Back from Lexington

My apologies for the lack of updates over the last week. I was in Lexington and SouthernKitten's Internet access was on the fritz. No internet = No updates.

Anyway lately while driving I've been playing with taking pictures with my free hand. Now, just to dispel any fears you might have for my safety, I don't use the view finder. I just point and shoot. Since it's a digital camera it's not like I'm wasting film. More often than not the pictures don't turn out, but occasionally I get a really nice one and I'm getting better at it.

Here are a few from this trip(severely trimmed to both be small enough to post and to show only the interesting bits)



This is a shot of the cooling towers for the Fermi 2 nuclear plant in Michigan. I took it because I wasn't sure what it was, but thought it looked a lot like the nuke plant on The Simpsons... Turns out there's a reason for that...



This is a shot of a 42 foot statue of Jesus in front of the Solid Rock Church in southwestern Ohio, just a little north of Cincinnati.

I watched over a couple months as he was built in sections, the last being his hands. The hands seemed to take a while and he sat there with large metal beams sticking out of his wrists. During this period I called him "Laser Beam Jesus"...

He's quite the sight.



In the middle of Ohio I encountered a small convoy of three new-ish Corvettes. This is a shot of them in my rearview mirror after I passed them.

Who could resist photographing three Corvettes in their rearview? Clearly not me.

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In other news, I've been seeing an ad on TV lately for prepackaged breakfasts from Jimmy Dean.

Among other things the commercial features an enthusiastic woman saying:

"The eggs come from real chickens!"

"The cheese comes from real cows!"

"The sausage comes from Jimmy Dean!"

Does anyone else find this disturbing?

Poor Jimmy Dean.