A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
This weekend markes the 50th Anniversary of the Frisbee. In 1957 Whamm-o renamed it’s Pluto Platter the Frisbee, in honor of the Frisbie Pie Company of Connecticutt. I guess I’ll have to go play a round of disc golf sometime today.
Like George W. Bush, I have a hole in my head. And like Al Gore, I have an inconvenient tooth. This week certainly didn’t turn out like I thought it was. Wednesday morning was spent in a dentist chair for a deep cleaning – loads of fun. All of Friday morning was spent removing a … Read More “Healthcare and Politics” »
There’s a new matchmaker website and service making the rounds of cable TV. Chemistry.com (nope, no hyperlink) purports to match more people with their "soulmates" than eHarmony.com. Of course, when we saw this, Laura was outraged. She couldn’t believe that the American Chemical Society hadn’t snapped up the chemistry.com domain name. This led to a … Read More “It’s Chemistry” »
I got the following e-mail today… I’m thinking about leaving Xxxxxxxxx School District. Do any of you have positions available using the xxxxxx software system? If you haven’t guessed, this was sent to a state-wide listserv. It’s also tantamount to professional suicide. I don’t think I would have sent something like this out unless I … Read More “Professional Suicide” »
All work in our office stops when there is A) a baby present B) food available, or C) a cute animal. In this case it was a not-so-cute animal. At least, not-so-cute to some. I think this little Black Racer has cute blue eyes. In cliche’ fashion, all of the women in the office … Read More “Terror in the Office” »
The first thing I noticed were the pipes… Then there was the equipment parked across from my house… And finally, there were the markings all up and down the street, and leading into my yard… I do wish the city-county-whatever would let us in on what’s going on. On another note, a second house … Read More “Ominous Signs” »
CAUTION: Overly broad generalizations ahead. Today I caught myself using a double-standard. As we were having lunch today, a family came into the restaurant wearing clothing that marked them as being of some evangelical brand of Christianity. If the ultraconservative ankle-length dresses and lime-green sport coat weren’t enough, then the large leather thumpable Bible was … Read More “Worldlier Than Thou” »
We got home about mid-afternoon, and had some time to just sit around the house. I took a look at some more of those shots to see if some post-processing would help. It turns out that cave shots work quite well with a fake lomograph effect applied. It tends to bring out the contrast. … Read More “More Vacation Post-Processing” »
Home again. We left Norton, VA, and drive straight down Highway 23 until it turned into I-26. From there, we continue straight on until home. We stopped once at Natural Tunnel (wouldn’t that be a "cave?") State Park in Virginia, but decided we didn’t want to do another chairlift. We stopped at one other overlook, … Read More “From Norton to Greenville” »
I don’t know what happened yesterday. Almost all of my photos looked washed out. I’m not sure if iy was the cloudy sky and terrible lighting, but everything looks washed out. I woke up early this morning before we hit the road again, and tried to see what I could do about salvaging some of … Read More “Vacation Post-Processing” »