Sorry for your loss, Dan and Clara. I can understand her not being able to beat the habit, it took me five attempts cold turkey to do it, and it was ROUGH.
I feel awful for those who have lost loved ones during this time, the grieving customs are all on hold at the moment.
DanNehmer wrote:
We lost a Dear One last night. Clara's mother left us after nearly 93 years! Short hospitalization due to complications with COPD, not Covid related. 78 years of smoking can do that to you; rumor within the family is she taught the Marlboro Man to smoke! She never could beat the habit, yet until the last couple years it really never impacted her quality of life; one of the lucky ones.
She will be missed, was full of life and lived it well. Mother of 11, 27 Grandchildren, 42 Grandchildren (if you include the 2 still in the oven) and 4 or 5 Great Grandchildren. One of our best memories was putting the then 77 year old on a horse and taking her for a ride in the Rocky Mountains west of Colorado Springs - it was the first time she was ever on a horse.
Since no one can travel, even the children who lived local couldn't visit her in the hospital so we doing the family gatherings via Zoom. Different and yet very helpful and meaningful. She understood the Body was only that, a body, and this life is only a stop on the way to being with the Lord. Knowing that is very comforting to all of us.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Sorry for your loss, Dan and Clara. I can understand her not being able to beat the habit, it took me five attempts cold turkey to do it, and it was ROUGH.
I feel awful for those who have lost loved ones during this time, the grieving customs are all on hold at the moment.
Edit to add TOPP, late cause Paypal had issues with payment..
Been keeping an eye on the weather, waiting for the perfect evening to capture this for an economic development client. Thursday's weather fit the bill!
DanNehmer wrote:
We lost a Dear One last night. Clara's mother left us after nearly 93 years! Short hospitalization due to complications with COPD, not Covid related. 78 years of smoking can do that to you; rumor within the family is she taught the Marlboro Man to smoke! She never could beat the habit, yet until the last couple years it really never impacted her quality of life; one of the lucky ones.
She will be missed, was full of life and lived it well. Mother of 11, 27 Grandchildren, 42 Grandchildren (if you include the 2 still in the oven) and 4 or 5 Great Grandchildren. One of our best memories was putting the then 77 year old on a horse and taking her for a ride in the Rocky Mountains west of Colorado Springs - it was the first time she was ever on a horse.
Since no one can travel, even the children who lived local couldn't visit her in the hospital so we doing the family gatherings via Zoom. Different and yet very helpful and meaningful. She understood the Body was only that, a body, and this life is only a stop on the way to being with the Lord. Knowing that is very comforting to all of us.
where was this taken Steven, i have to make a list of airshows where i am going to get my best chances of hopefully catching a porper vapor cone some day.....i always catch the rear end view of them
last year i was at the Duluth, Mn airshow, being at arrival day thursday and practice day i paid attention to the demo F-35, friday i was set up behind a building when the demo did his show, from behind the building i just caught the end of his high speed pass and saw just the end of some impressive vapor, thus noted
so the day i attended the airshow i set my self up at the complete opposite end of the field that i normally shoot at in preparation for his pass from left to right, well the bugger reversed his show, he now made the pass from right to left and i was at the wrong end so all i got was yet another rear end shot
where was this taken Steven, i have to make a list of airshows where i am going to get my best chances of hopefully catching a porper vapor cone some day.....i always catch the rear end view of them
Brian, I shot that back in 2017 at Wings over Houston chasing after a very particular vapor cone shot and that wasn't it. I wanted a front 3/4 shot with a full cone and blue skies. That shot came to be my 11 year/16 different aviation event shot. You can read about my struggle with that unicorn image here.
far148 wrote:
Brian, I shot that back in 2017 at Wings over Houston chasing after a very particular vapor cone shot and that wasn't it. I wanted a front 3/4 shot with a full cone and blue skies. That shot came to be my 11 year/16 different aviation event shot. You can read about my struggle with that unicorn image here.
awesome, Thank you for the link, great read in your hunt...just had to be Cleveland...last summer i was suppose to be my first trip to Cleveland airshow, had a room reserved at the double tree hilton the looks right out on the field, friday i was going to park my vehicle on the top floor of their parkade, was going to get shots from higher up (than the usual ground level shots)
but i wasn't able to attend ...seen vids from the show, again, the F-35 had some nice cones there, when we get back to airshows again i may just have to replace airshow London with Cleveland, Cleveland seems pretty consistent with vapor cones
your shots from 2012 look just like a set of shots i got in Duluth again in 2016, but again, the cone happened after the super hornet passed by me
Thank you all for the wonderful comments and well wishes. They are very much appreciated.
Jim, "not Temporal" is a wonderful description; Mom was always about the people, relationships and experiencing life. Certainly not caught up in the needs of the physical world at all. Looking back on family gatherings the conversation were never about science, technology, politics but instead about the people and life's experiences. And oh ya, on her 90th birthday she did the Segway Tour tour of downtown Indianapolis, it was about experiencing life.
And today we have experienced another first experience. We called an old friend Joe, someone we had been very close with during the 90's and who was part of a faith sharing group we (I met Clara, now my wife there along with some of the best friends I have ever had) participated in. Joe was an engineer for Allison Gas Turbines at that time (now Royals Royce) but followed a calling and is now a priest. He said the most wonderful memorial mass for Mom and included a wonderful homily that was truly from the heart, and it was all done virtually with 32 families in attendance. So Covid is changing how we live, but it is clear the Bug isn't stopping us from living life to the fullest!
So as the sun sets on yet another good day I am good, Clara is good, and the family is good. We are celebrating life and are at peace.
brian_sp wrote:
where was this taken Steven, i have to make a list of airshows where i am going to get my best chances of hopefully catching a porper vapor cone some day.....i always catch the rear end view of them
last year i was at the Duluth, Mn airshow, being at arrival day thursday and practice day i paid attention to the demo F-35, friday i was set up behind a building when the demo did his show, from behind the building i just caught the end of his high speed pass and saw just the end of some impressive vapor, thus noted
so the day i attended the airshow i set my self up at the complete opposite end of the field that i normally shoot at in preparation for his pass from left to right, well the bugger reversed his show, he now made the pass from right to left and i was at the wrong end so all i got was yet another rear end shot
I was on assignment last week in Midland, TX and while I was there, this MD-87 was being worked on. Seems it lost an engine as it was fighting a large grass fire in Ozana, TX on Wednesday.
When I left on Friday, they were still working on it.
I luck out tomorrow. Blue Angels and Thunderbirds are tomorrow doing allegedly an aerobatic flyover of Philly in honor of all the COVID-19 first responders, LE, EMS, FIRE, ED nursing and docs, all those folks who are 'boots on the ground" at the med units not but a crow-flying mile from where I live. I'll be on the apron of the Philly Art Museum to take some pics, and I"ll post them up here, good, bad or indifferent. God Bless 'em all.
...seen vids from the show, again, the F-35 had some nice cones there, when we get back to airshows again i may just have to replace airshow London with Cleveland, Cleveland seems pretty consistent with vapor cones
