Jonathan - 3rd Grade Spelling Bee and Awards Ceremony

The 3rd Grade Spelling Bee and Awards Ceremony at Taylor Elementary held on May 28, 2009 at the school. Jon-Jon was a member of the Spelling Bee team and got several awards for academic excellence.

A Video By Josh

Josh and I spent the afternoon running around Abilene's city cemetery. I'm shooting for a video that has been commissioned by a local Abilene group. Josh brought along his own video camera, shot a video, did the edit and put it on YouTube. Here is that video.

A New Video - Mourning Dove

Mourning Doves are monogamous birds that share in the nesting process. Typically, one of the doves will sit on the nest from the morning through the afternoon. The other dove will sit on the next from the evening through the night.

We discovered this nest up in one of our trees. It took a picnic table and a ladder to get high enough to get some of the shots but it was worth it.

This story has an unfortunate ending, however. We have a cat that has a taste for all things bird. We think she got one of the doves and both eggs. The good news is that doves nest three or four times a year and often come back to the same place. Next time, I will put up some chicken-wire to keep the cat away.

Mourning Dove from David Gibson on Vimeo.

A New Video - Vintage Baseball at Buffalo Gap Historic Village

Over the last two years, I've had the privilege of getting to know a bunch of guys that love history and love baseball. There's only one problem: they spell it as "base ball" with two separate words. This spelling comes from how the game was spelled and played during the 1860's and 1870's. Join me for this brief introduction to Vintage Base Ball as told by guys with names like Joel "Flaps" Brant, Bob "Bonecrusher" Wettemann, "Fossil" Joe Christensen and Warren "Spider" Simpson.