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Fat Albert is a military blimp based on Cudjoe Key. Thanks to Federal funding cuts, the U.S. Air Force Tethered Aerostat (Blimp) Radar System that includes Fat Albert and eight other sites along the Gulf of Mexico, Mexican border and Puerto Rico shut down in 2014. This is not the last photo of Fat Albert aloft but it is one showing the blimp trying to avoid its fate by hiding in the fickle clouds.

"The girls say I'm pretty easy; I can be had for most anything with wheels, keels, or terabytes." Dick Harper says. Dick is a contributing columnist for New England’s oldest afternoon daily. He writes trade and general interest articles on consumer issues, cars and boats, manufacturing equipment, and management for small businesses and arts organizations. Oh, yeah. And he takes pictures. A barefoot, outdoor and nature photographer, he has fine art and stock photography from New England, the Atlantic coastal states, Florida, and the American Southwest. "I'm serendipitous," he says. "I'll sit on a site waiting for the superlative sun but I'm just as happy to have a walk around body when I see a speedboat on my street." Click the...