A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
Tonight we started working on a concert version of Bizet’s Carmen. It’s a Spanish tale, sung in French by an American Choir, conducted by a Russian. It will be a real international affair with all the songs you know by heart. Of course, I know very different words to these tunes. My knowledge of Carmen … Read More “Harold Hecuba Presents…” »
After watching last night’s documentary on the Tomb of Jesus, I got to thinking about those that would dismiss everything simply because it doesn’t fit in with their faith. The convenient phrase would be that it is a "lie of the Devil." I find that to be a highly useful phrase. If you don’t agree … Read More “Lie of the Devil” »
That was one of the terms used by a panelist on the discussion program following Discovery’s "The Tomb of Jesus Revealed" to describe the program. We watched the entire two hour program and found the ideas intriguing, albeit not "compelling" as Simcha Jacobovici, the filmmaker, contends. I found it to be about as intriguing as … Read More “Archeoporn” »
By the time the moon rose over the Eastern Seaboard, it was emerging from totality. I set up the Celestron C90 with my Nikon and snapped a few shots as it came up.
While growing up, my father would often load our large family into the car and go on a drive. These drives would often involve dirt roads and somewhere along the way, a rickety wooden bridge. We explored just about every road we could in Laurens County, sometimes extending to the surrounding counties. I think it … Read More “Roaming to Aiken” »
Laura and I had given each other tickets to a performance of Camelot at the Peace Center for Valentine’s Day. Friday night was the show, and it was fantastic. Michael York starred as Arthur, Rachel York as Guinevere (no relation to Michael), and James Barbour was Lancelot. All three were excellent, as were the supporting … Read More “I Know It Sounds a Bit Bizaare” »
So what’s that you’re reading today? Oh, it’s just some science fiction novel I picked up on the bargain table. Me, too. It’s called Revuhlations. (Holds up book entitled Revelations Unyielding.) You know, the End Times, they’s coming, and it’s gonna be bad. I wonder if she knows that she just called the Book of … Read More “What a Revelation!” »
I like the little "It happened here" maps that I can create at the bottom of these posts. However, they only allow the tagging of one location. This is OK if that post is about only one place, such as a restaurant, but it causes problems when I want to mark multiple locations. I’ve been … Read More “From Earth to Maps – Tracking Your Travels” »
What’s wrong with this picture? This Google Earth capture is an example of very poor geotagging etiquette. First, the number of images tagged to this specific location is almost unmanageble. Granted, I’m zoomed out quite a bit, but if one zooms in closer, the situation does not improve. All of these images are tagged to … Read More “Geotagging Etiquette” »
If you take a look at the sidebar under "Pages", you’ll see a new link for Widgets and Maps. These are services that have been linked into my site through Widgetbox. Widgetbox is basically a clearinghouse of blog applications. You can get everything from Flickr interfaces to news RSS feeds delivered to your site. It … Read More “Widgets and Maps” »