Been swamped getting ready for school on Tuesday…also archiving and cleaning out a very full hard drive. Here is a frame I liked from the area around Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, China, where I went on many a day trip.

Been swamped getting ready for school on Tuesday…also archiving and cleaning out a very full hard drive. Here is a frame I liked from the area around Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, China, where I went on many a day trip.

I spent yesterday at FedEx Field in not-so-sunny Landover for the first home game of the Redskins’ season. Surprisingly they won but I wasn’t there to see it – I bailed early as my deadline had come and gone, I was having a hell of a time sending pictures out and well, it is FedEx […]

The Free Lance–Star:
Rep. Rob Wittman has joined other top Republican leaders in the state who are shunning Catherine T. Crabill, a controversial candidate for the Northern Neck’s seat in the House of Delegates.
Wittman spokesman Steve Stampley said last week that the congressman from Montross will endorse neither Crabill nor incumbent Albert Pollard, D-Lancaster, in the […]

Clipper City Heavy Seas Big DIPA is the first in the new Mutiny Fleet series of big beers from Clipper City Brewing Company. I’m a big fan of Clipper City, especially their Heavy Seas line of beers, so I was excited to try this new addition to the line…

My favorite wine of the summer is a little Greek white wine I learned about through Eric Asimov’s wine column in the NY Times. It’s the Mantinia Tselepos made from the Moschofilero grape, an indigenous varietal to Greece. Asimov described is “smelling like rose petals and tasting like grapefruit” and it is absolutely correct. In a sea of wine that all try to taste the same, this wine is beautiful and different. Pair with lighter seafood dishes, raw oysters, salads and sushi.
We have it in the Enomatics right now if you are curious and want to taste it.

A fortnightly rant FL-S style with a h/t to the late Dan Garson who snapped the “greatest Woodstock photos never before seen.” Dan’s collection is currently on display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

By the time we got to Woodstock,
We were half a million strong;
And everywhere there was song and celebration.
And I dreamed I saw […]

This is what I get for being out of town today. This storm, crossing Potomac River between Dahlgren and Colonial Beach, shows obvious rotation (circled) in this doppler radar view at 8:02 pm. I would lay odds that there’s a significant wall cloud on …

Now that it seems safe to say that Hurricane Bill will completely miss the Mid-Atlantic (except for some high surf at the beaches) all eyes are turning toward the next little disturbance circled in yellow above. Will it develop into anything of note? …

It was originally scheduled to be at Germanna Community College, now it’s at the University of Mary Washington:
Date: Tuesday, September 1st
Times: 6:00PM to 8:00PM*
Location:
Univeristy of Mary Washington
Dodd Auditorium
1301 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
The next time that he decides to change the location of a meeting, it might be help if he sent out a separate e-mail, […]