Tulip Fest 2009

Albany, NY Mayor Jerry Jennings announces the 2009 Tulip Queen, Juliana Hernandez, at the coronation ceremony in Washington Park.


Here are some photos of the many thousands of tulips and other flowers throughout Washington Park during the Tulip Festival.




Large crowds of people turned out for the Tulip Festival and gathered to listen to the music, including a performance by the band "Third Eye Blind".And finally, here's a slideshow with a few more pictures:

Times Square, NYC

This is one of my favorite photos I took on a trip to New York City. Times Square always looks amazing all lit up like this at night, and this photo came out better than some of my other shots.
I used the night setting on my digital camera, which keeps the shutter open longer to capture the available light. But it means you have to hold the camera steady for a longer period, and sometimes just a slight movement will cause the picture to be a bit blurry. Guess I must have had a steadier hand when I took this shot. LOL

HELP ME !

A crazed ax murderer has broken into my apartment and is trying to kill me....

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE !

Hot Dog! It's the Weinermobile!

The Oscar Mayer Weinermobile was sighted
recently (August 7th) in downtown Albany, NY.







This was the same day we had some very heavy rain, and many areas, including South Pearl Street were flooded. I was waiting out the storm nearby, while I filmed some of the flooding in the street and parking lot on South Pearl.

The previous post (below) is a video of some of the rain and street flooding.












Parked safely away from the flooded areas.







Oh darn it !

Now I'm hungry for hot dogs after seeing this photos !

(Luckily I have some in the fridge.)

To take a virtual tour of the Weinermobile, click here.

To see an old Oscar Mayer Weiner TV ad, click here.
(Hey! That kid Freddy,who doesn't want to be an Oscar Mayer weiner in the ad, looks a bit like me, when I was a kid.)

QEII News Flash:

Heavy rain caused a bit of flooding on South Pearl Street in Albany, NY today (near the Capital Repertory Theatre), causing a woman at this bus stop to flee for her life, or at least to avoid wet feet! You'll hear her voice in the video.

Awww...isn't that sweet...yesterday I went to visit the ocean (see Boston Whale Watch post) and
today it followed me home. It must have missed me!