Tuesday, September 11, 2007
classic...
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Seems like it's only fitting to put the picture my daughter took of a Belgian Waffle (in Brussels) on this blog...
Friday, January 06, 2006
A calendar for January
picture courtesy of Tina...
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Windows Live Local: Where I used to Live...
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
The Blow Hole Field Trip: Trona. before the demonstration "blow"
This pipe is connected to a 40-50 foot deep hole where explosives had been set off a week or so ago - and now the compressed air is forcing the water and gems out...
ssshhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
"foosh"
blowin'
vic, tina, steve on their way to get stuff after the pipe has shot out all the stuff...
people scrambling for stuff after the "shooting"
definitely hanksite. yeah, it's hanksite. kmart has good underwear....
what IS that? maybe a rock?
Steven among the blowholians...
Vic and Steve...
Steven...
Monday, October 17, 2005
Tina, with our rented Yukon below...
Jeff the Explorer :)
They're making it look like I'm pushing them in...
Tina, Steve and I looking at what we figured to be a mine entrance on one of the Pinnacle "saddles"
eerie - the paper from the BLM says that this area was used for many motion pictures and TV shows... see http://www.desertusa.com/Thingstodo/ttdtrails/du_ttd_trona.html
and ...
http://virtualguidebooks.com/SouthCalif/SouthernDeserts/SearlesLake/AmongTronaPinnacles.html
and ...
http://virtualguidebooks.com/SouthCalif/SouthernDeserts/SearlesLake/AmongTronaPinnacles.html
Pinnacles a little closer - you can't get a sense of the size yet...
More Trona Pinnacles as we approach...
Trona Pinnacles in the Searles Valley (between Death Valley and China Lake/Ridgecrest)
Tina and I after the brine pool fun...
Mrs. B (GHCHS Chemistry Dept. head) and present and former students... Tina is second from right.
Pink Halite (salt) crystals, big ones, detached...
