Category: Memories

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Katy’s Tale….A.J.

    Katy’s Tale….A.J.

    The following is a bit I received from my friend Katy. She and Chris, her husband, were also friends of A.J. [Action Jackson]. These are Katy’s memories…….of our mutual friend. AJ and his wife wandered into my life one day down in Flour Bluff, TX; where a few of us were experiencing the winds with…