Home!

To all the folks out there that offered prayers and all for my wife and family, a big THANK YOU. Our prayers are answered, and my wife, Cruz, is home again! No, she is not suddenly all well, but she is well enough to come home, and that is a start.

--Dan

A great photo, and great news more on the fire, as I have added stuff...

Click on photo to see the amazing sight. The photo here, of the hatchery in danger of destruction.

Photo is courtesy of :

http://www.sierravisions.com/

©2007 Steven Bourelle


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Michelle, my daughter.

Me, Dan.

These photos taken less than one day before inferno. I will return there sometime, since it was saved.

http://www.inyocounty.info/

Please view the amazing website, clickable above, and note references to hatchery at that site.

I was near where this fire happened only less than 24 hours before.

--Dan

One of the Best

One of my absoultely favorite places on this earth, the Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery, almost burned to the ground last week. Fortunately, it was SAVED, but the firefighters had to jump into the ponds to avoid flames, and several went to the hospital. I was there the very day before it happened. Here is one of the last pictures taken of that most peaceful and serene place on God's good earth...before the fire. Click on the photo, it is heaven on earth, located in the wonderous shadow of the great Sierra Nevada Mountains, the hatchery always knows a breeze blowing ...always knows, always knows.


One of my other most favorite places, San Dimas Canyon, burned incredibly a few years ago. It was a marvelous place, my dreams there were so many, now looks like the moon.


Another, in Lytle Creek, also burned.


I'll need to seek my last remaining areas of solitude...because life is short, and so too are many things of life.


I had terrible bug bites this last week, a product of my trip last week into the Sierra mountains. I hate whatever that was that got me...whatever it was that it is. A stealth bug, maybe.


I was reading about a bunch of gold prospectors that hang out in the East Fork of the San Gabriel river. Those die-hards. I have done that...propecting for gold, but mostly in the Mother Lode region of the Western Sierra Nevada. It can be hard and dangerous work. I once saw the bad end of a rifle barrel doing that stuff. People get crazy. Read on it...


http://www.dankat.com/advents/eastfk.htm


There is even a "bridge to nowhere". No, it's not my website, another guy did it.




If you go to the website, see the slide show.

--Dan

Answer to previous post and more...

As per the photo "monument" in my previous post...

From The Manzanar cemetery site is marked by a monument that was built by internee stone mason Ryozo Kado in 1943.[36] An inscription in Japanese on the front of the monument reads, 慰靈塔 (Soul Consoling Tower).[34] The inscription on the back reads "Erected by the Manzanar Japanese" on the left and "August 1943" on the right.[34] Today, the monument is often draped in strings of origami, and sometimes has offerings of personal items left by survivors and visitors. The National Park Service periodically itemizes and collects these items.

--ref. www.answers.com

...and more information from:

http://www.nps.gov/manz/

I have now returned from another visit there. Here is a photo. Click on it to see it better:

The picture is of the newly reconstructed auditorium. The temperature that Thursday afternoon, at that moment, was about 108 degrees F. The clouds forming in the afternoon sky over the 14,000 ft. skyline were to form again the next day, thus resulting in many lightning strikes and several large fires in the surrounding area. they even closed the highway.

In the green, me, on Friday, while on the Mt. Whitney trail with one of my daughters. We are at around 9,000 ft. It was my first time there in about 28 years or so.

I used to look like this about 28 years ago, as seen at about 8, 700 ft. in the San Gabriel mountains...

--Dan

That day in July, and a photo somewhere

Click on it to make it more visible.

Have a great holiday, all those in the USA. To all those elsewhere, have a great day anyway!




The photo above, taken by me...is where I'll be after the 4th of July. Who can guess what this image is about? I may or may not confirm a correct answer until the weekend or so, if anybody throws out a guess. Do check back...I will tell soon.


--Dan

More Blackbird and NASA

SR-71B trainer in hanger at Edwards AFB (NASA) ready to fly. Photo by me. This plane has since been deactivated, cut in half for transport, and is now in a museum.

SR-71 B on the deck just outside of the NASA facilty, Edwards AFB. This was a good time. Behind the buildings to the right is where the space shuttle is lifted onto the 747 for transport back to Florida (when it lands here, as it did several days ago)



Our second oldest daughter in 1997, stepping out from the 747 that transports the space shuttle.

The shuttle returned on it's way to Florida today, Sunday, on...the 747! NASA Photo by Tom Tschida.

All other photos by me, Dan.

--Dan L.