To Watertown, Wisconsin with mom and dad for the wedding of Rose Davidson and Westley Markle on , then delayed the trip home because of Hurricane Milton.
Amtrak pulling in to Union Station as I got on the A line to the airport.Got revenge on the September 2024 United inflight hard sudoku, which I had messed up earlier that month.Chrysalises on the tree out front.Rare, a turtle in the front walk.Unrelated (presumably) turtle hiking through the grass.You forgot the first rule of baby changing.Strategic algae reserve.Crypto 2024 sticker at a rest area.Capybara sticker.Watermelon capybara.It's All Good Cafe.Endless hotel hallway.Nature walk.Milkweed.Fleabane.Pond and phragmites.Visiting the church the day before.When your fellowship hall capacity is a uint8_t.Mom and dad's anniversary dinner at the Red Circle Inn, where they had a reception dinner after their wedding.Big selection of languages on this changing table! They're missing diacritics on the Polish, though.Complimentary crème brûlée from the house.Pre-ceremony posing for photos.At the wedding.Exploring Riverfront Park in Watertown.Mom took this one.Roses at the gazebo.From on top of a fallen tree.Fleabane.Goose ornaments on the bridge.After the park we went to Literatus & Co. bookstore.Visiting the house where mom grew up, undergoing extensive renovations.Smokehouse.The old concrete tube.Greenhouse.Concrete poured 1998.The back woods after thinning."JFB" license plate.Fancy new rest area.Wind turbines outside.Exploring Bowling Green, KY where we hunkered down a few days.Baptist church on I-65.Cool car.Fruit of the Loom distribution center.Right next to a massive graveyard.Bowling Green Gardens.Walking around Basil Griffin Park. It's not really a walking park :(Fleabane as a close-cropped ground cover.Kids fishing.Western Kentucky University concrete canoe team.Somewhere there's a cowboy missing a hat.Memorials for people associated with the municipal parks. Presumably they're not buried here??This is what a park map looks like if you are a bat.There are no actual walking paths, just colored posts leading you along notional paths.Next stop, the Aviation Heritage Park.A "Huey" helicopter."Beware of blast".Tailhook.This F-4 Phantom flown by Dan Cherry shot down a Vietnamese MiG. The pilot Nguyễn Hồng Mỹ survived, and over 30 years later Cherry and Nguyễn reunited(!).Bunch of tubes and stuff in the landing gear bay."DATA BUS PANEL".Oh yeah here's the story. "After an intense five minute dogfight, Cherry and Feinstein scored their first kill. It was a camouflaged MiG-21 flown by Lieutenant Nguyen Hong My, who survived the crash and the war, and was later the guest of honor on April 16, 2009 when Aviation Heritage Park was formally opened to the public. This incredible story is chronicled in Cherry's book, My Enemy—My Friend."F-111.More tubes and stuff.This one is interesting. "This history of this aircraft is the history of the American manned space flight program. In April 1959, NASA announced the selection of seven men to compose the first class of American Astronauts. … Every one of these men flew #901."Exhibit on the Space Shuttle Atlantis.Flight simulator room, they weren't running though.The tops of the display cases made up like runways.B-52 ejection seat, very cool."Laundry: good clean fun".Fungus-covered stump at Baker Arboretum in Bowling Green.Mom with her new Aviation Heritage Park hat.Art is… eviscerating the patriarchy.Large barn doors artwork by Joe Downing.Purple leaves.What is this freaky flower.A large lawn at the arboretum.Not very wheelchair-accessible. We had to tackle these and similar steps.Frog on a bench.Cotton plant? Sure looks like it.Chair planters."Jack E. Lunt 1929 – 1991". "Pepper. Man's best friend. 1979 – 1996".Pan statue."Jerry E. Baker" (he of the arboretum) "1931 – 2017". "Shadow. Man's best friend. 2000 – 2013". "Buzzy. Man's best friend. 1996 – 2003".I made timelapse videos of some Florida traffic camera around the time of Hurricane Milton's landfall. This one is camera 888, SR-694 at I-275.I downloaded images from fl511.com once a minute, but many were identical or unchanged except for the timestamp, possibly because of electrical or network outages. This is camera 891, SR-694 at 9th St North A.Camera 897, SR-600 at Brighton Bay.Back in Florida, this tree at the shoreline was tipped over.Taking a walk to observe some hurricane damage.This sign had just been fixed after a car collision, now the board got blown away.Mount Trashmore.Fallen palm tree.Signpost had actually broken where it was rusted.Damaged parking canopy.Strangely, lots of palm trees break in the middle.Street light fallen to the ground.Grid of 5×2 LEDs.Little radome on top, PCB labels "GPS" and "LTE", SD card.Tree trunk twisted like a spiral fracture.Fallen wall.Fences busted up pretty good.Cool caterpillar on the rose plant.Halloween sticker from Literatus on my cryptic crossword book.
