Clouds, Storm Clouds, Thunderhead Clouds, etc . . .

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The past couple of days we've been getting some really great storm clouds and thunderheads, but not getting any rain!! Yesterday while I was in Burger King getting a couple take-outs, there were 6-8 drops of rain on the seat & gas tank of my bike. Then this after noon before dinner while I was at my computer, I could hear rolling thunder way off in the distance, and our barometer is way above 'Rain', but again no rain!! Maybe someday, eh!! ;-)) Anyway, I got some really great shots both Wednesday & Thursday, but the individual shots just didn't do justice, so you'll see that a made them into 'panorama' shots for better viewing, ok!! Hope you enjoy them all, eh!!

Here's a little 'teaser' for you all. I'm a cloud looker and find all kinds of things in the various shapes and coloring in clouds. Check out this pano shot, and please let me know if you also can see a big winged bird in the darker cloud on the right side about middle way, ok!! If you do see it, just use this link to let me know, eh!! I Do See The Bird!! ;-))

Later, 'Viper'

Quilts, Cats, Bikes, Mustangs, Scenery & Photography of Monica Dahl

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I have another mixed bag of goodies for you this time. My sister 'Jo' complained about me taking more shots of Ricky than Lucy, so Jo this update is a must see for you, eh!! ;-)) After shopping last Saturday the 25th, we went to our fabric store, Textile Traditions to pick up Kathy's 'Block of the Month', grab a few shots of some new quilts hanging in the store and get her a 'fat quarter' of new colorful material they just got in. They also have a lot of very colorful material of Australia coming in too and we both like bright colors too. But as we were leaving the parking lot to the store there were 2 really nice looking Mustangs on the street that I just had to get some shots of, right. As I started to shot the cars I noticed a Victory motorcycle across and up the street so I got a couple shots of it, one by walking up the street and just a bit pass the bike. Then I noticed a Candy Red Harley further up and got a couple shots of it by zooming in on it, eh!! So all of you car and bike nuts, I hope you enjoy the extra effort I put out to add these shots too!! ;-)) I've also included my gas receipt too, because the prices dropped so dramatically that I couldn't believe it. And depending on what you pay for local gas, when was the last time in memory that the prices dropped 24 cents from one Saturday to the next???

Now when you get to 'Monica Dahl' and her shots, I've been looking little by little thru her web site on 'YouTube'?? and she has some very interesting and unusual pictures taken by herself with various types of cameras, including one that has 4 lens that shows 4 variations of the shot in one picture. I just picked out a few of what caught my own eye and I hope you enjoy her stuff too.

The 'Not A Cloud In The Sky Pano' was shot at Marinos just before we went inside for breakfast and you can see what a great view we have from their place. The articles from TTJ or The Trinity Journal may be of interest to some and not others, but as for the Saw Mill Saloon, they are already cleaning up for rebuilding and Nancy says she's going to keep her place open!! That's very good news to a lot of our locals!! ;-))

Till next time ... 'Viper'

Weaver City Annual Car Show In The Park 2007

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Ok, I've got a ton of pictures for you, as I took 196 shots just at the car show!! ;-)) NO, I did not use all of them, ok. What I did do tho was try to split them into smaller groups with my slide shows to help you out. And as usual you can still just look thru all the files and pick out only the shots that you may want to see too.

ALBUM_A . . . is all Motorcycles and has a picture of our local Saw Mill Saloon at the end, because it might be of interest to Barb & Stacy of Texas, who are bikers and used to live around here about 30 years ago. Anyway, they had a really bad fire presumedly on Friday the 17th and we saw it on Saturday morning coming to eat at Marinos which is about the 4th business building from them. The first few labeled 'HD_Marinos' is of a nice bike parked out front when we arrived. The next labeled 'TCC' are about one of our locals here that works at the town's saw mill. Jerry Kloose and has been building the very long 'raked' bike for over 5-6 years now. He always says it's 'a work in progress', eh!! The other 3 bikes are For Sale at his tiny area called Trinity County Choppers, off to the side of a ex-service station turned into a garage now days. Since I love 'springer' models I really liked taking shots of that one, eh!! ;-)) All 3 bikes had great custom paint jobs and I tried showing that off with some really close up shots.

ALBUM_B . . . is all 'group' or 'pano' shots that I put together from 2 to 7 shots. This will give you a general overall set of pictures with mostly a variety of vehicles and people milling all around looking at the cars/trucks, with me trying to get off some good shots, eh!! ;-)) If you're a sharp looker, you'll see one of my pano shots where a lady was on the left side of a car in one shot and then on the right side of the next shot and my pano software in putting all the shots together shows her twice, eh!!

ALBUM_C . . . is all the other shots that were left over and include a lot of close ups of some really great looking cars and trucks, eh!! My passion runs from old to new, classics to odd balls, Fords to Chevys, etc, but what I really love is how these cars look and run. My favorite color is dark Reds, but there were other colors that I would have loved just as much IF I owned the cars myself, right!! ;-)) Especially the Candy Purple Sedan!!! Then again there was the '34 Plymouth with the Suicide Doors!! Or the Red/White Lowered '56 Chevy too!! Hmmmm . . . way to many to make a decision right now, eh!! ;-))

Hope you enjoy all the pictures. Later, 'Viper'

Slide Shows/Videos/Movies & Pictures too

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I'm trying some 'new' stuff on you all today. I've been testing & tweaking my slide show software, JAlbum, and have finally figured out how to not only change a lot of the settings, but to actually 'SAVE' them too!! All of the 9 slide shows only took 2 to 3 seconds to make each slide show, eh!! Mostly due to NOT having to re-set everything from one slide show to the next. And a lot of people have been sending me groups of pictures, so instead of just adding a link to them individually, I made them into mini-slide shows, ok!! ;-)) The trick is to find them with my new settings. ANY file name that does NOT end in '.jpg' or '.JPG', or an 'extension', is a slide show. Just click on the file name and it will/should open in your browser and start playing automatically, eh!! If you have any problems, please let me know the file name and what your problem was, ok.

