My dad flew a plane through the two towers of this church in the early 1940's when he was stationed at Torbay.

Kalie & me on Saturday...wedding dress shopping. This was going to be it...until we had our appointment at the 2nd store and she found 'THE ONE'! =)

My DS doing pull ups in an old abandoned building in the desert.

Barbara3, are you Lal's daughter?

Another foggy morning pic, DH and Allie.

Barbara do you have a photo of that? I posted a photo of this church on a local newsgroup and people were talking about that (I had never heard of it before).

Sandy, what a sweet picture!!

Here's my DD and her SO, skiing in Utah last week:

There's no photo of it but Ian Sparkes did a painting that depicts it. Dad worked with him on it so he could get the plane right sitting in the air.

cjd63, yes my dad was Lal Parsons. How did you know him?

Oh Wow!!! Your pictures are wonderful. I just found pictures falling off the end, so I viewed back to page 60. I am going back to look for others. Thanks so much for sharing that beauty.
Thanks, Lexi

DH and I framed up a 6x20 fishing dock over the weekend. It was NOT fun working on that slope... The pond is only about half full---we are in a serious drought---but we needed to do this before it finishes filling. (The wet bank may look like the level has dropped. In reality, it is still rising...filling from below ground!)

On the left (more in the foreground in the first pic) is a waterfall we are working on. It will drain all of the rain from the house, as our gutters are tied into underground pipe. For now, we had to use bricks to hold the plastic down, as it is supposed to storm later today. We are praying for rain!

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An old one,grandson's favorite toys

GREAT pictures, every one,

Interesting, Barbara and cjd63!

LINDA

He reminds me of Lily Tomlin in that big rocking chair on Laugh In...remember?

Socks, that's just what we thought! When he got in the chair he started sliding backwards on that slanted seat. I wish I'd had the camera ready to catch the expression on his very surprised face.

Linda

Linda, how tall was the standing figure?

Susan, I really don't know how tall the "man" was. I wish I'd asked DH to stand next to him for comparison. The chairs were huge. Here I am in the chair.

Linda

That's so cute! I would find it fun to look small once in a while. :-)

Here is a link to the painting for Barbara3 of her dad flying the plane. It is the second one from the bottom.

I just think that is so cool!

Here is a link that might be useful: Till I Return

Thanks for finding the picture, Vicki. Even though he was quite ill at the time, dad signed the first 300 prints of this painting.

And that is exactly the way he did it. Ian painted over that plane a number of times before he got it right and Dad approved. The lettering on the plane, etc. are correct to the last detail. However, there was no car or woman. It's supposed to be Mom waving him goodbye as he flew off to war - very romanticized, hence the title of the piece - but that wasn't the way it was.