December 25, 2016

"Celebrate the Season, All Creatures Great and Small!"

Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
Arivaca, Arizona

December 25, 2016

Good advice to save the day .. and keep the B/P down.

December 25, 2016

Our Town: Christmas Eve

Greenville, SC
12/24/2016

December 16, 2016

Seasons Greetings from a Fire Lookout Camp

East Butte Fire Lookout
Deschutes National Forest
Oregon

November 28, 2016

The 10,000 acre Pinnacle Mountain Fire (Upstate South Carolina)

The bad news: It is now within about three miles of my house.

The good news: This area is forecasted to get 5-6 inches of rain, starting late today, over the next three days. That will virtually douse any and all wildland fires in this area. I call it "auto mop-up."

The really good news: My mountain neighbors are finally heeding my warnings of the last few years about the fire dangers of this area. Nothing like the smell of drift smoke in the air to help sell the "Firewise.org" concept! My new bumper stickers come this week: "FIREWISE YET?" I'll post pics when I get them.

Pics: Sunday, November 27, from Caesar's Head State Park, SC (Sony A7-R2).

November 7, 2016

Adobe Creative Cloud/Google Nik users: GREAT NEWS!

The new CC-2017 update (PS/LR/BRIDGE) kicked out my Nik plug-ins this morning (11/7/2016). Of course, I totally panicked and my B/P increased significantly. Imagine my surprise when I called Adobe and they very graciously offered to restore third-party Nik (Google-owned) to their Adobe products.

What the hell is going on? I had three employees at Lowes trying to help me yesterday in Brevard. The South Carolina DMV is actually a pleasant place. And now Adobe admits that third party plug-in software exists, and actually helps install it if you have it downloaded.

Life is good!

November 1, 2016

An anodyne: Totally non-election subject matter (photos)

Mountain House: South Carolina



Secluded Cabin: South Carolina



Garden Bell: Mountain Bridge Wilderness, SC/NC



Last Leaves: Caesar's Head, SC



Reedy River: Greenville, SC



Reedy River: Greenville, SC



Morning Street Scene: Greenville, SC

October 14, 2016

What would Texans Ann Richards and/or Molly Ivins say?

OMG, I miss them. I can just imagine their pithy comments on Donald Trump and the GOP train wreck. But the good die young (or too soon), and the incredibly bad seem to be immortal.

October 10, 2016

I hope no DUers played the "1 Drink per Trump Sniffle" game last night ..

If you did, you probably are not reading this the morning after. Trump sniff counts ranged from mid-80s to mid-90s. Too bad Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is not around to diagnose Trump's problem(s)!

September 24, 2016

Two more of my faves from the Chihuahuan Desert (White Sands National Monument)

Dune Shadow


Solitide