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This is the US Marine Corps C-130T Hercules called "Fat Albert". It accompanies the famed Blue Angels flight demonstration squad of the US Navy, and was passing low over our house last weekend.

Last Saturday I was mowing the lawn and as I did the Blue Angels passed over me only a few hundred feet off the ground and in show formation. It was terrifying and exhilarating at the same time! It was also the loudest thing I have ever heard in my life - they were so close I could read the writing on the side of the planes, and it shook the ground. We are not too far from Toronto where the Air Show was taking place, and this flyover was incredible!

After that, I grabbed the camera and Vanessa and I sat in the yard playing with Kordie and watching for more planes. We did that during the Air Show hours for the rest of Saturday and on Sunday, hoping they would come back.... but they didn't.

I took the original image @ Butterfly World
September 7th/2009
Coconut Creek, Florida, USA

Nikon D5000
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I used this short poem in my textured version, I love it, so I'm going to repost it; it goes perfectly with this little fella:


By Sarah Williams

I saw a little bird go hop, hop, hop
So I said to the bird, won't you stop, stop, stop
And was going to the window, to say how do you do,
When he shook his little tail, and far away he flew

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Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien (Cillian Murphy) abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side, find themselves pitted against one another, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test.

Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, this gripping drama by Ken Loach (Raining Stones) is set during the early days of the Irish Republican Army, when British occupation of the Irish radicalized many a citizen and caused some to take up arms. Cillian Murphy plays Damien, a medical student on his way to London when he witnesses a couple of atrocities committed by British troops. Instead of becoming a doctor, he turns into a leading and respected figure in an IRA division led by his brother, Teddy (Padraic Delaney). The film provides some fascinating historical insight into the nascent resistance movement as it was in 1920, and Loach brilliantly conveys the profound emotional transition young men had to make to become saboteurs and killers. Loach's realistic style is absolutely mesmerizing, with many scenes built around the dynamics of large groups: contentious meetings, torture sessions, battles, celebrations, and the like. One has the sense of history as a pool of energy, and one also develops a kind of Renoiresque appreciation for the fact that different people on opposing sides of a life-or-death issue have their reasons for believing what they believe. As the story moves along, subtle shifts in the perspectives of men and women who had once agreed to be absolute in their fight for freedom results in a tragic yet understandable schism among Irish patriots. The final half-hour of The Wind That Shakes the Barley says a lot about how the Irish, including people who had known one another all their lives, turned their wrath on one another for so many decades. This is an outstanding film, featuring the best performance yet by Murphy (Red Eye). --Tom Keogh