Here I'm demonstrating te completely unsafe, improper way to fire a roman candle on July the 4th. Photo ©Faisal Ali 2010

Riding the Tail of the Dragon on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. It runs along the western border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Teleprospector painting I did in 1989 next to new NASA Robonaut Centaur

Did this picture of the X37 back in 2004. A test launch is scheduled to go up Wednesday.

Linda and I at Window in Big Bend National Park.Photo by Grzegorz Chodaczek

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Best Mexican pastries we have ever eaten!

Linda and I on FM 170, one of the top 10 most beautiful roads in the US. Rio Grande and Mexico in the background.

Snow on our backyard

About 90 riders from Austin,Dallas, and Houston braved subfreezing temps to meet in Hico texas yesterday. Org is Two Wheeled Texans -twt.com.

A frozen "waterfall" from our back property coming over a limestone ledge.

Two of my sons,Sean & Kevin,and Sean's girlfriend Katherine climbed Enchanted Rock on New Years Day.

This is a great Christmas practical joke that my niece sent to me. It can cause unexpected responses tho'

Finished last picture for calendar. Depicts Antarctic spacesuit and traverse vehicle testing amongst sastrugi formations.

Finally finished Near Earth Object (asteroid) mission art. Here is a small scan of the final.It's called Summit.

Getting close to being finished on the NEO art. Have all elements in.Now to balance the picture and catch missed items/details

Completed Orion with stretched Service module. Now I remember why I switched over to CG for hardware art!

Just made a lot of progress. Painted in EVA nets, earthlight on bottom of asteroid more detail on foreground astronaut and small middle ground astronaut.

Painted in tiny Earth and tiny Moon. Moon is too small to photograph well. I'll make Earth rounder.

Spacesuit almost finished. Stopped to work on Earth and Moon.Had to work on other things most of yesterday.