Cliff Owen

Despite a couple hundred-thousand miles driven down rural roads and highways, I’ve yet to see a pivot irrigation system at work — you know them, those 1/4 mile long trellises that snake through a farmer’s fields. They sit quietly like those dinosaur skeletons on display at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum.

Well, Friday night they were alive in Sudlersville, Maryland and emitting a soft rain. Had it been a tad bit warmer, I just might have done a Gene Kelly dance through the field.

Tracy wanted some photos of herself but she had just a couple of hours free from work and her kids. We sped around Alexandria and DC on a very hot, humid, and gray sky evening. How she kept her cool escapes me — I was drenched.

Two Air Force Sgts walk off the flight line in the jet exhaust of Air Force One — as it prepares to take-off with President Barack Obama and his family bound for the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

Trees, Manassas Battlefield, Manassas, Virginia

Michael Donley, secretary of the Air Force, pauses while speaking during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Fisher House and meditation pavilion for the families of fallen soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, at Dover Air Force Base, Saturday, May 1, 2010.

photographed for the AP

Dennis Quaid waits to address the National Press Club luncheon.

photographed for the AP