Often, someone will come up at a sporting event or other activity and say something along the lines of “I wish I had a camera like yours so I could take photos like you.” I try to explain that the quality of photography is not determined by the equipment that a photographer uses but by [...]
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A sunset over the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I took a ride into the area recently to clear my head and ponder recent events. As regular readers of this web site know, I have been dealing with issues revolving around the sunset of life — not my own but of a loved one. Dealing with [...]
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Three of our six cats are black so it would be easy to conclude that we’re not superstitious or worried about Friday the 13th. Yeah, right. The Vancouver Sun reports that cat poop can cause schizophrenia in humans. When you have six cats, cat poop is a fact of life. Message to Amy: I’m not [...]
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After a brutal winter that left some Southwestern Virginia school systems closed for an entire month, administrators aren’t taking any chances. Students return to school in Floyd County this morning, joining their counterparts in other counties who started even earlier. The early start will give school systems plenty of “snow days” to bank is another [...]
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Tuesday’s sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains near Meadows of Dan, Virginia (with a little help from Photoshop).
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The controversy over new Floyd Town Manager Lance Terpenny’s lucrative departure from his former job in Christiansburg just won’t die. Some angry Christiansburg Town Council members say they were kept in the dark about just how much money the town would be paying out in severance for the town manager they fired last month and [...]
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When Amy and I attended the inaugural Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis in 1994, a NASCAR official arrogantly predicted the race would “be bigger than the Indy 500 in the coming years.” An overflow crowd of more than 300,000 packed the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that year. A decade and a half later, empty seats outnumbered those [...]
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Lance Terpenny’s controversial move to the Floyd Town Manager’s job after his ouster from a similar post in Christiansburg adds another player to the county’s growing motorcycle mafia — an increasing group of government officials, business leaders and other prominent citizens who ride. Terpenny not only owns three Harley-Davidsons (two customized Softails and a restored [...]
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In the go-go days earlier in this decade, Smith Mountain Lake stood proud as the poster child for conspicuous economic consumption with million dollar homes, six-figure speedboats and a lavish lifestyle that revolved around good times, easy credit and stretched finances. But the economic recession brought reality to the lifestyle of the not-so-rich and more [...]
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The severe thunderstorms that roared through Floyd County and much of the rest of Southwestern Virginia Thursday didn’t drop that much rain on our property but the howling wind snapped a Poplar in half along our driveway and ripped the inner part of the tree from his bark. The falling core narrowly missed a trailer [...]
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