Month: September 2010

Virginia Ten-Miler

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Met Sharon and Walt Friday night for supper at the Depot Grille, supposedly in the old railroad station at Lynchburg, Virginia.

Attended the Q&A with Andre Agassi in the nearby new Riverside Park. He hopes to start “hundreds” of inner-city charter schools, building on his success at Las Vegas. See Virginia Tech’s old photo of Lynchburg passenger station: the roof line does not match that of the Depot Grille.
I ran the 37th Virginia Ten-Miler (my 17th) next morning, finishing in 93½ minutes for 8th place out of 25 men aged 60-64. Sharon got a picture of me near the finish, but it’s still in her camera. Honored our 10-year tradition of post-race lunch at the Waffle House. See map of the course. Or click any pic for a better look.

Moon flowers (updated)

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Moonflower at dawn, Oct 10th.
Monday Sept 27 was our second rainfall this month, bringing us 0.2″, prompting this evening’s tripling (by 7:30pm) of our previous record of the number of moon flowers open at one time.
Tuesday’s moon flower at 7:10am, Sept 21:

Click the pictures to enlarge.

(Also see references on Indiana Univ and, of course, Wikipedia ) web pages.
See my Youtube video of both pre- and post-sunrise shots of our Sept 18 moon flower followed by the same of our Sept 19 moon flower. (The sun comes up from behind the flowers.) After Youtube starts, you can activate the full-screen option by clicking an icon in lower right which looks like one of these: