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Croquet: The NA Open
Last weekend saw the start of the North American Open at the Sonoma-Cutrer Croquet Club north of San Francisco near Windsor, CA. It’s one of the clubs I belong to and play at. Here’s a selection of photos from the first day’s play.
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Bittern
Why don’t we get specials like this over here? For those train-spotters out there here is 30 seconds of ‘Bittern’ BR 60019, an A4 Gresley, arriving at Shalford to take on water last week.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3820598629816805486
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WCC 2000
WORLD CROQUET CHAMPIONSHIP 2000 at the SOMONA-CUTRER VINEYARDS, CALIFORNIA
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The Final – selected pictures.
Other images of the most successful Sonoma-Cutrer WCC ever:
Pictures from the final day of block play:
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Welcome. Part 2.
This is the new location of wadley.us. The move is three month affair planned for April through June 2008. By the end of June everything will be over here and wadley.us will point here too. For those that are interested in a little detail of why this was necessary, read on. Continue reading
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Bouquets
The annual Bouquets to Art event was this week. So many flowers. So little time. So we went twice. Here is a selection. See our Picasa pages for more.
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Salamanders
We seem to be lucky enough to have many families of salamanders in our garden. Whenever we move something we seem to find them underneath. We have set up a rock in an area that shouldn’t get disturbed during the garden renovations and we hoped they would find a home there. But this week some seem to have decamped to underneath our green-waste (compost) bin that had only been in place a couple of days. Managed to grab a quick picture. Here’s the mostly brown one. The other two were all black. If anyone knows which exact type of salamander these are please let us know. There are many types native to California.
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Tangmere
Well hello again. Long time no post. This isn’t really to bring you up-to-date with news, to bang on about the primary campaigns over here in the US (amusing as they are) or even to show you the lovely Sparaxis flowers from the garden (though they are pretty). This is to show you a little snippet of video my sister Jane took last year – thanks Jane! – and show how easy it is to post YouTube videos and show them here.
So please enjoy this short clip 35 second of a great steam engine thundering through Brookwood station on Saturday morning 15th Sept. 2007. The engine is 34067 ‘Tangmere’ an unrebuilt Battle of Britain class loco.
And in other news I’ve just done this too: croquetonfilm.com.
A380 SF fly-by
Last week the test Airbus A380 full of large water bottles (pretending to be passengers) and some lucky Airbus employees (who were actually passengers) flew into SFO at the beginning of Fleet Week. Then on Friday, in between the Blue Angels practice sessions it flew out on its way back to Toulouse as part of its 150 hour engine test.
The A380 flew by at a few thousand feet and did about three loops of the city, admittedly going slowly for the onlookers, but as reported elsewhere it was almost silent. The Blue Angels were much louder and much lower – you couldn’t ignore them wherever you were in the city. Check out the rest of my Flickr photos for more of this huge aircraft.
A380 over SF Originally uploaded by amwadley
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