The Grey Line

Just a shot taken while I was stuck in a 10 miles-long line due to some constructions on freeway I-65...

Thunderstrike

Got some flash lightnings from Kansas City... they were kinda far, but here they are!

The Ghost

Last night, while I was trying to capture some lightnings from that terrible thunderstorm that came over Kansas City, instead of capturing those creepy lightnings, I got this creepier image... it looks to me like a ghost!

Warm Rooi

Vir vandag probeer ek 'n bietjie eksperimenteer, net om jou reaksies te sien! Wel, hier gaan ons ... Ek gebruik 'n ander taal en ek wonder of jy weet watter een ... het 'n raai! Hierdie foto is in die agterplaas geneem, was baie blomme van hierdie aard, en natuurlik, verskillende kleure. Dankie vir die besoek!

Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart Catholic Church from Galveston, TX

Clouds and concrete

A quick shot while approaching Houston on route US-59

Fresh Air From the Past

Shot taken in Galveston, TX

Who's the Boss?

The newcomer Andy and of course Alley...

Population: 0

A shot from a New Mexico's rest area on freeway I-10...

Today's joke:

Three nuns were attending an Astros baseball game. Three men were sitting directly behind. Because their habits were partially blocking the view, the men decided to badger the nuns, hoping that they'd get annoyed enough to move to another area.
In a very loud voice, the first guy said:
"I THINK I'M GOING TO MOVE TO UTAH. THERE ARE ONLY 100 NUNS LIVING THERE!"
The second guy said also loudly:
"I WANT TO GO TO MONTANA. THERE ARE ONLY 5O NUNS LIVING THERE!"
The third guy said:
"I WANT TO GO TO IDAHO. THERE ARE ONLY 25 NUNS LIVING THERE!"
The mother superior turned around, looked at the men, and in a very sweet and calm voice, said:
"Why don't y'all go to hell... there aren't any nuns there!"

We Are the Orange!

Three shots from the Houston Dynamo's Sunday game...

We Are the Orange!





Hey, Dynamo just scored... again!




Celebrating the victory





Today's joke:



A Russian and an Irish wrestler were set to square off for the Olympic gold medal. Before the final match, the Irish wrestler's trainer came to him and said:
"Now, don't forget all the research we've done on this Russian. He's never lost a match because of this 'pretzel' hold he has. Whatever you do, do not let him get you in that hold! If he does, you're finished."
The Irishman nodded in acknowledgment.
As the match started, the Irishman and the Russian circled each other several times, looking for an opening. All of a sudden, the Russian lunged forward, grabbing the Irishman and wrapping him up in the dreaded pretzel hold. A sigh of disappointment arose from the crowd and the trainer buried his face in his hands, for he knew all was lost. He couldn't watch the inevitable happen.
Suddenly, there was a long, high-pitched scream, then a cheer from the crowd and the trainer raised his eyes just in time to watch the Russian go flying up in the air. His back hit the mat with a thud and the Irishman collapsed on top of him, making the pin and winning the match.
The trainer was astounded. When he finally got his wrestler alone, he asked:
"How did you ever get out of that hold? No one has ever done it before!"
The wrestler answered:
"Well, I was ready to give up when he got me in that hold but at the last moment, I opened my eyes and saw this pair of testicles right in front of my face. I had nothing to lose so with my last ounce of strength, I stretched out my neck and bit those babies just as hard as I could."
The trainer exclaimed:
"That's what finished him off?"
"Not really. You'd be amazed how strong you get when you bite your own nuts!"

Driving on the Red Planet

Maybe the picture doesn't reflect the real reddish color that I've encountered. Well, it's not for the first time, but this strange effect I've seen only in Texas, and of course it comes from the reddish sunset, but the main condition to get such an effect is that there must be clouds above you, so the red reflection will give ya the feeling that you're on a sci-fi scene, somewhere on another planet... I must notice that the picture is untouched (no manipulations).
Thanks for stopping by!

Today's joke:

At the end of the tax year, the IRS office sent an inspector to audit the books of a local hospital.
While the IRS agent was checking the books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too little left to be of any use?"
"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to the bandage company and every now and then they send us a free box of bandages."
"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left over after setting a cast on a patient?"
"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of plaster."
"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all the little foreskins and send them to the IRS Office, and about once a year they send us a complete d*ck."

Waterlily

That'a just another shot from Frankenmuth, MI - a yellowish waterlily! It's been a while since I was so close to a real waterlily...

These Colors Don't Run

Another shot from Frankenmuth, MI

At Bronner's

Yesterday I had the chance to be pretty close to this german-american town named Frankemuth, and of course I didn't miss the opportunity to visit it once again, starting with the very first objective, "Bronner's" - the largest Christmas store in the world. I'm sure many of you know already about this store, but what you don't know, as well as myself til I got there, now they have international sections, and I was surprised to see a Romanian shelf, or I should say a whole isle of Romanian made Christmas decorations. Along with the Romanian shelf, there were only few more european countries with their own products, like Germany, Poland and Slovakia. For example France has its own shelf, but their products are either made in the U.S.A., either China. God, I'm really tired of these chinese products! Here are some pictures from the Romanian shelf.

Rough Sea

A shot from Galveston, the day when the ocean was really rough...

Today's joke:

As a bagpiper, I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man who had no family or friends. The funeral was to be held at a cemetery in the remote countryside and this man would be the first to be laid to rest there.
As I was not familiar with the backwoods area, I became lost and being a typical man, did not stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late. I saw the backhoe and the crew who were eating lunch but the hearse was nowhere in sight.
I apologized to the workers for my tardiness and stepped to the side of the open grave where I saw the vault lid already in place.
I assured the workers I would not hold them up for long but this was the proper thing to do. The workers gathered around, still eating their lunch. I played out my heart and soul.
I played and I played like I'd never played before, from Going Home and The Lord is My Shepherd to Flowers of the Forest . As I played the workers began to weep. I closed the lengthy session with Amazing Grace and walked to my car.

As I was opening the door and taking off my coat, I overheard one of the workers saying to another...
"Sweet Jaysus, Mary 'n Joseph, I have never seen nothin' like that before and I've been puttin' in septic tanks for 22 years."

Mississippi River (2)

Another shot from my trip along the Mississippi River, this one being from Guttenberg, Iowa.

Today's joke:

During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the director:
- What is the criteria that defines a patient to be institutionalized?
- Well, said the director, we fill up a bathtub, and we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask him to empty the bathtub.
- Oh, I understand, said the visitor. A normal person would choose the bucket as it is larger than the spoon or the teacup!
- Noooooooo! answered the director. A normal person would pull the plug!!!