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"Ticket to Ride"

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 Living on the Space Coast I have the privilege of watching rocket launches. Yesterday, April 1, was a historic launch of the return to the moon mission Artemis II. I took this picture from Jetty Park of the launch, it was a beautiful day, but let me catch up on the rest of the week first. Over the weekend, March 28 and 29, I had plans to do things but I ended up staying at home doing chores around the house. The only pictures I took were of the bird feeder and none of those were worth sharing. On Monday. March 30, I met up with my friend Ken at Lou's Blues for our Monday beers, and then I walked out to the beach to watch a SpaceX Starlink launch. It was scheduled for 5:15 PM. The local pelicans were flying in formation, and there were plenty of dogs running around Canova Beach... I think this guy was making a "pack" with his two dogs, they were shaking on it... The dogs were very willing to chase the sticks, but usually ran farther than the throw. Happy dogs! I had 20 mi...
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"All Together Now"

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 I mentioned in my last post that I had attended the St Patrick's Day parade in downtown Melbourne and I would share more photos in this post. In actuality, most of the photos look like any other year and there was nothing outstanding I caught in my photos.  One of the bands, the Space Coast Highlanders, are always a treat to watch and hear. You gotta love bagpipes. While waiting for the parade to start, I ended up conversing with Tim Shortt, who happens to be one of the photographers I admire working for the local paper the Florida Today. He was covering the parade for the paper. Here he is taking a shot while the parade starts, only about 30 minutes late. He is a nice guy and I enjoyed our pre-parade chat. Another guy I met while waiting was Michael Spooner, aka Rockin' Michael. He makes guitars that he gives to businesses. This one was made for Meg O'Malley's which he was handing to a cart in the parade with Meg people. He kept saying he may "do a Kramer" a...
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"I'll Follow the Sun"

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When I first started this BLOG, it was at the time I had just retired and I wanted to keep a journal of my activities during retirement. My dad had taken my Mom to Florida for retirement after I went off to college, and he kept a journal. I like reading it now, and I tried to type it into the computer, but I am a slow typist and my dad wrote a lot. Lately, I have fallen into the trap of writing rarely and pretty much about my dining and reading activity, but I am doing a lot more than that. I need to focus more on the day to day activities and not the bucket list. Maybe I will give it up and I'll Follow the Sun .. Or the Moon. During the early morning hours of March 3, there was going to be a total eclipse of the moon. I went out the evening before  to check the weather, and it was starting to cloud over so I took this shot of the full moon. Sadly to say, when I got up at 6 am, the moon, which was suppose to be eclipsed, was covered by clouds and so no Red Moon photos. At least I t...
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