Visual Apple Pie


A porch, a flag, a little girl rocking in a chair.

100th Archive Retrospective

Now that I'm on my 100th archived page, here is a brief and random retrospective:

• The beginning, including the first annual spring pine tree photo
• First rocks!
• On this page my (older) daughter makes her first appearance.
• Lake Ocoee appears, even though I don't live 30 minutes away yet.
• Endandgered toads and one of my favorite Bastrop photos.
• I went through what I call a "sky phase." It started to kick off on this page.
• First Friday Rock Blogging!
• Some Texas goodness
• My old Thinkpad dies.
• Lots of Austin.
• First appearance of the little white house near where I grew up.
• My old truck dies.
• Moving, one of my cats, Stan, looks out at Houston. Poor Stan passed on in September.
• Lake George Trip.
• Winter scenes in Tennessee and Connecticut.
• The "Road Story".
• Third annual spring pine tree photo on this page.

Georgia Film Crew


From a few weeks ago at Red Clay. These guys were filming a documentary of the history of Catoosa County. That includes a jump over the border to Bradley County, because Red Clay became the capital specifically to escape (temporarily) the Georgia authorities.

Morning in America


Tuesday morning at Lake Ocoee, before doing some paddling in the kayak.

Summation of Election Season


I believe this covers the metaphorical journey of the American voter. And if you don't agree, well, have another drink (or two!) and watch again.

Brilliant Business Idea

While thumbing through the latest L.L. Bean catalog: I told my wife that I should start a regional business that resells L.L. Bean stuff, but with the tags cut off and the names changed to local placenames. For those that haven't followed L.L. Bean over the years: more and more items have Maine placenames attached to them in semi-meaningless (meaningthin?) fashion. Katahdin, Acadia, etc. Plenty of East Tennessee equivalents could be used in short order.

While typing meaningless (well, let's say meaningthin) prose: The current "page" of this blog, numbered under my ad hoc archival strategy, is the 100th (the first archive page is number 99). Perhaps I should post a thoughtful retrospective, or something. Actually, I now have a teeny idea for this. Maybe I'll get to it later this week.

Bicycular Anachronism


I don't think the cyclists are part of the exhibit.