The sun was shining brightly, but there was a chilly breeze. We walked a segment of the Mountain to Sea Trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was a lovely little intermission. A Year Ago: Back in the Saddle Again Although I still have a tremendous amount of prep work to go, I wanted to…
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De consolatione crustum
What do you do for the man you love when he turns *coughety-cough* years old? You take him out for authentic Neapolitan pizza at Pizza Pura. That’s a classic margherita pie he’s slicing into. I had a Fungi white pizza and an arugula salad that were both impeccable. Recommended! A Year Ago: Rural Surreal I…
Dance Like No One’s Watching…
…even if someone is. I don’t think she was actually listening to Abba’s Dancing Queen, although the beat is close enough and the lyrics apropos. But that surely doesn’t matter: the joy here is her small moves, her hand flourishes, the self-contained boogie that occasional throws a kung-fu punch for punctuation. I have no idea…
Petting the Kitty
Bob is in love. He has fallen hard and fast for the feline in his lap. (She still doesn’t have a new name, but you can recognize her as the possessor of the Mesmer eyes from a few posts back.) This cat is very friendly and personable, has super-soft short fur, and a dynamic deep…
Eddie
This is one of the two guys who were working on my basement slab. (There’s a lot of time sitting around waiting for the concrete to set before the next step.) When I introduced myself and he told me his name, I didn’t catch it all. To my citified ear, there were about three vowels…
Love Wins!
Anyone who’s lived in an urban environment has had this experience. You are stuck in a public place and someone starts holding forth, loudly, obnoxiously. They begin inflicting their opinion on everyone in earshot. Whether the product of mental imbalance or just sheer assholery, this behavior is more often than not fueled by anger, resentment,…
My Neighbor John
There was a loud knocking on my door. I wasn’t expecting a visitor, but I went to see who it was. There stood my next-door neighbor, John Guciardo, apologizing and asking for a favor. Would I take a photograph of him with one of his sculptures? Of course I would. He gave me his iPhone…
No Loitering
I’ve been sitting on this particular image for half a year. It was taken at the same time as this photo. Shot at an appalling 1600 ISO, wide open, the digital file is an unholy mess of noise and artifacts. To compound its shortcomings, the image only reveals its charms when seen large. So I…
Immigré
Asheville will have yet another new resident sometime in February. Bob is moving here from Las Vegas, for no better reason than he wants to be near me. I am very glad. We spent the past week looking at apartments of all different sorts in a wide variety of locations. In the end, he chose…
Diner
Contemporary nostalgia: a yearning in the present for a past that never quite was. A Year Ago: Inside Curve The view down a stairwell is iconic, perhaps even clichéd… [read more]