I am a day early for this
ABC Along post, but since I have been late more than once, I figured that was okay! :o)
F is for flying, family, fun, fighter pilots/plane, Fat Albert, famous Blue Angels and focus.
The California Capitol Air Show is this weekend. The last two days I have taken the kids out to the front to see the practices. It was so pretty outside, that I took a picture of our humble little home. The roses had a tough year last year and this year they seem to be coming back nicely. We have been enjoying all the flowers too, which we are planting in the pots you can see because our soil is ROCK HARD CLAY that is near impossible to dig. The only reason we have roses planted in the ground is that I took out the juniper bushes and that broke up all the soil! Above our house you can see a "zoom" as D calls it, or more properly known as a condensation trail or con trail. Since I have lots of pics to share, I made them extremely low resolution, so I apologize ahead for the pixelation but I also didn't want to overwhelm those of you with dial up.
It was kind of fun to watch these guys practice. One is a biplane and I don't know enough about planes to tell you about the others, but they are older type planes.
And I always enjoy seeing the old and new next to each other, it's such a contrast. It's kind of like seeing an elderly person holding a new baby. It speaks to me.
Here you can see that the planes were different colors as they fly in formation.
And this churns my stomach because it seems like it would be harder in an older style plane without all the technology to pull up out of one of these dives or spins.
We think this might be Fat Albert (click on index at right) but we are not sure.
It is nice to be out as a family enjoying this. Here is A and D playing in between aerial displays.
And this is J laughing histerically at the songs Mommy was singing to her. She insists on wearing this snowflake scarf from one of their teddy bears.
The
Blue Angels have got to be my favorite. They were here two years ago and last year the Thunderbirds were here. They are good, but not as fast or aggressive and they are more difficult to photograph since they are mainly white. The Blue Angels have also chosen a flight path closer to our home, which is nice for us! :o)
Here they are inverted.
Diving downward in a circular sequence.
A couple came so low and close that the car alarm went off on our neighbor's Corvette and my right ear has been in pain ever since. (I have a cold and lots of pressure so it really hurt! At first I thought I burst my ear drum but it seems to be gradually getting better.)
D thought it was so cool that the planes have numbers on them!
This is one of my favorite shots and D likes it too because he is 6!
They look slow here, but it is amazing that I got any pics halfway decent because they go so fast!
Climbing upward.
This is to show you how close they are. This is the neighbor's pine tree!
This shows a black speck in the bottom left...this is a bird. Several of our pictures have specks and I thought that we had dust on our sensor, but when we checked pictures on the big screen, we found out they were birds! LOL What were they thinking as this happened?!
It amazes me how close they fly to each other. Pretty scary and impressive!
We hope to watch it as a family today, now that Daddy is home with us. Thanks for joining me for the letter of the day, the letter F!
Hubby, Kids and I watched the Air Show from home yesterday and had a lot of fun! The pictures we got from the show were different than practice and so I wanted to share a few more for my family. Bear with me everyone, I promise this will not become an aviation blog! :o)
Did I mention, they come very CLOSE to our house? Close enough to vibrate the house and set off car alarms and cause pain to congested ears!
Close enough to stimulate excitement and draw neighbors out to the middle of the street and chat with those they have not yet met.
Close enough to stir up dreams in young boys who change "what they want to be when they grow up" by the minute.
Close enough for "big boys" to dream what it would be like if they were flying into the clouds!
Close enough for photographers all over town to get in strange positions to get the best shot!
Close enough to each other to cause fear, wonder and admiration.
Close enough to Heaven to make me wonder, what it is like up there! (This photo is courtesy of Hubby...can you see how CLOSE they are to each other in formation?! That is FOUR planes!)
