March Air Museum

About two weeks ago, I visited yet again, March Air museum at the March ARB in Riverside, CA.

This SR-71 Blackbird (serial no. ...975) was used in the movie Space Cowboys with Clint Eastwood. "Click" on the image, and you almost really there...it gets bigger.

Two of my daughters, and a guest were with me.

The Air Museum is located right at March ARB, where there will be an air show next weekend! I likely won't be at that show, but they won't be needing me to have all of the fun. By the way, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds with their F-16's will be performing.

--Dan

Music, yet again

This is a photo of my wife, Cruz, taken sometime in the 1960's. We still have an accordian in the house, though it is apparently a different one.

I now offer here, on my blog, a very recent cell phone fuzzy video of Cruz playing (trying to play) the accordian, with our Grandson, Jesse, also in the mix...

Cannons and Canon, with trout thrown in

While we were visiting the San Gabriel Mission a few weeks ago, I commented to a fellow working there...


Do you know what that cannon is used for?" He said, "Oh, just for looks, celebrations and things, I suspect"...


I siad, "Well, I happen to know it is used to enforce Canon Law".


Well, that is a Catholic type joke, but I thought it was funny.


Here is the cannon picture I took.


Lastly, here is a photo I took while on a honeymoon roadtrip. Markleeville, California, Sierra Nevada range. They made the most out of their business venture, didn't they?



--Dan

Once again, the Earth groans...Charlton Heston has passed on at age 84

Yet another great loss as the rest of us soldier on...

Charlton Heston, as Moses, in The Ten Commandments

He was very real. No fluff, no fake.

I bought this book for my wife while she was in the hospital. It was fairly current at the time. I have read it myself. It is a real class act.

Who could resist the chariot race scene in Ben Hur? Wow!

I once saw him live at a play in Los Angeles back in around 1972 0r '73. That play was The Crucible.

What a great guy he was, on the screen, off the screen. Rest in peace, Charlton!

--Dan