacific part of WWII, the Japanese; and Gavan Daws Prisoners of the Japanese which should offer a quite different perspective on that same Pacific War.

-Obama was in Terre Haute yesterday. Cool. Looking for Indiana to go Blue this November. Wouldn't surprise me.

-Benazir Bhutto's widower has been elected president of Pakistan. Sea change happening over there, too.

-Weather change here in Loogootee, from the oven heat of a few days back to Fall like weather yesterday and now today as well. Nice.

Afternoon view from the front bedroom

Home early today what with the rainy skies and had a chance to see the afternoon through a couple of lace curtains. Not exactly Robert Frost and Chicago. (Here's a reference of a Frost poem that includes lace curtains but is in his North of Boston volume. Wonder what the Chicago connection is - maybe another poem by Frost?)

More Friday Morning in Town: Congestion

Got a caption for this photo? Boy following girl? Casino: go left?

More Friday Morning in Town: Working Men 2

Working men on a Friday morning a week ago. Expect they are doing much the same thing this Friday morning. Recognize the golfer in this picture? For all I know, there might be two of them.

More Friday Morning in Town: Martial Arts and Marriage

A long time ago I would often confuse 'martial arts' with 'marital arts'. One of those little tricks our minds play on us with certain words. Or maybe it's an eye thing.

Friday morning in town: Men at work

Men at work on the K of C building last Friday morning.

Boats and helicopters

boating in a sea of gold...

more of the helicopter that flew over the golf course the other day...

Old cars meeting at The Cabin

Breakfast with the grandsons at The Cabin. Bunch of neat old cars were all decked out in the parking lot.

Saturday boaters: tubing and fishing

A couple of photos from Saturday afternoon at the golf course. A couple of vastly different pursuits: a dad with five kids doing some tubing and then the couple quietly drifting along the shoreline casting a line and waiting for a bite.

The color red

Seen from the parking lot of the dentist's office the other day. Small town America, maybe the World. Does Coca-Cola have big trucks full of soda driving the roads of the world? I expect they do.

Helicopter photo, Boxman photo, and an Irish blessing

It was checking out the power lines this morning as the Seniors played their games.

Here's another photo from Boxman. Talk about living next to the tracks...

And here's an Irish blessing for you:

May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Got a movie in the mail today, one Diane picked out because she liked the title: Before the devil knows you're dead.

Water fun - tubers

Guess they are having fun. Being bounced around and holding on for dear life and getting dunked every now and then.

Drive away

Dan's car speeding down highway 231 after a round of golf last Sunday evening.

Tom Holt takes me for a ride

Tom Holt asking me if I wanted to go for a ride yesterday evening. I dropped everything and went for my very first boat excursion around Boggs Lake.

Tom leaves me off where we started after the forty-five minute ride and heads on back to his home on the lake.