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  • Mountain house

    • 28 Sep 2011
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    Mountainhosue

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  • Blues for Monday

    • 26 Sep 2011
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    • Memphis blues music
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    Eugene Gales of Memphis (discovered via brother Eric Gales on Google+). "Next time the repo come for me, It's going to be six bangs instead of six strings."

     

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  • Alison Krauss and Union Station in Knoxville

    • 25 Sep 2011
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    Loved Alison Krauss and Union Station's show at the Tennessee Theatre on Saturday night, one of two sold out shows at the Tennessee this weekend.  The Knoxville shows are among the last of a U.S. tour that began in April in support of their album, Paper Airplane. For the size band, they have a big traveling caravan; two tractor-trailers and three tour buses were parked outside the theater (they mention the tour and the buses in the video above).

    While the band has taken long breaks between albums and tours, it is amazing that the musicians have basically been playing together for two decades. There were a couple newer members, a drummer and a keyboardist, in the show.

    I once was on a plane from Newark to Nashville with Union Station (sans Krauss).

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  • Big Bald Mountain photos

    • 19 Sep 2011
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    My last batch of Big Bald Mountain photos (I promise). It's above 5,000 feet is on the North Carolina-Tennessee line.

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  • HDR photos from Big Bald Mountain

    • 19 Sep 2011
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    • Big Bald HDR photography
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    Some HDR photos from Big Bald Mountain that I took over the weekend..

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  • Planet of the frogs?

    • 19 Sep 2011
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    I saw these at the Art in Autumn Festival in Weaverville, NC. They had already taken over the street.

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  • View from Big Bald Mountain

    • 18 Sep 2011
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    Visitnc.com says of Big Bald Moutanin, which is on the Appalachian Trial:

    The 5,516 foot Big Bald, a mountain on the Tennessee-North Carolina Border, has one of the best views of any peak on the trail.
    Latitude: 36° 6' 57.96" N

    it was beautiful on Saturday. Somestimes shrouded in clouds and sometimes with great views in wonderful late afternoon sunlight.

    Here is a link to some photos I shot last year from another vantage point on the bald.

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  • How to keep score at Coors Field

    • 16 Sep 2011
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    • Denver Photos baseball
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    Some photos from inside of the manually maintained scoreboard at Coors Field in Denver.

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  • A 2001 vacation in New York

    • 11 Sep 2011
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    We went on a vacation to New York in late June of 2001. We didn't go in the World Trade Center Towers; we just didn't have time, but I did capture it in a few shots, some from the Empire State Building and some from Ellis Island. We celebrated our son Eric's 16th birthday in New York. A couple months later. ...

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  • Undaunted

    • 8 Sep 2011
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    Nice video by East Carolina University Athletic Director Terry Holland about Pirateland (via @Elector) .

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