One of the places I have tried to hit in North Carolina for a number of years has been Roaring Creek off of 19E out of Elk Park. Roaring Creek tumbles off the southeast side…

I cannot complain about the weather here in northwestern North Carolina on this autumn day. The rain, light as it is, is desperately needed. But it sure puts a “damp-er” on the quest for pictographs….

As we left Virginia behind today Mother Nature gave me a perfect picture postcard view of Mabry Mill. Actually the two colorful trees in the background are about the only two left in the vicinity…

A while back I wrote a review for Fred First’s, A Slow Road Home, at the time we had only met on the pages of each others blogs and through the exchange of emails. This…

Driving South on the Parkway through Humpback Rocks brought a surprise this afternoon… It must have come down pretty good overnight since it had been melting for a while by the time we got there….

We spent yesterday at Jefferson’s Monticello… Today we head south down the Blue Ridge to a introduction to Floyd, Va…See ya down the road.

No not really. It just hit me that it made more sense to run the Interstate up to the terminus of our trip and then begin working our way south rather than vice versa. It…

Sunrise this morning was spent at Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The weather was clear and cold. I didn’t know how cold until I got back in the car to drive back down…The…

I closed yesterday with a shot of sunset so lets open the day with the morning sunrise fro the other side of Asheville… Heading back to breakfast I stopped at the French Broad River Overlook…

We drove into the darkness on Sunday to get to Birmingham. The only observations from the drive on Sunday were we both commented on how dry Mississippi looked. It was a noticeable change right at…

I am just finishing up with email and all before I throw the final items (like this computer) into the car. We are hitting the road in the next hour or so for our first…

We’ve been running around trying to get ready to hit the road tomorrow, so posting here is down to a minimum. With any luck I’ll be posting some autumn colors in the next week… In…

The mapping software I ordered from DeLorme arrived late on Wednesday night so Thursday morning was spent installing booth programs and checking the GPS receiver during my regular blogging time. I must say that what…

I walked out of the house yesterday to see this sight… The color of the sky was so arresting I had to grab a shot. Then I waited to see the sun peak over the…

There is a long but informative article on the effects of light on seasonal mood swings over on the Washington Post… Seeing the Light of Day Oh, the light! The autumn light! Is there anything…

Over the course of the last month or so I keep stumbling over videos from TED. This morning I came across a link which I watched . Then I went exploring…Here is one of the…

Where once there was laughter…Silence This week’s challenge: ‘Silence’. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image,…

Two Pigs – Verlyn Klinkenborg – York Times Over the course of just a few generations (in my case just two) we have gone from a world where everyone knew where their food came from…

Our first Grandson had his first birthday party over the weekend and I finally managed to process some shots. The capture above was of him and his personal birthday cake…He had fun until he noticed…

It always intrigues me when the weather goes topsy turvy. This morning when I arrived at the coffee pot the weather station on the shelf said the outside temperature was holding at 50°. The humidity…

The musings from stream side, as the fall turns to winter…for the present time at least. A Late Afternoon, Mid-October Snowstorm on the Madison River – New York Times I have come again to the…

I woke up this morning to temperatures in the 50’s…yeah! Fall has decided to pay us another visit for a few days. As I sit here at the kitchen table with my ???th cup of…

This week’s challenge: ‘The City’. Houston on a beautiful winter day in February of this year. Taken while attending a National Geographic Photography Session at the U of H Downtown Campus. This week’s challenge: ‘The…

The long overdue trip into the Blue Ridge Mountains is almost here (knock on wood). I almost feel like I shouldn’t even think about it unless I jinx the whole affair. This trip is about…

From my drive on Monday… I went looking for this shot as there is no way you can call this windmill “on the way home”…Though I drive by it often enough. Of all the windmills…

From my drive home yesterday. The weather was threatening to follow me home…but it didn’t. The clouds were amazing. And a little post processing in Photomatix Pro never hurts to bring them out in HDR….

Blog Action Day On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind. In 2007 the issue is the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment…

A tree falls and an old friend is lost | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle It was a giant tree, upended by a freak wind, that sealed its fate — the charming, sunny little cottage next…

“What politics has become, requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I have found in short supply.” – Al Gore ++++++++++ The MSM has been abuzz ever since the announcement…

The weather out is delightful, even the humidity has fallen below 90%. Morning temperature is 64°. The skys are clear and the day has yet to break. We should be heading into a beautiful weekend….

The alarm clock is failing in it’s efforts to motivate me out of bed this week. The fall weather (another tease, I am sure) is not helping it in it’s appointed task. The snooze setting…

I never thought I could get this excited…Driving home yesterday I heard the weather prognosticator calling for “seasonable” temperatures this weekend. My goodness, who would have thought that “seasonable” would be the new cool… I…

I keep seeing these high record notices scattered up and down the east coast. New York, New York (10001) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground Record high temperature set at Kennedy…a record high temperature of…

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I am just about moved into this new blogging machine. New computers are such a pain as you try to get all of the essential programs installed…Even the ones you forgot were essential right up…

After shopping around in our electrical supply market here in Texas, I can tell you, I sure don’t feel like I’ve saved any money over the past decade. If anything it seems like the only…

The morning reading of the thermometer shows that our last few days of precursor fall weather were just a tease as usual. The morning’s low is in the mid seventies again and the afternoon highs…

We are having another of those needed fall mornings here. The temperature as I made the trek to the road with the contribution to the garbage gods this morning was almost pleasant. Sadly, the prognosticators…

The Blog of Henry David Thoreau: Thoreau’s Journal: 03-Oct-1859 Thoreau’s Journal: 03-Oct-1859 It is somewhat cooler and more autumnal. A great many leaves have fallen and the trees begin to look thin. You incline to…

My new toy finally arrived from Dell yesterday…A 17″ laptop with some bells and whistles to make photo editing easier. I planned to post the first blog this morning. I got a little sidetracked with…

Bush the philosopher has one thing right: Human dignity is served when people make choices for themselves rather than being nannied by the government. But only simpletons suppose that this principle is absolute: Where unfettered…

My wife and I were discussing my/our dream of living in the mountains yesterday. It hit me while we were talking that she only sees the mountains through vacation eyes. Her vision of mountain living…

Garrison provides a quotation upon Cervantes birthday that is as insightful today as it must have been during his life… The Writer’s Almanac from American Public Media Miguel de Cervantes said, “Too much sanity may…

From Coffee Muses Babe in his mother’s arms…That’s comfort. This week’s challenge: ‘Comfort’. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always…

Going through the Google Reader feeds this morning I stumbled over Dick Cavett at the Times. If you need a review of his column take this into consideration…I read all the wy to the end…

There was a post by Gina over at Lifehacker yesterday about coffee that caught my eye. How To: Make Better Coffee – Lifehacker This morning’s cuppa joe a big letdown? Self-described “coffee snob” Brett Kelly…

For the past week or so I have been catching myself with my mind in the clouds so this weeks horoscope from Rob Brezsny really resonated in me. Free Will Astrology : Aquarius Horoscope Aquarius…

When I got up this morning the weather had gone back to summer mode…The temperature was pushing 73° before sunup. Now, twelve hours later we are still at 83°. Even though the temperatures are still…

It looks like I’ve had one of my domains phished spoofed. All morning long the spam folder has been filling up with undelivered mail receipts. Since around 5am this morning there have been over 2,000…