You know how you can know someone your entire life and still learn new things about them? This past weekend my lovely parents were visiting my family and I discovered that my dad can make the best root beer floats. Seriously. Upon my first taste I was totally amazed, impressed, then peeved that...
Category Archives: My Life
Rehoboth Beach Colors
On a whim I took a quick trip to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, this weekend with my family. The weather was cold and windy, but we had a blast walking along the beach, running from waves and chasing seagulls. During the summer, Rehoboth Beach is simply a mad house, but this time of year, traffic...
ProPhotoBlogs Shout Out
I recently upgraded my Wordpress site to the new ProPhoto2 Blog theme by NetRivet Websites and was astounded by the simplicity yet complete control this theme offers. Jared Henderson, who designed it, must be some sort of coding genius, because this theme has options and settings I never imagined possible. He’s very responsive...
Apple MacBook – Dead Hard Drive and Disc Drive
So this is totally off topic and will only interest those looking for Mac repair tips. Beside my interest in photography, I’m also a bit of a tech geek and enjoy building computers, fixing them and reading about technology in general. Two of my favorite sites include Engadget and Wired.
The other day I was...
Dolly Sods Wilderness
A perfect follow-up to my last post about spending time in nature, would be to write about an absolutely fantastic backpacking trip I took with a group of friends in April 2008 to the Dolly Sods Wilderness, which is located in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia.
While much can be written about this trip, like...
Scout Photo Contest
For several years I’ve had the great pleasure of serving in the Boy Scout program, helping young men advance through the ranks, learn life skills and lessons and in the process taking many great backpacking trips. As some may know, the Boy Scout program has a merit badge program that encourages scouts to focus...
Heels Over Head
At the end of summer, Arlington hosts a music festival called Planet Arlington and for the past couple of years our family has walked down to the event. While this post is not about the festival, the following come from our evening spent hanging out with our friends at the Netherlands Carillon.
My little subject here...