Freedom Is Not Free

I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
He'd stand out in a crowd.
I thought how many men like him
had fallen through the years.
How many had died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom is not free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
when everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen"
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
with interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington...
No, freedom is not free.
Author Unknown

As we enjoy our Memorial Day, let us keep in mind why we can do that.
Offer a prayer for all our troops in combat today so we can enjoy our freedom.

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Viva Vision-the biggest screen on earth

Las Vegas Fremont Street

Viva Vision- The biggest screen on earth.
You will be amazed by the technological wonders of a one-of-a-kind experience in the world.
Light and sound show reaches a new creation of Viva Vision, a dazzling state-of-the-art light and animated display.

These 17 million dollar phenomena, have delighted visitors with its larger than life LCD TV screens.

Viva Video

Over head, you will see the show, at dusk



Integrated live video feeds and synchronized music delivered on a high-tech overhead canopy that extends the length of more than 5 football fields.

Fremont Street Show

Once the sun goes down visitors can peer upwards, to experience over 12.5 million LED modules ,offering crisp high-resolution images and astounding special effects-all –synchronized to a sound-track fed through a 550,000 watt concert quality, sound system.

Viva Las Vegas

The show is free and can be viewed from any angle along the five-block pedestrian only section of Fremont Street.
17 million people each year visit this attraction, downtown, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Getting a room downtown will enhance the fun of the light show.
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Color Vision

This is amazing color vision

We have seen these shows many times and they are a must see.
I felt this time was not as good as the ones before, had been.

Butterfly-Everything Afluter

Walk-through butterfly exhibits are taking flight across the nation.
The butterfly house or indoor garden, is filled with plants and hundreds of butterflies.
It is very educational, with informative signs to guide you on your butterfly hunt.
If you have the chance to see one be sure and go. This one in Phoenix was just as fun as any of the bigger ones.

Butterfly Pavilion

The butterfly walk-through pavilion in Phoenix, Arizona is small in comparison , to some of the ones around the country.
These walk-through pavilions have been big crowd pleases.
Zoo's in warm weather places, are getting them because the butterfly effect is so popular with all butterfly lovers.
They are very popular with the school children.
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Butterfly Garden

Butterfly Facts

Occasionally, butterflies will land on your outstretched arm or on the top of your head.
Visitors are not allowed to touch the butterflies, because it could shorten their life span, which lasts only about 3 to 4 days.
They are the perfect creature but very frail.
To ensure the butterflies are well fed, inside the pavilion , feeding stations are placed though out the center.

Zebra Longwing

Zebra Longwing

The Zebra Longwing species, which are the only known, butterfly to feed on polen and not nectar.
This is one of the most popular and attractive residents at the butterfly center.
They are bold in color and easy to spot.
Longwings return every night to roost in clusters for protection.
They are the most long-lived butterflies, surviving for up to 3 months.

Cabage White

Orange Julia Male

Giant Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail

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Buckeye Common

Luna Moth

 

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Luna Moth

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Luna Moth

Luna Moth is the best known of the American silkworm, although the amount of silk is very small.
The Luna Moth is 2 3/4 inches long with a wingspan of 5 1/2 inches. Well known for their green-yellow colors and long tails. They have distinctive eye spots, on all 4 wings.
This magnificent night flying moth has a reduced, or absent, tongue and cannot eat.
The adult Luna Moth will hatch, find mate, reproduce and die. The life span of the Luna is about 7 days.



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Cardinals Stadium

 

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Cardinal Stadium Arizona

The new home of the Cardinals is really known as the University Of Phoenix Stadium.
Cardinals address: 1 Cardinal Drive
Glendale,Arizona 85305

It is located on Hwy. 101 in Glendale, Arizona.
You can not miss this stadium if you get on Hwy. 101 either North bound or South bound, you can see it for miles.





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University of Phoenix

We went to the University of Phoenix Stadium ticket booth for our tickets, to tour the Card's new digg's.
You can do so on line as well.
It was a very informative tour, costing only $6.00 for a one and a half hour tour.
The day we went there was a motorcycle show and a band going to perform that night.
We saw everything but the Cardinals dressing room, which the band was using.
Camera's were welcome from all view-inspired area's along the tour route.
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Phoenix Cardinals Stadium

The exterior skin represents a barrel cactus.
The Phoenix Cardinals Stadium will encompass 1.7 million square feet of space.

Cardinal Stadium Seating

This Stadium is even unique in the Cardinal Stadium seating, with a seating capacity of 63,000 permanent seats and another 73,000 expandable seats.
If the seats were set in a straight line they would measure 18 miles.

The name of University of Phoenix Stadium has not caught on yet. Everyone has a different name they call it.
The Phoenix Cardinals Stadium will encompass 1.7 million square feet of space.

Phoenix Stadium

Having the only retractable natural grass playing field in North America. This Stadium field of grass rolls in and out of the building on a 12 million pound rail tray.
The grass field resides outside until there is a need to play on it.
The grass field runs on a rail that is slow and precise and never deviates 1/16 of and inch, off the rail. This process takes 45 minutes to complete.
The University of Phoenix Stadium is a multipurpose stadium so the grass floor is only rolled in when a grass playing field is needed.
The amount of concrete used in this Glendale Cardinals Stadium would make 900 miles of sidewalks.