Pictures
Brandon hosted a pleasant gathering at his new place. As usual, you always think you take WAY more pictures than you actually do. Even more perturbing was the fact that I *completely* forgot to get a picture of the host himself!
Anyway, classy move having a barkeep. Someday, if I save up, I can have as many cars as Brandon does.
Just posted some pictures from Shih Fang and Ken’s Spring Get Together.
I’ve been scanning older pictures and have begun posting some of them on Flickr. Nearly all of them were taken with my Praktica LTL3 camera back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. If you knew me back then, take a peek!
This is an ongoing project so they’ll be going up over the next few months.
I’m slowly moving my pictures from my own, locally hosted, gallery up to Flickr. There’s a wider audience there and, quite frankly, the local gallery is a bit onerous to maintain. There are *thousands* of files involved so any updates and backups take quite a while to complete.
These pictures were taken at Michelle’s office’s annual Hallowe’en party. The costumes there are usually quite spectacular and this year was no exception!
We spent the weekend at a great little cabin up in Ellijay, Ga.
The cabin was located on a really steep hill on 6 acres of property. It was very nicely appointed, having everything you would need to spend a week there except food. We took the opportunity to visit and hike in a couple of local parks, Fort Mountain the first day and, after a great twisty-turny drive, Raven Cliffs Falls.
The hikes were pretty long for me, I’m not much of a walker (I run for exercise, drive everywhere else :)) but it was a satisfying romp in the woods and I got some nice pictures out of it. Click on the picture of the falls to see more.
I’ve created a new set within which to post my jeeping pictures on Flickr. Rather than simply dumping them all up there, I thought I’d add a few at a time. It’s a little less overwhelming that way for both viewers and for me. 🙂 Just click on the picture at left to jump there.
I had my jeep from 1998 through until 2002. It was a lot of fun but definitely not a way to make any money. Then again, hobbies seldom are profitable. Those lucky few who can parlay their passions into livelihoods and continue to enjoy them are truly on top of the world.
I’m trying out something a little different. I’ve enjoyed looking at other folks’ “365” pictures enough that I thought I’d do something similar, so I’ve created “Marc-a-Day” on Flickr. Mostly for my own amusement, it will feature some highlight from each day from now until whenever I decide it should end. I’m aiming for AT LEAST a year. I suppose it all hinges on how interesting my life is after all 🙂
Being somewhat paranoid with respect to the longevity of web companies, I’m also duplicating these (for now) in my own Gallery.
OK, so I realize that looking at other folks’ pictures is not always the most exciting thing in the world, but maybe you’ve got some free time on your hands! 🙂
Here is the photo album from our Charleston, South Carolina trip if you’re interested:
We met up with the Naidus in Savannah over Thanksgiving. We spent a couple of days at the “Westin Savannah Harbor“. Hint, if you’ll be spending a lot of time in your room, shell out the extra $30 a night and get the River view. The golf course view is OK, except it’s really the “parking lot, marsh, roadway *then* golf course view”. 🙂 No worries for us since we spent so little daylight time in the room but it *does* explain why there were no images of that view on their web site.
Check out the pictures here:
Largely the place was a ghostland for Thanksgiving. I was *very* surprised. The River Street that I was expecting is completely packed, you know tourists in the sidewalk, kids in their parent’s cars cruising up and down the boulevard. So we pretty much had the place to ourselves. Since we arrived later in the day we were looking for a place to eat right away, but most places were either closed, or their kitchens were closed.
Fortunately, a friend at work told me about
Kevin Barry’s (Irish) Pub. They were open until the wee hours (at least *much* later than we were going to be up), but they had some great live music – Irish songs, of course.
We ended up at the Bacon Park Golf course before heading home. Not one of my best games, but I’ve been unable to practice much lately at the driving range…
Overall a great trip and a nice diversion. We only spent the Thursday and Friday there so we still had the rest of the weekend available for getting the Christmas decorations culled (still haven’t set those up yet!).
We just received a slew of new pictures from friend’s cameras and have posted a selection in our 2007 Hallowe’en gallery. Check them out here:
