Category: kites

  • Nici Blogs An Island Trip

    This is forwarded from my girl, Nicole, who spent some time travelling in VietNam this spring.  She has a very informative style and covers the experience very well.  Just the opinion of a doting father!!   via Ly Son Island – City Guide

  • Why Live in a “Small Town”?

    After many years residing in a small community and hearing that it is “boring here” and nothing to do, I have found a perfect reply. I’ve never lived in Dallas, but Houston and Phoenix are not that distant from the same “plague” that is described in the following description. TRUE STORY! Driving in Dallas…… First…

  • And Then It Was Winter

    It is not very often that it actually snows this far south in Texas, the last one was 2004.   The pictures in this post are from the “dusting” we received a week before Christmas 2017. As I sit here this morning, the wind is howling around the buildings, through the cracks, and its “cotton pickin’ cold”. …

  • Kites and Bikes at the Park

    Kites and Bikes at the Park

    I was thrilled to be invited to join my pal Rick, [the owner of About Kites from Houston] at the Corpus Christi Kites and Bikes Festival on Saturday 11/4. This event is an annual production put on by the Mayors Fitness Council, and the local kite group Coastal Bend Skypirates has participated for the last…

  • Simmer

    Simmer, the mind’s picture relating to the word is of something very warmed up, but not yet boiling over, as in a cooking procedure for making a soup. BUT–  the image conjured up in relation to this past summers experiences was different.  My “mind’s eye” sees a person laying on a tepid set of sheets,…

  • The Great Ones Are Passing On

    It seems that the kiting community has seen lots of great folks pass on, leaving those “empty spaces” in the skies. I am sure that other areas have had those ones they all knew and loved, but our region has experienced two that I knew,  and then today I saw that a name synonymous with…

  • Winter is Over, Well, Almost

    With temps getting in the eighties a few times, and generally strong spring winds, we are encouraged to ” get some”.  Flight time that is…..well leave the other kind to the spring breakers!! The folks up north are finally able to see grass again!  But down here in “Tejas” the tomatoes are setting fruit already,…