(No) Word Wednesday *Special Super Moon Edition!*

A Case of the Mondays.

Bleh

Hrmph.  This weather, especially on a Monday, is just bleh.  There’s nothing nice about cold, dark, rainy days on a winter landscape.  You don’t get the feeling that the trees and plants are enjoying the rain as you do during the summer or spring.  The only people that enjoy this weather are hunters, because it makes everything quiet and suppresses odors, but it’s not hunting season.  So who’s happy?  No one.

So here I am wishing for someplace warm, sunny, with lapping waves and soft golden colored beaches and palm trees.  Lots of palm trees.  Oh, I don’t know… someplace like… Kappad beach, 20 km North of Kozhidoke (Calicut), Kerala.

(Looks like somebody has a case of the Mondays)

(No) Word Wednesday

(No) Word Wednesday

(No) Word Wednesday*

* Okay maybe a few words. September 11th is coming up, and this photo is my “tribute” for that day. This is a sculpture by Michael Richards, who is a Jamaican American artist. It is cast from the artist’s body and it’s actually a tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen. The planes are representing arrows that were shot at St. Sebastian, an early Christian martyr. So how does this connect to 9/11? Richards died in his studio, which was in 92nd floor of Tower One on September 11th, 2001.

(No) Word Wednesday

(No) Word Wednesday

(No) Word Wednesday

Snowscapes From Virginia.

From Staunton, and the area around Hebron Presbyterian Church to be precise.  We went there over the Christmas break weekend, and we were expecting significant snowfall in the area.  So I was looking forward to shooting some photos of a winter wonderland!  Except we didn’t get any fresh snow (Raleigh did, of course.  We’re not bitter.). Le sigh.  Anyways we did have some leftover snow, so by Monday I decided to try and make some lemonade from some leftover frozen lemons, if you will.

This is the church viewed just off the main road looking up its main driveway.  It was organized in 1748!  1748!

West Point Mill.

As you can see Dear Reader, the last time we updated this blog was little over a week ago, on the last day of our 30 day blog challenge.  Then things got hectic as Christmas was right around the corner and there was were still some things to do before our trip to Staunton, VA!  So despite our to do list, I of course made plans to wake up on Christmas Eve at 6am and meet up with two Flickr connections, Tino and Ranjith, for a little photo shooting.  That hurt so much.  It was the first time I had woken up that early in months!  But we decided to meet up that early so that we could go check out this mill in Durham during the glorious early morning light.  Glorious and cold.

We had decided on the West Point Mill in Durham because we hardly ever go over to the Durham side and two of us had never been there.  So why not, right?  Kinda like when explorers decide to make it to the North Pole or Mt. Everest; they’ve never been so why not, right?  Rrrriight.  Let’s not kid ourselves. But it is cool that the mill is really old and was in use from 1778 to 1942! That’s reliability right there! And good maintenance!

Anyways, the mill lies along the Eno River, and since it was a few days after the full moon/lunar eclipse, the moon was still in the morning sky.  I think it’s always neat to see the moon during the day. Here it is sneaking a peak over the water and branches: