Follow Me Friday... F is for Family

Here are some delightful current photos of my family here in Podunk.  Hope you enjoy.

 The cutest kid in the universe, my step grand daughter Izabella the great.

 My Step Son Josh and Step Grand Daughter Queen Izabella.

 Me, and yes I am balancing a book, on the creator Willi Messerschmidt and his airplanes, on top of my head.

 My Wife Naila Moon and Grand Daughter.

 Me, no I am not drunk officer, just had some Iced tea, that's all.

 My wife and the cute kid, see a pattern here?

My wife and her daughter Natasha.

First Fall in Missouri, and walk to the podunk library

Our first Fall in Podunk Missouri.  These photos were taken during my walk to the public library, then on my way to my mother in laws house.

An evening of Live Music and Art

Last night, my wife and I went to Jefferson College, in Hillsboro Missouri to attend a free Jazz concert and live art presentation.

The first hour of the presentation was a contemporary Jazz group called Koplantno, depending on the day of the week, and which concert you attend, the name will mean a variety of things from the Hawaiian word for sugar that is an homage to their Polynesian drummer to it being Kono's Plant, not Dano's or ChinHo's or Steve O's, but Kono's.

The jazz is a mix of styles of Jazz greats such as Buddy Collette and his swinging shepherds, Buddy Rich, Dave Brubeck, Chuck Mangonie and Nelson Rangel.

The Jazz can be very laid back, or very aggressive and contemporary.  The Quartet features Brian Lewis Smith on Trumpet, Keys and Laptop, Drew Morton on Bases and Synthis, Rob Barner on Drums, Samples and Vibraphone, and Joel Vanderheyden on Saxophone.

The second half of the presentation featured a live digital movie created on the spot, featuring an animated character named Stubby McGee a stick figure who walks through a world that constantly changes, yet Stubby manages to move forward, never stopped by what changes.

The presentation is amazing.

Here is a sample of KoplantNo live from the performance at Jefferson College, last night.

Some photos

What follows is a mix of some recent photos

One of the local gas stations getting into the Halloween mood.

My most recent model, the Academy B-24 Liberator with markings from the old MPC Profile series kit, and hand painted wing stripes.

Two final photos of the forest at Convergys Parking Lot, beautiful.

Two photos of the flowers blooming at Convergys.

Two photos of me, by my wife.  I shaved my hair in support of my Nephew Lane, who is receiving therapy for Leukemia and was afraid of losing his hair.  In the second photo I am wearing my new glasses, I look like Drew Carrey.

Four photos taken at a special retreat here in Missouri.  It is beautiful and unspoiled and a place you really can get away from the maddening crowd.

My mother in Law in a prayerful moment.

Detailed shot of the Full moon, a few nights back.

Last two shots, of the cutest little kid on the planet, my step grand daughter Izabella the amazing.  Please note, in the second photo she is wearing one of my old work shirts from when I worked at the Auraria campus Bookstore.  The shirt was about five times too large for her.

into the forest

These photos are of a forest that is along side the parking lot, where i  work in Arnold Missouri.  For the past week, I have been going into this forest, and these photos come from those journeys.