Category: hobbies

  • Upcoming Event Coverage

    Only a few short hours away, the Grand Island kite festival will kick off with a group meet/greet, then a night flight of LED lighted kites, and then the next morning the big show begins, another night flight, and again the next morning a few hours of aerial fun to wrap up the weekend. I…

  • Missing Another Kite Festival

    Missing Another Kite Festival

    I missed another kite festival today, the weather was a drizzling, dripping, soggy wet mess, and if you know kites at all you know its just not a workable combination. It was my intent to attend with my DSLR and my newest addition, a DVR handheld to photograph and video the event making content for…

  • Going to Road Trip Callaway

    I’m going to make every effort to make this a photo journalist “shooting” trip.  I failed to make it a couple years ago….. And have itching for a “kite fix”! Here is some information about the Nebraska Premier kite event. The Callaway Kite Flight Festival is an annual event held in Callaway, Nebraska, over Labor…

  • Missing my “String Time”

    Missing my “String Time”

    I run back through some pics of past kite times, finding images of days on the beach and noticing that the breeze here today is PERFECT for an afternoon kite fly.   But. I am without wheels temporarily, so there is no way to grab my kite bags,  chair, and cooler to head to the “kite spot”…

  • What to Do to Unwind?

    What to Do to Unwind?

    This is my favorite unwind thing–go fly a kite!! Or go to a kite festival— I no longer produce festivals, but do plan on attending as a PRO KITER at one later his month in my local city—

  • Some Fun Flying

    Some Fun Flying

    This is a flow form I added to a lime-green/purple delta kite. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Meejz1u3zfRhCavP7 The link is to a video taken while doing a test flight on the mod I made to the kite. I enede up not liking hte way the flow tails bunched at the lower end– so I made another modification ans eneded…

  • Thirteen Years for the Kids

    Thirteen Years for the Kids

    As an avid promoter/producer of kite festivals living on the Gulf of America coast, I had hte distinct pleasure of helping organize an annual event called “Audrey’s Day at the Beach”. A couple in my community had a grandaughter who died of Down syndrome — “Audrey” — in her memory they, and their son, produced…

  • Days Gone By

    Days Gone By

    Those of us who have been flying kites “forever” have some memories of friends, times, and places where we wer having the time of our lives. So many of these events were with our kite club on the Gulf of America coast in south Texas. I am going to share a YouTube video slideshow with…

  • Back on the Field

    There has been way too long a lapse between times I could get a few hours [or even minutes!] to go fly my kites. Thankfully I have had a couple days to remedy the withdrawl symptoms Ive been experiencing. I’ve wondered why my left hand is tingling a lot, and thumb cramps periodically……because it hasnt…

  • Daily Prompt. — Reply

    What foods would you like to make? This is not really a kite related post. The winds are a weak 4mph today, so we are not attempting ot launch anything but a good soup recipe!! WHAT FOODS??? Well, TODAY!  I made from scratch my hardy duty French onion soup, complete with home-made croutons. crouton. The…