When you see 'Shaw', that is my Uncle John Shaw that lives across the road from me. When you see 'Girls', those are my 'adopted' grand kids!! ;-)) Their real grand parents are my friends Barbara & Stacy Maness, eh!! 'Jo' is my sister and sent me those great pics of cars+, because she knows I love all kind of cars, trucks, bikes, stock or custom, right!! And the 'TTJ' files are out of our local newspaper, The Trinity Journal, and I picked out what I thought would be of interest to various of my ebuddies, eh!! ;-)) Again, do an 'all in one' Blog is making it so much easier on me than sending out 4-5 different emails and links. So anyone can take a peek at what ever peeks your curiosity, eh!! Enjoy!!! ;-)))

Later, 'Viper'

Old Truck, Custom Cars, Bikes, Wild Flowers, Movies

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Ok, all you car lovers are really going to enjoy this UPDATE!! I'll start right off with one of my FAVORITES, the 1960 Ford Starliner 2-Door Hardtop, eh!! I owned one for many a year and really loved the style, ride and roominess. Then there's a '33 Chevy & '38 Chrysler that has fabulous custom paint jobs, a really clean '55 Chevy Bel Air, a hot looking Yellow Toyota, an old Suicide Door Sedan, a nice looking Red/Black Harley with a Springer Front End which I happen to like, a cute little Red 'Minor'??, a Red Chevelle, a Red Mustang and an old basket case Truck that a guy was taken down to San Diego, CA and start restoring it, eh!! The new owner of the old truck said he keep my updated by emailing me his progress over the next months/years, but to date he hasn't sent me a 'contact' email so I can add him to my address book, eh!!

Then I have a lot of variety for anyone and everyone, so I don't have to send these shots to 5-6 different peoples, eh!! And you've just gotta see the 2 movies too. The 'VRS' movie is hilarious!!! The shot of the 'WoodBees' was taken with my camera in 'burst' mode where I can take up to 5 shots very quickly. There were 5 bees all trying to get at the same flowers and fighting for positions, so I ended up taking a total of 13 shots, just to get this one really good shot, eh!! Hope you all enjoy!!

Later, 'Viper'

Our 25th Anniversary, Old & Custom Cars, Whiskeytown Lake, USA Flag-Sun-Trees Shot

Hi Everyone,

Do I have a bunch of pictures for you to start off the month of August, eh!! ;-)) First off, our 25th Anniversary was July 24th and our daughters, Sherri & Lourie, including a lot of help from their family's, gave us a really GREAT Lawn Party at Sherri & Tom's house on Sunday the 29th. So please don't get mad at all of the pictures this time, but I added a lot of 'extras' and tried as usual to label them so you can skip the ones the you don't really care to see, right. Remember, instead of mailing to different groups of people, I'm just mailing to one groups now days and putting all of the pictures into only one file now.

For those of you that do NOT know Kathy's family by now, I labeled both the 'files' and the pictures so you can tell who's who. I think Sherri told us there were a total of 21 people that showed up, eh!! ;-)) Only 2 people aren't relatives in one way or another and that is John & Jan Smith. They were out tenants for about 5 years and we really hated seeing them leave too. But when they moved in they told us up front they would only be renting till they found a nice piece of property of their own. So we wished them will and they are now kind of family, so we invited them and they came to help us celebrate too. Thanks guys if you read this!! ;-)))

I keep the rest of this short because of all the variety of things within my pictures this time, so please just look at ALL OF THE FILE NAMES and look at what seems to interest YOU, ok!! But if you only pick one file to look at, you gotta check out the 'CatswothAnnitudes11.wmv' !!! Honest!!!! ;-))) If you look at my 'ALBUM', I tried to 'bunch' similar shots all together, starting with our 25th Anniversary Party, ok!!

On our way back home from Redding after the Anniversary Party, we started seeing a lot of 'custom' or 'older' cars in groups heading east on Hwy #299. Later Sunday night when checking my email, my car friend that I grow up with down south, said that they had driven their '31 Chevy to Fortuna, CA to a car show. This is the same car that was wrecked last year and I had sent you all progress reports while he, Bill and his wife Ann had rebuilt over a few months time. So I'm just guessing that these cars were coming back from Fortuna, eh!! I tried taking some pictures thru the car windshield while driving, but they usually had driven by before I could even turn on my camera, eh!! But when we pulled into Weaverville and stopped at our local shopping area, I got some good shots of 3 Vette's, 1 '58 Chevy Impala and a really great looking '41 Cadillac too!! There are a couple other Redding and local car shots too. Of course more Sunset shots, Whiskeytown Lake, Flag/Sun, Ricky, etc, shots too. Hope you enjoy one and all, eh!!

Later, Butch