HIDIN' OUT WITH DIAMOND ED

Back in 2000, when I first got my new camera, the Canon XL1, I took it up to Petaluma to my friend Franks and took it out behind his house to kick the tires and light the fires. At that time Frank and his wife Judy had about 7,000 orchids growing in the greenhouse, and several hundred outdoor orchids growing about the yard. I started shooting the yard and eventually worked my way into the greenhouse. See for yourself...



Also about this time Duke Wilson paid me a visit in his Mitsubishi VR- Spider, a high performance luxury car that Mitsubishi put out for a while. Production of the car was too expensive to endure so they only built about 500 of them. He was good enough to demo it for me and I shot the demo with my new camera. I met Duke in Lakeport back in 1979 and he was good enough to teach me the painting business, an honest way to make a living just about anywhere one might find ones self. The last time I spoke to him he had a Candy Apple Red Corvette, being built in a speed shop up in Sacramento. So far its up to 500 horsepower. I'll have video of it as soon as he gets it out of the shop. They've been working on it for over a year now.



Here's a video of a former neighbor of mine, Jeanette, and her free-fall adventure in Cloverdale. I don't think I would be able to muster the courage to do this, but she makes it look easy. The company, http://www.skydivesf.com/index.htm has a system of videotaping your event that surpasses any taping service I've ever seen...



Here's Jeanette again, this time she's skippering me around the flooded trailer park at Christmas time 04. Ever so often we find ourselves inundated with water. All it takes is a little wind, a high tide, and we're off to the "boat races". Jeanettes' folks, Jessie and Doralece, are in the video, busily salvaging Jessies' motorcycles.



I was at a cyber cafe called Respectech in Ukiah and its really the ideal cyber cafe in that they sell computers, repair computers, and councel newbies in an extremely comfortable environment with free wi-fi and 110. Beyond all that they serve up a wonderful banana split, serve food and stay open untill 11 pm...and they're right around the corner from The Coffee Critic that closes at seven pm, that's how I found out about them.



I went to The Coffee Critic in Ukiah with the intention of getting some computer work done at my favorite table. However, a band was all set up to play and I decided to go ahead and tape a few tunes and put my work off untill later...



Anyway that's the plan. I thought I could get some privacy up here in Ukiah, but it just didn't work out that way. So I'm heading back to Marin later tonight. My grandaughter is having her birthday at a skating rink in Antioch and I want to be there for that. Soooooooooooooooo,I'll say goodnight,
diamond ed for kfmlnooze.com in Ukiah

Sunday! Sunday! It's time for my grandaughter Anyssa's 8 th birthday at the roller rink in Antioch.



Here's a slideshow of my grandaughter Anyssa's 9 th birthday party in Antioch.