Dave wrote:  Hi  Jim,  Not much to photograph here in upstate NY at this time. I thought  I would send you some shots of owls I took in recent years. First two Snowy Owls from north of the Rome area where we live. Next a Barred Owl from Orlando Wetlands in Florida. Then some Great Horned Owls I shot  at TGO. We sure will miss being at TGO this year.  Hopefully we will be back next year.   Dave

12 15 2020 Dave Cesari

12 15 2020 Dave Cesari

12 15 2020 Dave Cesari

12 15 2020 Dave Cesari

12 15 2020 Dave Cesari

Now, lets move from God’s birds to another falcon.  The Falcon 9 Rocket.

Sitting having a beautiful fried egg, berries, and honey this morning, the house shook and my ears, without hearing aids, rattled.  What happened? – Oh my goodness, a secret mission for the Falcon 9 rocket happened at the Space Center – not too far from our house.  To my driveway and front lawn I went. Oh, what is a Falcon 9 you ask?  Well I went to web and here is what I found:  “Falcon 9 was designed to compete with the Delta family of launchers in that it can lift payloads of up to 18,300 pounds to geostationary orbit. One payload it launched to low Earth orbit is Dragon, a spacecraft designed to carry crew and cargo to the International Space Station.”

Here is what I saw – not too impressive – not even a contrail and the rocket boom is over.

Then out of nowhere the contrail did appear. – I made this photo to show you what I saw through my binoculars.

Do you remember from my last post, Linda Somers sent me this photo to post. You can see more she sent on “Older Posts” by clicking at the bottom of the page

That rocket twisted my imagination to think moon – Look above at the photo Linda Somers sent me of the TGO Photo Club meeting  – well, I imagined my front lawn may be the moon & of course that is me standing there getting the honor from the club – I think old age hit my brain!

As you swing through life, imagine what is fun – then photograph it, draw & paint it, or just imagine it – enjoy.