Weekly Winners.

(The wonderful Lotus started this...Woots to Lotus!)


Crafts yesterday at church.
Frost on the car. In Tucson.

Snow in the Catalinas above 6500 feet. Fog in Tucson.

Very foggy in town.

Zach found his book about himself in second grade...look closely -- that is a drawing of a TV falling on his brother's head. Yeah, that really happened.

My Mona Lisa, or Tess as a crank.

I love the big sky and clouds.

Snow on the Rincon Mountains.

I know I took these photos a couple weeks ago, but this week I did some cropping and special effects on them, so they are new photos of AMARC -- the facility in Tucson where they mothball or disassemble planes. There are thousands of planes sitting in the desert.

Sigh.

You should think about reading the rest of this guy's comment.

As for me, I am very tired of the military being endlessly debated and argued and used as a political bludgeon by people of every political stripe.

clipped from mitchlewis.net Is America at War? This picture from today’s Kansas City Star echoes – in Marine fashion – a sentiment that I often hear from Soldiers: America isn’t at war; the Army is. Politicians and pundits don’t always understand what Soldiers mean by that. It isn’t about a draft or who is serving in uniform or taxes or material sacrifices at home. It isn’t even about differing opinions about the way ahead. What most Soldiers mean is that the people seem to have lost heart. Soldiers live by the warrior ethos: I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade behind. These are the values they live by. Time and time again, they throw themselves into the breach to accomplish what needs to be done. Soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors are enduring extreme hardship and danger to accomplish the mission they’ve been given in Iraq and Afghanistan.