The Weekend Roundup, 'F'

Good Friday afternoon! It's again time to participate in Tom's fun meme, The Weekend Roundup. The sixth letter is featured and my past beckons...Starts with "F." "F"ull. A Favorite.

Begins with 'F' includes Family, and it looks like a Fun Family Full of love! The date is 22 Aug. 1976 where we were in town for the 50th wedding anniversary weekend of my grandparents, Ralph and Agnes. This is at the Holiday Inn in Steubenville Ohio. The Families were of my Father from East Hartford, CT and his sister, my Aunt Terry from Fargo North Dakota. It was a Fun time!

How about a photo from 23 Dec. 1980, Flying from Jacksonville to West Palm Beach Florida we have an early morning look ar the Rolls-Royce RB211 jet engine, this type of engine referred to as a Fanjet or Turbo Fan (really :)

President Ford, the 38th President of the US, has a city park named for him in Omaha, Nebraska. Although he was a House Representative member for Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1949-1973, he was actually born in a house at 32nd & Woolworth in Omaha. 

Here is a 1955 Ford Fairlane (another 'F' could be Fifty-Five...)

A Favorite. Just a recent look at the center of Ansonia Connecticut at the corner of Bridge and Main Streets. Ths long Southerly sun offers a a soft leafless tree shadow. Have a great week all!

The Weekend Roundup, 'E'

Friday arrives and I am now ready to participate in Tom's fun meme, The Weekend Roundup. The second vowel is featured today, and with a bit of creativity, my prompts are revealed...

Starting with 'E' is Expansive. Our son took a business trip recently to the large Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. This is his view from the American 777 setting up for the final approach. With a metro population of 12 million, Rio is also Enormous! Cam will be the first to tell you business trips like his are far from glamorous - but at least there's that view out the window...

Elevation also begins with 'E'. Here is my dad (age 10) at the Continental Divide, I believe in 1938 inColorado. 8262 ft. = 2519 meters above sea level.   

I'm guessing on the same trip in 1938, they drove up to the low oxygen summit of Pike Peak outside Colorado Springs. 14,109 ft = 4,300 M. Grandma and dad look ok but hopefully free of the effects of hypoxia at that Elevation...

A Favorite. Nothing fancy but a bird, plump with winter plumage sitting on the forsythia works. Patti captured this avian out the patio sliding door. Have a great week all!

The Weekend Roundup - 'P'

Friday has arrived, so we are now ready for Tom's fun meme, The Weekend Roundup. The 16th letter offers possibilities  (the 17th fewer alas :) and the archives have found a few for my entry this week...

Beginning with 'P' includes Pond, this one at Witek Park in neighboring Derby, CT. Full disclosure though - this was taken this week, last year. We have not had such color this year, the foliage looking as it has in 2011. So we can enjoy the mix of autumnal colors from 2018.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike also starts with 'P'.  This photo was taken in 1945, the era when the seven tunnels on the Turnpike were single bore. In 1968, two tunnels were bypassed and the other five had a second tunnel added, so the traffic jams before the tunnels that existed in rural Pennsylvania in the Summer became a memory. The ladies are my Grandma Agnes with my Aunt Terry...

This is part of a Holding Pattern. Daughter Allegra captured this upon returning from a high school trip to Paris and London and on her way to landing at JFK airport in New York. The story goes like this: a couple of weeks before she left, we were online looking at the rudimentary flight trackers and on a rainy day, so many of the flights were in massive holding patterns as their arrivals were slowed up due to the weather, Fast forward to her trip home, when she got off the bus when we picked her up, the first thing she said was "Daddy, we were in a holding pattern!". I asked where, and she said "Groton" CT (Long Island Sound). I thought that was so cool where Daddy and daughter had a conversation about a subject that most road warriors hate - holding patterns and late arrivals!

A Favorite. Patti captured this female cardinal on the patio this morning. It was just taken through the sliding door to the patio. Given the lack of a peak on top, we think she was a nestling this Spring - next year the pointy peak will be there. Have a great week all!