What's your flag look like?

I haven't had time to go shoot since my vacation/recession began, but here's one I took a few years ago in a small southern Oklahoma town. With the Fourth of July nearing, I figured it was a good time to show it off. I'm thinking I may have to drag my family down there for a photo by this. Hope it's still there.

I have been busy working on my cattle drive book and am wrapping it up. It has been an enjoyable project. More details will be coming over the next few weeks.

Oh and is it hot out or what?!!! Happy Tuesday!

He's a champion!

Omar Martinez of Joshua, Texas is the 2009 World Champion of Miniature Bucking Bulls. He's got spirit, that's for sure. I posted a photo a few 'blogs' ago showing him sharing his ride experience. (Be sure to see the youtube video below that I found online. It tells a bit about why these kids do this).

The photos I shot are available to buy. Click the photo at the right and it will link you over to the shopping gallery. I have priced the photos extremely low since my intention was not to go and shoot this to sell, but I have been getting requests for them. Please understand, I can't afford to go and print images and mail them to everyone who is emailing me. The cost of the photos will help me offset the cost of my shopping site and the time I took to upload them. The images are mailed directly from the lab to you.

Hey Margie!

This vintage flag with only 48 stars I think is around $75, what a buy!
Italian plastic molded chairs. It said the black one is sold.
A vintage movie poster featuring the now deceased Farrah Fawcett.
I'm a sucker for green vases, this one is beautiful.
More vases. Very fresh color!
This is NOT ikea! I just found this online and thought of you and your recent trip to Ikea. Lots of fun things and not priced bad either. But, always remember to check your own local junk, antique, thrift, goodwill stores to see if they have something comparable. Besides you boost your local economy that way.
But go look at this is not ikea (dot) com..I think you can click on my post title and it'll link over. Here's some neat things, including a Farrah Fawcett movie poster.
Oh and Margie ...neener,neener, I got a "new chair" too...I'll post pic later! I've given fair warning to my family to stay out of my chair!

The old church ... again

Here's another one from that day drive in May over in Cotton County.
I had forgot that I was going to post it. Just a reminder to keep the faith, even on a Saturday!

They come in 3s

The other day when Ed McMahon died, I said at work, that happens in threes. Then today I hear of Farrah Fawcett, but the shocker was to hear of Michael Jackson. The first thing I did was to call my sister. When her son was in elementary school, heck, he's in his 30s now, we used to embarrass him to no end driving into school parking lot and picking him up, singing at the top of our lungs Thriller. When the Michael Jackson dolls came out, we bought them up! Over the years, moving and other things, including the whole sordidness of his past, well we eventually sold the dolls, etc. For less than what we paid for them.
But I reminded my sister of the LaserDisc she bought of Thriller back in the 1980s, so she's searching furiously for it. She just moved so many of her things are still packed.
But, she's willing to part with the LaserDisc for the right price. If you are interested, email or post me a comment. Once she uncovers it, we'll get a photo online. Now mind you, if you are looking at this as a way to play it, you have to have the discplayer. Aside from that, the artwork on those old disc jackets are awesome. Those unfamiliar with what I am talking about should know that the jackets are hard. When you put the disc in the machine, it would eject the "album" into the player and the jacket would come out and you put it aside while watching the movie. The jackets are awesome artwork from movies back then. She's got several Clint Eastwood Westerns and others, oh yes, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid and The Sting.
Aside from all that, not sure what to feel about Michael Jackson's death. He was an incredible artist and his legacy will live on through his music.
Farrah's death and Ed's death, maybe those will be lessons of life for us. Farrah, as much as I can remember, was never portrayed with ugliness, and I don't mean the physical kind ..but to be a celebrity for so long and while there were problems, we always saw her as a beacon of hope. Ed, his lesson, always be careful with your money. He sure had a rough past couple of years, didn't he?