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Winter 2008

I need to get out and take some photos.  Yesterday was the first day in over two weeks that I felt really good.  So  I will be going out and looking for targets of opportunity soon.

Here is a photo from an ice storm we had awhile ago.   It’s pretty bad when you have to resort to this, isn’t it?  But it’s a new photo anyway that I have never put up and it’s kind of nice.  It has a certain symmetry

Or not.

This past weekend was a real eye opener as far as the economy is concerned.  We went to a Christmas party that is packed every year and there were quite a few empty tables this year.  Then we went to see The Nutcracker and there were very many empty seats at the Saturday evening performance.

It’s not looking good sports fans.  Have you noticed anything like this in your neighborhood?

But it said on the news that people are still buying Christmas trees.  So that’s good.  Maybe they are just staying home and enjoying them more.

I hope so.

University of Richmond Spiders in FCS Championship Game

I enjoy taking walks at the University of Richmond and taking photos of the lovely campus. It’s practically in our backyard. So tonight we were happy to see the U of R football team has made it into the national championship game and will play Montana next week. This is Division AA football in case you were wondering about that. Montana? U of R? Who?
Congratulations to them. They really cut this one kind of close by winning by one point in the last eleven seconds.
I was watching the first half before we went out to see The Nutcracker and it didn’t look very promising for the Spiders.

Glad to see they hung in there.

My Grandchildren And Santa/ Kellie Pickler/ Santa Baby

Kellie Pickler

Play Santa Baby

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Kathryn must have read my blog about Santa being an alien because she seems a little upset here. Or maybe she’s just thinking about the Dow Jones average. I don’t know. But Charlie seems to be taking it all in stride.
Sarah sent me this photo today and it is such a wonderful reminder that Christmas activities are happening. Somewhere.
I am much better today and looking forward to taking some photos of Christmas lights downtown this weekend.  The dark storms have passed and there is bright light outside again as well as lots of fluffy clouds.

What a difference a day can make.

Did Aliens Land This Morning?/ X-Files Theme

Mark Snow

Play Materia Primoris from The X-Files

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There’s a very thick cloud cover out here this morning.  It’s not raining much but the unrelenting clouds are so thick there is very little daylight.  And my broadband connection is not working either (so I am on the laptop).  Seldom do we have days this dark around here.  They have an eerie quality.

A familiar environment has a different cast.  And it’s quiet too except for the sound of rain hitting the pavement and cars running through small pools of water that have converged everywhere.   There are sodden leaves on the ground.  Trees have thrown up their limbs in despair.

And when the internet stops coming to my house I start assuming it’s not working anywhere.  Throw in a couple of Tivo’d Frontline broadcasts from last evening about the sorry state of the world and I start imagining there has been a major disaster somewhere that has destroyed it.

Maybe today is the day.  Maybe the aliens have landed.

Do you ever have apocaplyptic dreams?

They have huge ships.  One will come over the horizon and be overhead while the back end is still not in sight.   In my dreams we are always running around in little rebel bands trying to shoot them.  But I suppose it’s possible they are already here.  Maybe they have integrated into the population.  Or maybe they live at the bottom of the ocean.

Maybe Santa Clause started out as an alien.  His sleigh was actually a space ship.  He and his brothers and sisters lived underneath the North Pole at the bottom of the ocean.  But he got tired of waiting for the signal to invade.  Eventually his group leader said it would be alright if he went out once a year and visited with the inhabitants of the planet.

But he would have to leave presents in order to distract the humans while he made his getaway and he would be required to wear a red suit  in honor of his ancestors.

Who were from Mars of course.

Maybe.  Who knows?   I’m just adding another layer of  weirdness to a story that is already pretty weird.     There’s  a guy up there at the North Pole who makes toys all year long with his wife and a bunch of elves.   The he loads them on a sleigh that is pulled by flying reindeer.   And he’s a fat, jolly old guy but his preferred method of entering  the home is to jump down the chimney.

It’s all pretty strange.  But then life is strange.   Hopefully the rain will turn to snow at some point and things will start looking a lot nicer outside.  Right now it looks like we are caught in a time warp on Halloween night.

And that’s not the place we want to be.