It's not just a Sunday with a double-dose of photos but it's also the second straight day of nothing but pictures of us after the park's closed and there's nothing to do except leave. How much longer will this go on? Just you wait and see because this is not the end!
Still not off the exit stairs! But getting a nice picture of the lower deck of the carousel from an angle that makes it look like a toy. Note the cats are carrying dead fish in their mouths, because that's how the classic carvers they were imitating rolled.
Oh, looks like one of the lights is trying to make a getaway. Ssh, don't tell!
More of the lower deck, again from the stairs. Again, I promise you, my camera doesn't have a tilt-shift mode so far as I can determine so I don't know how I got this effect. Note the band organ in the background, though.
One last look at the French Quarter flower decoration, only this time my camera refused to focus for some reason. I like the look, though.
There, I'm finally on the ground and getting a picture of what the stairs look like as well as the Columbia chariot.
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bunnyhugger's getting a similar picture and you can see her newest off-brand Squishmallow in her arm.
Does look nice, doesn't it? Anyway, I promise this is the last of the up-close pictures of the carousel in evening light.
Here's a look over the pool and a chance to get bunnyhugger upset that I don't clean my camera lens enough. (I totally cleaned it last year or maybe in 2020.)
Ah, now, here's the carousel from middle distance, featuring palm trees and reflecting pond and Gold Striker, which is a totally different picture.
And a last evening picture of bunnyhugger in front of the park's name and the reflecting pond and the carousel and the towel she was worried someone had lost and wouldn't recover.
Slow-walking our way out, well past the park's closing hour.
And of course one quick look back at the entrance gates and the 2023 season pass pricing. We did not notice the Gold and Silver passes were the only things offered on the sign there; this turned out to be an omen. Platinum passes, like we've had for a decade now, have been discontinued. (!) More on that as events unfold ...
Trivia: Testing the lithium hydroxide canisters for scrubbing carbon dioxide for Wally Schirra's six-orbit Mercury mission found the 5.4-pound cans of material absorbed barely any more carbon dioxide than the 4.6-pound canisters used for earlier, three-orbit flights. Testing eventually discovered the 5.4-pound cans had been under-filled by about half a pound each. Fully filled cans worked for the expected time. Source: This New Ocean: A History of Project Gemini, Loyd S Swenson Jr, James M Grimwood, Charles C Alexander. NASA SP-4201. The materials science equivalent of putting alert('WORKING!') to find out whether you're actually pushing your HTML edits to the correct server.
Currently Reading: Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation, Rusty McClure with David Stern and Michael A Banks.
