How to fill time in retirement

Today I scanned in four more items; these are all old pictures. I think I took two of them and my dad Harold took the other two. The common theme is vehicles. I guess they did not fit in to any previous scan groupings in my simple matrix. I lie, it is a complex matrix. I have scanned almost 6,000 photographs and still have more to do. I am getting down to the oddballs like these four... The first picture was taken by me in 1983. It is a shuttle launch but I am not positive which one. I am guessing the April launch of Shuttle Challenger. What makes this particular photo unique is where I was at launch time. Most launches I went to were NASA passes that got you up close on NASA owned property. This was an Air Force pass which got you onto the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (now it is Air Space Station.)  It was actually the closest place the public was allowed. They stopped using it after, this shuttle, blew up in 1986. We were to the SSE of the pad. It was a beautiful launch. The ...

 I spent the morning at the Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands in Viera Florida. How many things can you identify? Okay, there was nothing to identify here. When you enter RGM wetlands and look left (South), this is what you see. That is the way I headed... Immediately along the lake, I saw these unique flowers growing. I have identified them as a Narrow-leaf White-top Sedge. I had never seen them before out here. American Alligator relaxing in the grass. His back leg was sticking out at a weird angle. About six to seven feet long, I decided I did not need a picture of his head... This Great Blue Heron was crossing the road and squawking the whole time. I am not sure if he was yelling at me for approaching or just letting other birds know he was there. In the distance, you can see two photographers and a small flock of Vultures. As I approached the vultures, two of them were lying on the ground. As I got near, one stood up but this one seemed not to care. I asked these two politely if...