After the Storm

Some nice light outside the library this morning after the rain stopped.

Vintage Christmas

Since the holiday is almost here how about a few vintage Christmas pictures from the 1960s and 1970s from Flickr?

1968


1970


1970


1967


1968


Me, my mom and dad in 1968

The Founding Fathers

They always help.

Picture Picture

Today's old timey view out the window at work.

Fuck Mike Huckabee

If you search "Fuck Huckabee" on Twitter right now the results are interesting.

Driving in Russia is Insane

I guess cars in Russia tend to have dashboard cameras because there is a lot of insurance fraud over there. Also, people appear to not obey traffic laws as strictly as we do in the good ole USA. What does that give you? The funniest video of the year.

Golfing

Usually I am the one taking pictures when we golf. Yesterday I asked my buddy Chris to take some shots of me as I teed off. The follow through looks OK, the shot was low, started right and curved left and ended up on the fairway. I'll take it.

Pretty Day Yesterday

It is usually balmy in the Carolinas compared to the northern parts of the country but the last few days have been special. The high temps this weekend were all in the low 70s. Yesterday I played nine holes at the Revolution Park golf course here in Charlotte. The sky was especially pretty. This is a panorama taken in the middle of the ninth fairway.

Dadgum

This guy posts the most amazing travel photos on Flickr.

Old Slides

I think I may have identified another person from my collection of old slides from Michigan. This slide is dated 1954 and the gentleman on the right is identified as Ken Granquist on the yellowed note paper that came with the slides.



Today I found an obituary from January of this year for a Kenneth H. Granquist, an 87 year old retired Lutheran pastor. Comparing the slide photo with the photo on the obituary and the fact that he was a pastor in Grand Rapids, MI sometime after he was ordained in 1952 leads me to think it is the same person.

So far he is the fifth person I have identified from these slides. The other four people I have identified are Theodore and Emma Schmalzried and Claude and Gertrude Schmalzried.