2008 Image Archive

In case anyone is wondering, the sign says (approximately) - "cozy wozy".
Taken from the very edge of the construction project happening near the south-west corner of the station. The "Waterfront Building" will be built here, consisting of a congress centre for up to 3000 people and a 418 room, four-star hotel.
Taken from the bridge across the platforms.
View from the battery commander's station. The stench in here was terrible. Many of the abandoned buildings of Fort Baker have found new uses as shelters and toilets.
I also went on a speed-hike to Mirror Lake, which was all dried up this time of year and more "Mirror Puddle", being about three by twenty meters in size, with a depth of half a meter.
Bullriding!
Team tiedown. One lassos the neck, the other lassos both rear legs.
Mutton scramble - like the calf scramble, but for the up-to-seven littlest cowboys and cowgirls.
Ladies breakaway. Due to the strength required to tie the calf down, the cowgirls lasso the calf and then let it run away. The lasso is not attached to the horse in this case.
Sometimes the horse is toowild to even get out of the box. The rider escaped unharmed in this case.
Calf scramble for the 8-12 year old crowd. A ribbon is tied to the tail of the calf and the one who gets it is the winner.
Tiedown - lasso the calfand tie it up. The lasso is attached to the horse and the horse will keep the rope taut once the calf is caught. The rider dismounts and lifts the calf and dropit to the ground on its side or back before tying up the calf's legs. Scoring is based on time taken.
More ranch saddle.
The "ranch saddle" event - stay on the horse for eight seconds, one hand only.
The national anthem is played.
When taxing to the gate for the last time, two fire trucks hosed the plane as a salute.
Captain Bill (ret.).
I listened a little on the radio on on the bus to the ferry, and in what can only be described as some serious synchronicity, there was a program about alcoholic seniors. (Retirees, to be precise.)
Memorial to the Austrian vicims of the Nazis at Schwedenplatz. A transcript, where I have inserted capitalization and punctuation as I see fit:
Memorial to soldiers from Hütteldorf who fell in WWI. The memorial is in front of the Hütteldorfer Pfarrkirche.

Links

[a]

http://www.waterfrontbuilding.se/

[b]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessor_of_the_Faith

[c]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

[d]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo#Daily_operations