What a beautiful Clock!
Chicago.
I reflected back to a few days we spent in Chicago in 2007. This is a city you will probably want to visit again. A lot of history, crude, very American history. Mafia.. As the most raw, cruel force that used to prominently influence a process of shaping social and political institutions in the U.S.A. Read the rest of this entry »
That’s it. The time has come.
Back to the grassroots of blogging.(Oh, My, - Google helps a lot, it’s like a ‘powerhouse or collective consciousness‘: so, I goggled ‘grassroots’. Turned out, Wikipedia has an entry. I cherry-picked a passage:
A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a political movement) is one driven by the politics of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it are natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures.
‘Natural and spontaneous’.. That’s it. Sounds familiar, ring the bell. That’s about me. The time has come. For blogging. Blabbing. Yapping.
And then, a word came to my mind. As if from the ‘twilight zone’ 
It was ‘Squirting’. Believe me, I didn’t remember at once what it does mean. Again, you’ve got a solution tool, right at your fingertips: just “Google It!” Which I did.
O-oh.. No.. No good. I wouldn’t recommend you to do this.
But sincerely, English is not my ‘native tongue’. Or, ‘Mother tongue’, as they call it sometimes. My mother wouldn’t have liked what kind of stuff I allow myself to poke my nose in. But it’s not her fault. The word came, anyway, and I needed to get an exact meaning of it.
I will resume.. No, I will start a genuine blogging on this web-site. Its is not though that it will be done from the scratch. There’s some ‘legacy’ already accumulated. But the concept will be totally overhauled.
A few things that happened recently in my life prompted me to reshuffle my whole ‘Internet-existence’. The latest one was our trip to Dominican Republic. It was like a ‘last straw’, actually.
It was so different from all the travel adventures that we had before. In many aspects. Just for starters, for the first time in our life we went down to ANOTHER COUNTRY to visit our children. (See: that’s Us, driving in a cab to a rented ‘cabana’. With all the stuff we brought for them.)
OK, Right now it’s time to go to bed.
Tomorrow it will be continued..
(Tomorrow I fly to Tampa Bay in Florida)
Cheers.
Here’s a quick post to sustain the blog’s rolling. Got lucky to get a ‘fun ride’ on the Cougar lately. Here’s Butch sitting on the tractor, and another guys is hooking up a tow-bar to it. The plane is going to be bushed back inside a hangar. Read the rest of this entry »
Uh, seems like these underwater images taken by a very simple, $10-dollar camera turned out not too bad. Or, you would rather call them ’so-so’, but they are not as bad as you might expect from such a ‘low budget solution’. At least, I’ve been able to identify some of the fish captured on it in two days of Hanauma Bay snorkeling. Read the rest of this entry »
It was taken with a very simple, conventional camera. Of course, water-proof, designed for underwater photographing. Last year, in Costa Rica. Tomorrow we fly to Hawaii, - for another round of experimenting with same kind of camera. It makes up to a total of four cameras, that we are going to take with us
Let’s make a short break in posting all that ‘bush stuff from Siberia’! Aloha!
Have just begun another interesting communication with a pilot, who used to fly MiGs, and now - the Antonov-2s in African desert, hauling loads of tourists on so-called ‘aero-safaris’. Read the rest of this entry »
As I keep drafting these notes for a future work tentatively called here ‘Bush Operation on both sides of Arctic’, somehow it occurred to me that a ‘drafter would probably miss a point’ unless he gives a quick outlook of existing ‘bush environment types’. Apparently, the kinds of landscape over which the operation takes place will define some essential traits characteristic to a particular case. Read the rest of this entry »
Kelowna Flightcraft (the company’s full name: Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd.) added recently two units of heavy equipment: DC-10 freighters. Apparently, this addition has boosted up Kelowna’s available capacity, and provided the company with a new ‘tool of trade’ enabling them to expand and grow business to a new level. Read the rest of this entry »
Got a chance to get a clear shot of the DHC-5 ‘Buffalo’. What’s interesting (’rumors, rumors’!), the ‘Viking’ of Victoria, a company that is about to begin production of the renewed ‘de Havilland Canada’ aircraft, is said to be having included Buffalo in its ‘remake list’. Read the rest of this entry »
No doubt, the name of Cargolux is wide know in the industry of air cargo transport. I don’t know how much of a strain it would be to call them ‘one of the largest and influential player in the field’, but Cargolux can be proud of its reputation, and it also has quite a decent size fleet of 747-400F cargo planes (16-strong), which could be seen at many places around the planet. And here’s one of them, spotted yesterday morning at the Calgary International airport. Read the rest of this entry »
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