The 31st and last day of the first month of the year of the Camellia

E. BRANCH ON THE PEMIGEWASSETT R. ALONG THE KANCAMAGUS HWY IN NH

It's Sunday and I guess I am bored and looking through old images. Also fooling around with photo shop with the idea of something that looks to some as a little Remingtonesque.

Of course I could have put that in the title and really made for an unpronounceable sentence or fragment thereof.

Understand, I never claimed to be proficient in the structure of the sentence. I do remember somewhere back there, some English teacher trying to show us how to try to diagram a sentence. The operative word in that sentence is "Try". I also flunked biological science in college which consisted of noting but formulas and diagrams of some kind of weird link between this atom and that neutron or something. And thank the lord for spell check.

This is a pretty river. Even in a fog, produced by snow cover on a warming day at higher altitudes, it is crystal clear. I took a day off from fishing on the big lake to wander across the White Mountains and photograph. It was cold, wet, and a lot of snow on the mountain tops. If fact on some of the higher peaks, the weather closed in such that it was a little scary. This is one of the images I dragged out and I do like it.

The image measures only seven inches tall and seventeen wide, so I will have to create a special size frame for it. I think an antique white oak for the frame with some sepia toning and a simple white mat. Got to look into that.

Now I'm kinda excited about it and no longer bored!

The 30th day of the first month of the year of the Camellia

THE MORNING AFTER!

This is an image I made the morning after a hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm on North Carolina's outer banks. In fact it is one of the most famous surf fishing spots in the country----"The Point" or the exact elbow of the barrier islands known as the Outer Banks.

This piece is on sale in my new section of the website called "Accents". That again is your spot to purchase ready to hang fine art photography. There are three sections to this print each measuring 10.625" wide and 17.75" tall. When hung in the group it is almost three feet wide by a foot and half tall.

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We were staying with friends on the island and really sweated having to leave the night before "The morning after".

As it was, the hurricane was downgraded and our vacation plans remained the same. The question the next morning, however, was what to do on a day at the beach with 50 mph winds and rain on a horizontal plain. To me the obvious answer was "The point" to watch the ocean. Normally that spot has so many four wheel drive vehicles that it looks like a Wallmart parking lot on sale day for the first twenty people through the door! Don't get me wrong, nice people but they can smell a bargain from forty miles. But I digress.

There were only two dummies on the beach that day, remarkable in its own right. The guy fishing and myself, and I was the only one to catch anything!

This photo!

The 28th day of the first month of the year of the Camellia

Brown on Brown!

I made this image this morning utilizing the brown water of runoff in the River and last year's cat tails.

This is sort of like making the best of a bad situation. The water is going down, about three or four feet overnight and that is a good thing.

Reminds me of an old George Gobel joke when he asked Johnny Carson if he "Ever had a day when he felt like a pair of brown shoes on a tuxedo?"

So if you have a room that looks like a tuxedo.....I've got the brown shoes for ya!

These, to me, are the brown shoes but the good day today is the tuxedo! Over sixty and I have all the windows open.

I spent the morning checking on the river and shooting in a small community called Olympia here in South Carolina. Going to make a poster for a small show they will do in April. The same format as the Lighthouse posters, but using local sites instead.

The 27th day of the first month of the year of the Camellia

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES

Walked almost three miles today photographing the Riverwalk on our side of the river and the other one on the Columbia side.

The bottom photo is yesterday and the top is today. River rose about six feet over night due probably to runoff from the upstate rains.

Same spot in both photos. The top one was a little farther away from the bridge for obvious reasons.

No, I didn't swim although it was in the mid fifties today!

Nature is amazing!

The 25th day of the first month of the year of the Camellia

EXERCISE OR SOCIALIZE?

This is one of the all time serious questions concerning mankind.

Forget politics and religion. This is a core question we all need to answer.

Since the weather has warmed here, I am back out on the Riverwalk trying to get my "Exercise" in for the day.

Exercise is good and but so is socializing. There seems to me to be a bit of a conflict betwixt the two.

This is also the Palmetto state, so that explains the photograph I took today.

But back to the perplexing problem. I go to the Riverwalk to get my exercise. Today about a mile and half. I have got to get that back up to three or four a day but that is part of the problem.

The first diversion was a wonderful German fellow with whom I speak for extended periods of time.....all good natured fun. However, it takes about fifteen minutes. So walk for a few hundred yards and talk for fifteen minutes.

Today he was with three other people. One of which had just had heart surgery and was trying to mend himself. Well of course you have to compare injuries, or ailments, or at least medications. That's an age thing my friends. Another ten minutes. I reported that I had had my piggy flu vaccine and the gentlemen said "Oh, that's not good". It seems his doctor said not to do it if you had any kinda heart condition. Of course I had a stint put into my chest last August, so this information was certainly timely....Not to worry!

Then comes along one of the policemen, who ride their golf carts up and down the walkway protecting the innocent. Another ten minutes of conversation. I told him that a friend of mine in Maryland had gotten his first deer of the year using a 2009 Hyundai Sante Fe and I had congratulated him on his choice of rifles. Duh! And I thought that it was some kind of new Remington fire arm.

Just got a text message which solves my short term problem with all that. Cayce Riverwalk is now closed until further notice because of high water and flooding.

Boy the Gods conspire to keep us from our due diligence!

At any rate, it is good to be walking and photographing again.

Even if it did take me an hour and half to walk only a mile and a half. Tomorrow I swim!

The 23rd day of the first month of the year of the Camellia

A NEW ADDITION TO THE PRODUCT LINE

This image is only one of the additions to my new product line called "Accents".

This group will provide ready to hang images suited to home and office decor. All images on the web site are of course available in these formats, but there will soon be a separate section there for the "Accent" presentations.

A lonely tree right after a snow storm which coated the limps with soft and fluffy envelope. The pronounced the shadows were created by nature and an early morning light. I added the sepia like tones to the image and framed it in a matte black frame.

This frame measures 11.5 inches square holding a 5x5 inch image. It is a true and sophisticated highlight meant to hang in those spots which are smaller but awkwardly bare. The double white mat with black core is acid free. The image is recessed below the mats on it's own mount which provides the illusion of additional depth. It is what I call "Value added" matting-----a totally different, refined, and creative look.

The central core of the framed "Accent" images will be this size, but all sizes and custom sizes are available as well. If you have any questions please feel free to email me. I will work with you to fulfill your home decor needs for tasteful wall art at reasonable pricing.

The 17th day of the first month of the new year of the Camellia

LONELY AND COLD!

I have always like this image and fooling around with a sepia tone seems to work. The tree is somewhere in the environs of Eastern Neck Island National Wildlife Reserve in Kent County Maryland. The morning after a pretty good snow storm or the day of, I cannot remember which.

It seems that the advancement of the southern face of the new Equatorial Glacier has been temporary halted.

Sixty seven degrees here today after an all night rain.

Life is good is you're a weed looking to sprout in my front yard!