A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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Saturday our god-daughter, Rebecca, celebrated her third birthday. She wanted a "yellow" party, since that’s her favorite color. Most everyone wore yellow, mostly T-shirts and shorts. Here is is mid-December, and it’s in the seventies – quite a change from this time last year. There were yellow cupcakes, yellow crafts, and all manner of other … Read More “Yellow (not red)” »
We have a cat with a broken leg. Rascal already had a weak leg because of severe injuries sustained when just a kitten. His paw was crushed by a dog when he was just six weeks old, and the vet at the time thought that it would have to be amputated. However, he recovered, and … Read More “Rascal” »
I love the fog. I would really like to shoot some long-exposure photos in the early morning with trees outlined and barely visible. I especially like it when the sun begins the break through. Today had all those features. As I drove to work, I mentally framed dozens of potential photos. Problem was, here I … Read More “Opportunity” »
I had my 15 seconds of fame on the Internet this week. My article comparing fast food colors with species mimicry was included on Boingboing.net. It didn’t gather quite the attention of Chip’s soiled sweatpants used as packing material, but it was more than this poor website could handle for awhile. On Tuesday when it … Read More “My 15 Seconds” »
I had lunch at our local Wendy’s yesterday. Looking up the street I was struck by something. See if you can spot it… Here. I’ll make it a bit more obvious in this collection of logos… Notice how all of these companies use shades of red and yellow in their logos? One might argue that … Read More “Yellow and red” »
‘Twas the coldest weekend of this winter so far. The lake was actually frozen, as was the fountain on our front porch. Here’s another fountain downtownd…
Time to give RandomConnections an upgrade. Over the next couple of days I’ll be bumping it up to the latest version of WordPress. Most of the changes will be behind the scenes, but I may have to take the site offline for a bit. If all goes according to plan, it will only be offline … Read More “A Few Small Repairs” »
I usually hate Internet and e-mail memes. However, I found this one so funny I felt compelled to share. As with most of these memes, I have no idea who the original author might be…. Excerpts from a Dog’s Daily Diary: 8:00 am – Dog food! My favorite thing! 9:30 am – A car ride! … Read More “Pet Diaries” »
The people have spoken… Those words are usually uttered by the losers, and were heard many times today. It was a mixed bag, from our perspective. Democrats did nicely at the national level, but not so well locally. We suspected such would be the case. Our state’s people spoke up and indicated that they wanted … Read More “Sic transit gloria Republican” »
This election week has not been kind to those against whom I’m voting. Not in terms of election outcome necessarily, but in terms of personal health of the candidates. Both Mark Sanford and Karen Floyd suffered injuries on Monday – Floyd as her plane was landing got banged up, and Sanford was temporarily blinded by … Read More “Election 2006” »