Monthly Archives: March 2018

Source

Posted on March 27, 2018 by d4vid

Found it.  This is where all pigeons come from.  I assume they are then shipped to all the major cities in North America via train.

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Smokey

Posted on March 27, 2018 by d4vid

Befitting it’s name, most of the epic vistas of the Great Smokey Mountains were shrouded in fog & cloud.  But look at these elk on the eastward approach, lounging around in their cervine splendor.

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Tears

Posted on March 27, 2018 by d4vid

Visited the Museum of the Cherokee Indian.  Pleasantly high production value. I had never heard of this technique of poisoning fish before.I wonder if Sterling Archer knows the origin of Lacrosse?I don’t remember ever hearing the term “trade guns” in … Continue reading →

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Wood

Posted on March 27, 2018 by d4vid

Found this lovely nod to Tolkien.

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Hardware

Posted on March 27, 2018 by d4vid

Because of the David Wilcox song, I was unsurprised to find this hardware store just down the road from a Lowe’s.

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Nest

Posted on March 26, 2018 by d4vid

I stopped at a scenic overlook of the New River.  Two local women where already there, looking out at the island in the middle of the river with their gigantic binoculars.They offered me a chance to look through their binoculars.  … Continue reading →

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Country

Posted on March 26, 2018 by d4vid

Yes, driving through West Virginia, I played John Denver’s “Country Roads” on a loop the whole time.

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Joy

Posted on March 26, 2018 by d4vid

The curtains in my boutique hotel in Lewisburg, West Virginia look like a Joy Division album cover.

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Church

Posted on March 25, 2018 by d4vid

I stopped for lunch while driving through the Shenandoah Valley.  I was surprised to see how busy the Applebee’s was on a Sunday, but then remembered that this must be the after-Church lunch crowd.

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Ridge

Posted on March 25, 2018 by d4vid

I drove Sky Line Drive along the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Shenandoah National Park.The altitude was high enough that the cold air had preserved the recent snow.But the relentless sunlight had been melting the snow, which would refreeze … Continue reading →

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Picnic

Posted on March 24, 2018 by d4vid

The Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves the location of two important battles in the Civil War which are named after the small stream that runs through the land:  First Battle of Bull Run and Second Battle of Bull Run.Bull Run … Continue reading →

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Targets

Posted on March 24, 2018 by d4vid

I attended the three hour March for Our Lives event in D.C.The Mall was already booked, so they closed Pennsylvania Ave.  It was simultaneously the most inspiring and most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever seen.  I’ve never seen so many young … Continue reading →

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Potbelly

Posted on March 24, 2018 by d4vid

I stumbled into D.C.’s Chinatown and was able to translate the characters written in gold on the entrance arch, even though they were written in traditional characters and right-to-left.  It says…Chinatown. As a bonus, I learned the Chinese characters for … Continue reading →

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Coward

Posted on March 24, 2018 by d4vid

The current occupant of this house was too cowardly to stay in town during the March for Our Lives.

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Objectivists

Posted on March 24, 2018 by d4vid

In case you were wondering what kind of people live in the D.C. area.

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