Happy Valentine's day!

Eating quiche at Strossner's bakery, listening to DW-Radio discussing teaching religion in Austrian schools. Seems the muslims are teaching that Islam and Democracy are incompatible. Radio feed courtesy of Livestation.

Greenville News 5K Run Downtown race

Its a cloudy day, ideal for a road race. Streets are closed downtown and everyone is milling about after running 5K. A couple of scenes at the finish line.

Watched the Obama Inaguration at. Furman

Watched the Obama Inaguration with a class of Furman students on TV, computers and mobile phones. The various sources and delivery modes made for good discussion. I'm excited for our new leader. Some of my friends had interesting responses to this.

Finally gave up the ghost...

The old dead tree next door just fell. No damage, just blocking Madden street. It's at least 80 years old. I'll get pix at first light.

Tornado at Cincinnati Airport

This is the tornado that caused a great disturbance at the Cincinnati airport last nite at about 7:40 pm.
Photo by Anna du Nigha who flew in from Frankfurt.

Burlington Iowa returning to normal

The Mississippi River in Burlington, Iowa. The river is down about 15 feet from the record floods in mid June the area to the right is Gulfport, Ill which was drowned on June 16 when the levee breached at 25 ft stage. The water is still there.
Seth
Maru Del Real

The Trains are running!

Just saw a BNSF coal train headed west. First trains across the Mississippi since June 14 for BNSF