My parents just got two new kittens. I snapped some photos of them getting adjusted to the laundry room. They are only 8 weeks old, weened off of milk and on to solid food. The male kitten is named Cody and the female is named Callie. […]
Rough Ridge is a neat little spot about 400 feet above the Blue Ridge Parkway. Its outcroppings of rock and relatively low wind-swept brush provide the opportunity for panoramic vistas of the surrounding mountains. Hikers can get there by using a half-mile long portion of the 13-mile Tanawha Trail. It is worth noting that sections [...]
I drilled a hole in our fancy, wall-mounted Bestå cabinets to run some wires. Surprise quickly followed when I discovered the insides to be a corrugated cardboard filler. Ha, I knew those things were a little light...
My girlfriend Janis had a website when she graduated from SCAD years ago, however it wasn’t very extensible or easy to update. As usually happens with hard-to-update websites, it languished and became obsolete. She is in a position now, where having a place to showcase and share her work would be very helpful, so I [...]
Baxter is my little gentleman. I'm going to take him to foggy London Town...
This photo was taken while Diva was hanging out on a steel beam. Large windows and a white-washed ceiling provided excellent lighting to capture the all black cat. Janis has had Diva since she was back in college. These days she enjoys licking people and chasing her tail, when she's not sleeping or pooping of [...]
Modern architecture meets the the Lower East Side of Manhattan with the new academic building at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Advertised as “an innovative learning environment for the exceptional students enrolled today and for those to come,” its undulating, perforated metal skin seems to support at least the idea [...]
Sitting dormant on the west side of Manhattan for the last 20+ years, the High Line is a former elevated freight rail line that carried goods in and out of the west side of New York City. Several groups of activists lobbied for and eventually gained support of the city to preserve the infrastructure and [...]
