"Duke Chapel" Durham, NC - October 2009 (Click to embiggen) Hosted by Written Inc. Durham is close enough to Raleigh that it almost doesn't even qualify as "Elsewhere". But even if it were in my back yard duke Chapel would still be "somewhere else". For starters, it's big enough to be "elsewhere" all by itself. But size notwithstanding, you cannot look upon this place without being transported (okay. maybe you can, but I can't.) Maybe that qualifies it more for "Some thing Else" than "Some... Read Full Story
"Fayetteville Street Disco District - Wide View" Raleigh, NC - November 2009 (Click to embiggen) "Fayetteville Street Disco District - Close up View" Raleigh, NC - November 2009 (Click to embiggen) "Fayetteville Street Disco District - Side View" Raleigh, NC - November 2009 (Click to embiggen) On the same night I shot last week's photo of The R Line , I got this collection from the southern end of Fayetteville Street. Since this is a family meme, I won't quote my initial reaction on spotting... Read Full Story
"UNC-Greensboro Symphonic Band" Greensboro, NC - December 2009 (Click to embiggen) Hosted by Written Inc. I could scarcely go through a week's worth of "Elsewhere" without a trip to Greensboro could I? (Trust me, I couldn't.) This particular trip was about hearing the musical stylings of the Symphonic Band at UNC Greensboro which includes my son on the alto saxophone. Gone are the days when school concerts are "endured" rather than "enjoyed". For all you band parents out there, I promise... Read Full Story
"Republic Aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt" Winston Salem, NC - September 2009 (Click to embiggen) Hosted by Written Inc. I saw this copy of the Republic Aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt when I was "Elsewhere" at the Winston Salem Air Show last September, but that pales in comparison to the "Elsewheres" that this plane has been. Used in the European Theater during World War II, the "Jug" (one of its nicknames) was the biggest, heaviest and most expensive fighter ever built that was powered by a single... Read Full Story
"Any Colour You Like" North Topsail Beach, NC - July 2009 (Click to embiggen) Hosted by Written Inc. I may get an argument here about whether or not this light is "orange" or "golden". This is where being a guy comes in handy though because even though I scored off the chart on the color discrimination test, because I'm a guy I'm not expected to understand the subtle variations between orange and sienna and tangerine (and it's probably true that I couldn't call them by their given names... Read Full Story
"Duckling Schmuckling" Greensboro NC - October 2009 (Click to embiggen) Hosted by Written Inc. Okay so here's the thing. Carmi hinted that the theme for this week would be "Orange" yesterday like he does most every Tuesday, but it didn't sound finalized, so I held off. But I sniffed around the archives just in case and realized that no fewer than three of the photo themes I participate in regularly have used "Orange" as a theme. Which ought to mean I have a bunch of left over shots right... Read Full Story
"They just find the best stuff!" Raleigh, NC - November 2009 (Click to embiggen) I'm hijacking Dad's blog for a minute, 'cause he won't let me have my own (don't know why, he's got a spare computer I could use after all). Anyway, if you remember my birthday last year you remember that yummy smelling box that arrived a few days later. Well it took a little while to figure out where it came from, but it wasn't hard to figure out that it smelled really gooood . Well this year, not only did the... Read Full Story
"Speed Checked By Radar, Enforced by Natural Selection" Somewhere on the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC - February 2001 (Click to embiggen) Hosted by Written Inc. If the unthinkable should ever occur and I get bored with the North Carolina beaches, a little further from me in the other direction are the North Carolina mountains. Which include a substantial portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Parkway is a nearly 500-mile strip running along the spine of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North... Read Full Story
"...ere I Saw Elba" North Elba, NY - August 2005 (Click to embiggen) Hosted by Written Inc. Apparently North Elba, is a suburb of Lake Placid, NY because that's where (I thought) we were when I took this. Lake Placid wasn't a scheduled stop on the Great College Road Trip of 2005, but since we were passing so close by, it seemed like some kind of imperative to stop there -- at least for a while. Perhaps only the building bears the name North Elba (can you sell the naming rights to a town... Read Full Story
"'Snow' in Lake Placid" Lake Placid, NY - August 2005 (Click to embiggen) Hosted by Written Inc. Snow. In August. Yeahright. Sorry, not even in Lake Placid is this happening. I suspect that this mound of "snow" fell not from the belly of a cloud, but the belly of a zamboni or two. Just a hunch, but the proximity of two Olympic sized ice rinks is a pretty strong clue. Both of those rinks have played host to Olympic hockey tournamets, in 1932 when the US team took home the silver and Germany... Read Full Story
