Sandy Santa

Sand sculpture on display at Holiday Festival of Lights, St. John's Island County Park, Charleston, SC

Merry Christmas

Christmas present

Not your typical manger scene but I like it.














The Christmas tree, has stood up for several years and doesn't lose it's needles but maybe I need more ornaments.

Christmas past

Why in the world am I dressed before all the other presents are opened? The outfit must have been a gift. Also, what was my mother thinking...those curtains with that wallpaper?

To my Dad

Dad, you told me recently that you wished you said I was beautiful more often. I wish I said I loved you more.

To my Dad 1/4/30 - 12/10/09


Me in my mothers lap, Dad and a close friends daughter.

Everybody needs a Christmas Dog

When I was putting this together, my real dog was barking at it and tried to sniff his rear because I guess in a dogs world a lighted Jack Russell needs to know who is the number #1 dog around these parts.








Yep, very scary when lit.

I'd Rather

Remodel
a bathroom











Throw myself into the ocean











Jump out of an airplane
























Spend the day at a Quarry






Than fight the crowds during Black Friday!

Happy Thanksgiving

Baking the apple pie





















Srsly, you didn't think that *I* actually made that pie from scratch did you?

Oh and Nutella put in the microwave and poured on top of the vanilla ice cream that's on top of the pie is absolutely delicious!!! Yum.

Reading

I like to read. I read probably on average one book a week, mostly paperbacks. I friend my favorite writers on facebook and twitter. When I go out I stick them in my purse in case I decide to stop at Panera Bread for lunch. Being in my purse the covers get torn and covered in other "stuff" that's in the bottom of my purse. I came across these:








There is one for "Trade" paperbacks which are larger and one for the "Mass Market" paperbacks.








I like them because they come with an attached bookmark. I am always losing my bookmark and having to hunt for something to mark the page. No more.

Currently I'm reading "Last Kiss" by Luanne Rice. What are you reading?

They've started....

....playing Christmas music on probably the only two radio stations I can clearly get on my clock radio or that don't play crap in the first place. By the time Christmas has come I'll have gone mad. Maybe I should ask Santa for an internet radio.

Let the music play on

Street muscians, Madrid, Spain

Filadelfia

This is how they spell it in Spain

Lego's

Dragon made out of lego's

Dad

Why is it when we get older we become as helpless as when we were children? My dad is in the hospital right now suffering dementia. It's not known at the moment whether this was brought on by a recent increase in medication for Parkinson's or it was due to a very high level of calcium in his blood or if it is just the aging process but whatever the cause it's sad to see. Here is a picture of my Dad when he was about 3 and life was only looking up.

Arches of Europe

Puerta de Alcala, the Gate of Alchala
Spain












Admirility Arch, London

Mellow Mushroom

On the walls of a pizza place in Charleston, SC. Dude on the left looks like Nickolas Ashford of Ashford & Simpson (yeah I'm that old that I remember them)

Congrats to Charleston, SC

Boeing announced last Wednesday that they will be locating a second assembly line for the 787 Dreamliner in Charleston, SC. This is good news for Charleston and South Carolina in general. With GE and Michelin already in the upstate this could mean more suppliers locating to South Carolina.

Pictured: Boeing's 747 Dreamlifter landing at Charleston Airport

Happy Halloween

Be safe and don't eat too much candy.

Beauty & Ugliness

The most awesome airport. Palm Springs, California

















Now tell me, is this not the ugliest thing one can do to the beauty of these mountains? When Ted Kennedy was alive he was all gung ho about wind power, so long as it wasn't in HIS backyard. Why? Because they're ugly. They destroy the beauty of nature.

Get your kicks on Route 66

The sign





































An era gone by




















How many ways can YOU say coffee?
















Roadkill Cafe















Anyone remember the Burma Shave ads?

Floating in Air

Can you guess how this guy is floating?

Estatuas Humanas

Estatuas Humanas? According to my husband they didn't move for 5 minutes.

This woman was being made up to appear as a statue.

Hanging around

Decorating for the Holidays

Some people just put out a few pumpkins, maybe a flag and a witch while others go all out.







The owner of the house actually went to a plane junkyard and bought a wrecked plane. I don't know where he's keeping it after Halloween.

















A passenger















Pilot and co-pilot















And one must have a hearse....















and a graveyard
















Aliens have landed















Jack Nicholson or Beatlejuice?