A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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” »
Anyone who has been following this blog knows that one of my favorite past times is to head out into the country with my camera and just explore. I enjoy not just the exploration, but the documentation of exploration, either by writing about it here, keeping a GPS track, or by geotagging the photos I … Read More “Geotagging Made Simple” »
Remember this view from yesterday? This is what it looks like today… We’ve had a fairly steady rain all day, but nothing major. Here’s what happened in the low spot in the street… One could also see the change right behind our house. At some point during the morning the flow turned very red, as … Read More “What Difference a Day Makes” »
The choice was, should I clean out the basement, or go shoot photographs? Today’s forcast was for fantastic weather. Tomorrow’s, not so much. To me it was a no brainer. I only had a couple of hours before I was to meet Laura for lunch and run some errands, so I decided to explore our … Read More “Touring Upper Lake Fairfield” »
Yesterday the Greenville News reported that the owner of an antique store on Wade Hampton Boulevard had been found shot to death in his store. Bedding World Outlet and Antiques was a long-established business, located right next door to Henry’s Smokehouse. It was notable as much for it’s quonset-hut shaped architecture and cigar store Indian … Read More “What’s Up with Wade Hampton?” »