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2013
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Belize Quiz: Do You Know What This Is? Zoomed in a little Here are a few hints: The bird is a Kiskadee The picture was taken in Belize It is not the Kiskadee's nest Visual hint below Another Hint: The picture above is a covered highway (of sorts) This tree is not being damaged And t...
04/30/2013
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Clouds Hiding the Sun Early in the morning trying to catch the sunrise, but the clouds on the horizon kept the sun covered. It was still plenty warm and humid. I was quite comfortable sitting in the beach chair waiting for the sun to finally break rise above the clouds. I was the only one willing...
04/29/2013
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Flowers Modified with Picasa 3 This is a large grouping of flowers that were at the entrance to Kanantik Resort in Belize. This is the original photo: This is modified with HDR-ish: Seems a little sharper, especially the tears in the leaf. This is modified with HDR-ish to a higher degree: ...
04/29/2013
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Clouds from Above I took these shots from the 737 on the way to Belize. Nothing like being above the storm clouds. It was quite interesting passing through the clouds on the way down to land. There was a little bit of turbulence that felt like a mini roller coaster. Actually there was turbulenc...
04/28/2013
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A Few Flowers from Our Belize Vacation I know what a few of the flowers are, but not all. The local workers that I asked didn't know what to call them either. But that is okay, named or not, they are really pretty. Most of them did not have a fragrance. That seemed a little odd, but maybe the fra...
04/27/2013
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Belize: Clouds and Cayes These pictures are taken from a plane while flying in Belize. In country you fly on little with 13 seats all the way down to 6 seats. The roads are pretty rough and sparse in a lot of the country, so it is much faster to hop on a small plane for a 10-30 minute flight. The...
04/26/2013
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Returning from Vacation I know this is in reverse order, but we got in about midnight last night and I was taking pictures out the plane window. One is a little blurry and one a little clearer. The camera was set on auto, so it had a delay to to get enough light and I was too tired to tire and ...
04/26/2013
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Storm Clouds Over Norman, Oklahoma While we were working out the clouds built up in the area. The storm never made it to us, but it sure was pretty. The sun was setting as we made our way to supper. The kids have to have Panda Express when we are there, so I got a chance to break out the camera ...
04/16/2013
April 10: Central Oklahoma Mini Ice Storm, Part 2 Just a few more pictures from our mini storm. At least in my area it was a mini storm. I know Northwestern Oklahoma got a pretty good (bad?) coating of ice. Pine tree with a light coating of ice. Weeds in the backyard of home ...
04/12/2013
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Central Oklahoma Mini Ice Storm I had a showing at 8:15 am about 15 miles North and 10 miles West of where I live yesterday morning. When I arrived at the property at 8:10 am the rain was still dripping of the trees, but by 9:15 am the ice was starting to coat the trees and everything else that ...
04/10/2013