Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns
From the monthly archives:
Nearby, in the small town of Spencer, NC, lies the North Carolina Transportation Museum–a 57-acre site of what was once Southern Railway Company’s largest steam locomotive repair facility.
If you’re into history here’s a few interesting tidbits about this site:
The Town of Spencer exists primarily because of Spencer Shops, and grew up around the repair facility–the [...]
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My first thought when viewing this photo of vineyard grapevine rows was that wouldn’t it be nice if our lifes could be so neatly ordered–everything defined and in place, the proper sequence, easily accessible, predictable, from the beginning to the end of the row.
But then the reality of that thought struck home. How dull and [...]
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Back in June I posted the rumor of the Nikon D300s that included SD storage and video capabilities. Well it’s more then rumor as Nikon introduced it today.
The D300s practically replaces the regular D300 and adds 720p, 24FPS video recording inherited from the D90 but with several improvements: it can now autofocus while shooting movies, [...]
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. – Truman Capote
I’ve met some wonderful people through the internet and by writing Meandering Passage. I’ve enjoy interesting conversations which some intelligent people, but that’s not to say I consider myself [...]
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A large near perfect six inch wide leaf growing ten feet about the ground, natural back lighting, 300mm (70-300mm f/4.5-5.6) Nikon lens, 1/350 sec at f/5.6, and a handheld Nikon D700 went into making this photo.
My general purpose Tamron 28-300mm VC full frame lens is being retired and I’ll soon sell it. While I love [...]
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If you’ve walked along a seldom used forest trail you’ve probably experienced your share of walking into nearly invisible spiderwebs.
I hate it when the web falls across my face and hair. After spending minutes trying to remove the web the thought of where’s the spider that spun this web begins to creep into my mind–still [...]
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My daughter, Amberle, shared some of her photos from the recent beach trip I missed out on, so I thought I’d share a few of them here–I did do a little post processing for her.
When we’re together, she and I have a running good humor battle about who’s going to take the best photos. To [...]
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Adrift
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. – Marianne Williamson
The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come. – Lee Iacocca
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I’m an Apple Mac fan, I love photography, I like new gadget news, I like to keep up with technical events on the web, I have friends with their own web sites/blogs, and I want to keep up with the technical/business/US/world news on the web. So I have a lot of feeds and the mix and number of feeds are constantly changing. 
For years I’ve used the newsgator NetNewsWire client application for Mac OS X to manage, view and read the multitude of updates from these RSS feeds.
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The posts at the end of these vineyards rows have been set into the ground at an angle, leaning outward, to help withstand the force and weight of the wire and vines pulling inward. This angle transfers some of the side force into downward force making a much stronger structure.
It’s a common practice to reinforce [...]
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SoFoBoMo '09
