Hurricane Katrina/Rita stuff

I went down to the gulf states on September 3 2005-and stayed there until Halloween-came home for a month, and went back to neworleans for 6 weeks over christmas and newyears-
This pic is in a Louisiana state "park"it might not have looked as bad if it wasn't right after a hurricane-but it was still a nasty swampy place-alligators and snakes and all sorts of stuff OhMY!

-yes I tried to poke it with a stick-its about 3-4 feet away, dont worry I fed it some saltines so it wouldnt try to eat me

and this is what happens when you have to live in a tent in mississippi/lousiana for 7 weeks while its a national disaster area , quite flattering I know
that was a house-I literally have hundreds of pics like this
p.s. thats Ron Topalinski(sp) he was pretty much my boss while I was in Gautier(pronounced gooschey...no really) Mississippi
there were boats that size 3 block inland on folks lawns
Navy Hovercraft-thingy
thats a floating casino(supposed to be in the water)-its probably heavy--yeah its from a helicopter, but Ron just gave me the pics, he was going to let me go up in with him but the FEMA commander was mean and said no
more helicopter pics
thats the I-10 freeway going over the lake potchatrain(sp) in the bottom corner
This was the sunset before hurricane Rita,the lower strip of clouds that blocks the color is one of the "fingers" of the hurricanes swirl
this was in texas, the hurricane camp was at this real pretty lake-I thought this sign was hilarious-this lake is seriously huge like 20 miles long and miles wide in spots-not really something you would be UN-aware of being close to

DarciMae

This is Darci, as you can see she is much much prettier than I, she is amazing-mostly cause she puts up with and likes me(yeah I think its weird too) this pic is the result of her asking if we could take a "nice one"

us at the spillway-she even jumped off

I like to take pictures of her
citygirl on a horse

Last.Years.CA.Trip

This awesome pic is from a Cali trip in Nov 06 with Tony Lang and his amanda(took the pic) its in the famous(ly gay) Castro district-hence the pose..and the sign
(can you find homeless guy)
We drove down there to see a few prodigious concerts: Bob Dylan and Kings of Leon in L.A at the old lakers stadium(comTON), then went to San Fransisco to see the Neil Young bridge street benefit concert, there were about a dozen bands playing acoustic my favorites were NIN(yes it was acousitc), Pearl Jam, FooFighters, deathcab for cutie and Neil of course it was greeeat!
I stupidly did not take pictures at aforementioned concerts....

just a pretty view, not sure what this warfs? name is, but you can see Alcatraz too if you turn the other direction

`notherone

RedWoods

This is the tallest tree in the world..according to the little sign on the path..its the Howard Libby tree in the Redwood Forest(CA)
I was there for work in july-august of 06, setup and managed satellite communications for a firefighting camp. It was pretty amazing...the Redwood Forest part, the firecamp thing is old news..Ive been to about 20 different ones in 8 different states over the last couple years
this is the ocean fog coming in over the RedWood Foreset during the morning

more redwoods-its pretty there


this is what a fire camp looks like..its noon

and this is how it looked when the fire was almost out