God I Love Rural Virginia!Locust Dale, VA on Rt. 15 in Madison County. It has it all–An old boarded up building, a beat-up trailer for a post office and a two door outhouse in the parking lot! Who could ask for more. God’s country.
Great Time At A Piano Bar….I ThinkOrlando, FL–During a trip to Florida to see the Daytona 500 my friends and I (guy road trip) stopped in a local piano bar. Enjoyed it quite a bit but this was the fifth bar we had been to that day. Thought I w…
Architecture and Speed–It will All Make SenseOrlando FL–The main drag in front of our hotel. Eight years as an elected official changes you. You see the world in a different light. To most of you this is a rather mundane photo of a mundane stre…
Need More Gas PumpsLouisa, VA–No I have not lost my fascination with abandoned gas pumps. What makes this pair all the more fascinating is that they are located on a rural dead-end road with no signs of a building structure nearby. T…
English Gardens vs. Continental Gardens, Democracy vs. TotalitarianismOrange, VA–Ah the idyllic spring day on the back roads of Virginia. Isn’t nature wonderful! Note the beautiful carpet of little purple weedy things. The English have it right,…
A Guy Moment…….Ladies if I may have a moment alone with the guys………….Picture this–Laid back with your feet up on your barber’s chair with remote in hand and the big plasma screen in front of you. A brief turn in the chair and there is a sm…
Don’t See This EverydayMadison County off Rt. 522–This area had some serious brush fires recently. This is actually a house not too far behind me. It was saved when a fire department tanker truck got stuck at the back of the house. T…
“Doughnut hole” wall cloud and lowering over fieldWall cloud and rotating lowering (at left) over York NEOur last view of the storm before it became rain-wrapped and we lost sight of it. A tornado was reported shortly after this by another onlook…
Yet another late night which will be followed by an early morning tomorrow as we overnight here in Walnut Iowa. Our original target for today was to be southeastern Kansas and we actually motored south from Salina this morning until a new Storm P…
In Fuzzy Nation, Scalzi combines his usual quick witted take on sci-fi with a legal thriller to produce a totally fun book to read. Even though the book is loads of fun, it takes on a very serious issue. What would happen if corporate America were mining a distant planet and stumbled into a sentient […]
