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Pictures of the Week
10 Weeks of Graphical Display # 6

Week 11,2003 --- Week 20,2003
9 March --- 17 May

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Week 11, 2003 9-15 March Photo Notes: Some people used call the Phantom fighter-bomber a 'Rhino'. Like the animal it has a certain brute strength about it. This "gate guard" is at the intersection of Lancaster Boulevard and Sierra Highway, in Lancaster. I would guess that it is the star centerpiece of the "Aerospace Walk of Fame" here.	Week 12, 2003 16-22 March Photo Notes: A Tall Ship at dockside, in San Francisco. I'm not sure, but it may be the U.S.C.G. Eagle.
Week 13, 2003 23-29 March Photo Notes: The annual Poppy Festival in Lancaster isn't for a few weeks yet, but they have already started blooming. Silly flowers, don't they have a calendar? It was a beautiful warm and windless day, and the poppies were gorgeous in the hills just west of Palmdale. <	Week 14, 2003 30 March - 5 April Photo Notes: Out to the east of Palmdale, and just on the border of the foothills to the mountains there, is an old set of ruins. Early in the last century there was an experimental utopian community, Llano del Rio. It failed, as they all do, and now, eighty years or so later, it's just some ghostly ruins off the Highway 138.
Week 15, 2003 6-12 April Photo Notes: A Red dawn through my father's kitchen window. Red Sky at Night - Sailor delight; Red Sky in the morning, Sailor take warning.	Week 16, 2003 13-19 April Photo Notes: This image is all over the internet. I'm not sure where it comes from, but it's one of the most remarkable photographs I've see of this war.
Week 17, 2003 20-26 April Photo Notes: This image is scanned from a picture I took back in 1998 at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. It is a fun festival - very busy and wooden boats are beautiful. They make many of the plastic (fiberglass) boats leave for the festival, so as to free up space for visiting wood boats. This boat is unusual in that it is square rigged, which isn't often seen in vessels this small. It's probably a lot less trouble than a standard sloop rig on a long downwind crossing.	Week 18,2003 27 April - 3 May Photo Notes: Coming back from Martinez on Monday, I was pursued the entire way by a minor storm. Here the late afternoon sun is glinting off the windmill's producing electric power in the hills above Tehachapi.
Week 19, 2003 4-10 May Photo Notes: Edwards Air Force Base now has a museum. Inside there is this mural on a wall, showing some of the many many aircraft that have flown here. Many of these vehicles are in the museum at Wright Patterson Air Force, but there are some here, some parked just outside the museum. A good number were Air Force/Naca/Nasa collaborations .	Week 20, 2003 11-17 May Photo Notes: Thinking of you.