OK KIDDIES, THE PROFESSOR IS IN THE HOUSE!
Always wanted to say that.
The weekend, past, started out with a neighborhood garbage or garage sale at a number of houses. Only ran from 8 to 12, but paid for dinner Saturday night.
Now for the 98.8% of you photographers, like myself, who aren't Annie Liebowitz and never will be.....here's a flash. Have an art/garage sale. Cut your prices on all that old inventory from art work to equipment, and then cut that in half again. Make everyone think they are getting the deal of a lifetime. I sold some stuff and a few pieces of older stuff that I knew I would never sell to any discerning buyer. Nobody left the place without having a shot at cheating me out of something. It was great and some people actually got some stuff that every garage should have two of. At other sales of this nature a friend of mine sold a whole bunch of his old inventory he'd already written off, and another had a $15,000 day.
Oh, and Annie Liebowitz (I don't even know if I spelled it right)-----if you don't know who she is----Google it. I make some pennies when you search from here. I think!
Sunday, we went to Georgetown, SC to see replicas of the Nina and Pinta. Now gather your children and grand children around for some education. Don't bother with the great grand children, they already refer to you as that old person sitting on the rocker in the corner a slurpin n a droolin. There---you've already lost all your street cred.
These boats are replicas of, now let's hear it altogether now , the ones that founded America. You know the Italian guy who sailed the ocean blue in 1492, that the modern media discredits because the Vikings might have been here first. You know, Columbo! No he was the guy who always had a lollipop in his mouth. No, no, no ------ That was Kojack and another country altogether. Columbo wore the trench coat. Err, Columbus.
Here is a shot of the bow of one of the boats, probably the Pinta because I can't find the ~ thingy on my keyboard that goes over the second n in Nina. Of course in the background is a boat that can best be described as one of the world's largest holes in the water into which one pours money. These replicas were about 85 feet long and that yacht was bigger than that.
The harbor at Georgetown is really very nice and boats from all over the world seem to find safety there.
The smoke stacks in the background are those at a paper plant. The odor produced by those plants have to be the original source of that produced by those little back kitties with a white stripe found mostly in residential garbage cans.
The town itself is really a nice place to visit and live. Oak lined residential streets with all the southern charm of a Charleston on a smaller scale. They even have one of the old tyme theatres. Love the window above the sign.
It seems that no matter where I travel, I have become obsessed with pictures of the flag. That is, again for the kids, the flag of the country in which we live. The country those original boats discovered. OK, the kids can go back to their "Game boys" or whatever they call them today.
God bless Columbus and the Founders of this great country! Lets not try to mess it up too bad.
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