Friends in Paradise...

Friends in Paradise...  Yesterday evening, two new friends of ours in Paradise (Bruce and June N.) brought me a present: two locally grown melons.  One was an enormous cantaloupe, the other a Crenshaw.  This morning I cut the cantaloupe in half, intending to eat one half and have the other tomorrow – but when I got finished with the first half, I couldn't resist eating the other as well.  It was so good!

So now I'm planning to have the Crenshaw tomorrow.  If it lasts that long :)

Perfect...

Perfect...

Explosive volcanic eruption...

Explosive volcanic eruption ... captured on video.  I sure hope nobody was anywhere near that caldera when this happened...

This is what happens ...

This is what happens ... when you fly a drone right through a fireworks display.  Spectacular!  I'm amazed the drone survived this onslaught, but I'm glad it did. 

The second video (at left) is a nice collection of video clips from drones.  Via my friend Mike B...

Baby hippos are cute!

Baby hippos are cute!  Click to embiggen...

Why is modern art so bad?

Why is modern art so bad?  A call for a return to objective judgment of art quality, instead of today's conspicuous abandonment of it.  Excellent.  I got a good chuckle from the last few seconds of this short...