Floyd County High School’s Buffaloes improved their record to 3-1 Friday night with a 41-0 blowout of Tunstall in a non-district game. It was also homecoming so the victory is extra sweet.

One more shot of this month’s full moon. Actually, you didn’t insist. I did. I love taking pictures of the moon.  Shot with a Canon EOS-1D, Mark III, with a 300mm F2.8 lens and a 1.4 tele-extender. Exposure: 1/2000th of a second at F:4. ISO 400.

Crime is on the rise in Floyd and it is destroying the county’s illusion as a safe haven.

Break-ins this week at Dollar General and Subway add to the rash of burglaries of local businesses in recent weeks.

Lots of theories about who might be behind the sharp increase: kids, drug addicts, newcomers, etc.  The string of so many break-ins in such a short time suggests an organized effort.

Floyd County is still a place where many people leave their keys in their cars and their doors unlocked.

That may change.

* Eric Branscom\n* Stephanie Shortt\n* I’d prefer a third choice\n

The moon that brightened a cloudless sky Tuesday night had to fight clouds for attention Wednesday evening but the orb that played peek-a-boo with the cloud cover gave me a chance to try out the new Canon EOS-1D Mark III and shoot the moon as it appeared along Virginia Rte. 8 near the Montgomery County line.

Shot hand-held at three-tenths of a second at F:2.8 with a Canon 24-70 zoom set at 70mm and shot at 1600 ISO with some dodging and burning in Photoshop.