first draft, fragmentary

index

February 8 - Smithsonian

American History Museum

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February 8 - Friday Flower 2019/06

Spanish bayonet

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February 4 - Point of Rocks

a classic rail station in western Maryland

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February 4 - Pictures-A-Week 52

December 23-29

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February 3 - Uncle Ric’s Irresponsible Reading List

The American Indian in North Carolina by Douglas Rights

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February 1 - Week 52 Trains

December 23-29 in Maryland and DC

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February 1 - Friday Flower 2019/05

another pansy

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January 31 - John Waters’ Indecent Exposure

Baltimore Museum of Art

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January 31 - Pictures-A-Week 51

December 16-22

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January 25 - Week 51 Trains

December 16-22 in Chocowinity

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January 25 - Friday Flower 2019/04

pansy

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January 23 - Foggy day along the Pamlico

cruising the Pamlico basin December 15

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January 23 - Week 50 Trains

December 9-15 in Wilson & Chocowinity

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January 22 - CC & T

a November performance

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January 22 - CLNA Yard

Poking around the Carolina Coastal yard

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January 18 - Pictures-A-Week 50

December 9-15

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January 18 - Week 49 Trains

December 2-8 around Beaufort County

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January 18 - Friday Flower 2019/03

sunflower

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January 11 - Another day down east

Pamlico Beach

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January 11 - Friday Flower 2019/02

dead flowers

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January 11 - Pictures-A-Week 49

December 2-8

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January 4 - Friday Flower 2019/01

tea camellia 

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January 4 - New ties for Marsden

railroad track work in Chocowinity

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January 3 - West Virginia antique trains

Durbin, Elkins, Belington, Philippe WV

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December 31 - Week 48 Trains

November 25-December 1 NC trains

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December 31 - Pictures-A-Week 48

November 25-December 1

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December 28 - Week 47 Trains

November 18-24

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December 28 - Friday Flower 52

aster

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December 27 - Uncle Ric’s Irresponsible Reading List

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction (Eighth Series)

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December 25 - Pictures-A-Week 47

November 18-24

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December 23 - A day Down East

part 3, a peek at fishing village Atlantic, NC

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December 21 - Friday Flower 51

another Christmas cactus

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December 20 - Trains Week 46

November 11-17

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December 17 - A day Down East

A peek at fishing villages, part 2

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December 14 - Friday Flower 50

Christmas Cactus

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December 12 - A day Down East

A peak at fishing villages, part 1

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December 12 - Pictures-A-Week 46

November 11-17

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December 6 - Friday Flower 49

morning glory

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December 6 - Short line trains

Chocowinity & Washington November 4-10

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December 5 - Pictures-A-Week 45

November 4-10

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November 26 - Class-One Trains

Choco & Greenville November 4-10

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November 24 - Chasing 265

I follow a freight from Pinetown to Belhaven and back again

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November 23 - Friday Flower 47

firecracker sunflower

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November 23 - Uncle Ric’s Irresponsible Reading List

Schafer & Welsh — Streamliners, History of a Railroad Icon

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November 18 - Bills Hot Dogs

behind the counter (1990)

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November 16 - Friday Flower 46

redstar

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November 14 - Pictures-A-Week 44

October 28-November 3

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November 11 - Mary Bell Toler

cat napping (1986)

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November 9 - Friday Flower 45

aster

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November 6 - Pictures-A-Week 43

October 21-27

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November 3 - Uncle Ric’s Irresponsible Reading List

First in Flight by Stephen Kirk

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November 2 - Friday Flower 44

coreopsis

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October 31 - Pictures-A-Week 42

October 14-20

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October 26 - Friday Flower 43

heath aster

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October 25 - Pictures-A-Week 41

October 6-13

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October 22 - Pictures-A-Week 40

September 30-October 6

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October 19 - Friday Flower 42

broomsedge

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October 19 - Uncle Ric’s Irresponsible Reading List

Man Ray by Roland Penrose

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October 17 - NC State Fair

Monday at the Fair

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October 13 - Union Station

Raleigh’s new passenger rail station

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October 13 - Pictures-A-Week 39

September 23-29

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October 12 - Friday Flower 41

morning glory

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October 12 - Streets of Raleigh 2

candid street photography from September 26

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October 11 - Pictures-A-Week 38

September 16-22

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October 10 - Uncle Ric’s Irresponsible Reading List

Tales From Old Carolina by F. Roy Johnson

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October 6 - Pictures-A-Week 37

September 9-15

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October 5 - Friday Flower 40

Carolina Elephantsfoot

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October 2 - Rockin’ Robins

a flock of robins playing in the yard

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October 2 - Uncle Ric’s Irresponsible Reading List

Thomas Jefferson’s The Life and Morals of Jesus

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September 30 - Pictures-A-Week 36

September 2-8

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September 28 - Pictures-A-Week 35

August 26-September 1

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September 28 - Friday Flower 39

Virginia Creeper

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September 25 - Big fuzzy yard visitor

a curious tourist

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September 21 - Friday Flower 38

spatter dock

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September 20 - Pictures-A-Week 34

August 19-25

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September 14 - Friday Flower 37

cana lily

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September 13 - Great Blue Heron

a chummy, town based heron

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September 13 - Straight line fever

a box turtle swimming the creek

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September 10 - Pictures-A-Week 33

August 12-18

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September 10 - Week 32 trains

Just around Chocowinity’s Marsden Yard

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September 10 - Keeping the fleet moving

TB Smith boatyard in Beaufort

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September 6 - Friday Flower 36

beggar-lice/desmodium

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August 31 - Friday Flower 35

portulaca 

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August 30 - Pictures-A-Week 32

August 5-11

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August 28 - Beach trip

vacationing on the Outer Banks 

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August 28 - More signs in the sign gallery

a fresh dozen pics of signs 

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August 26 - Shakin’ Sherman at the Berkeley

Raleigh on June 8, 2018 

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August 24 - Pictures-A-Week 31

here, there, and, yonder 

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August 24 - Friday Flower 34

evening primrose 

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August 21 - Bubbles on the Beach

soapy fun 

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August 21 - Bill Lyerly on a Sunday afternoon

Garner’s Tavern in the Grove 

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August 17 - Friday Flower 33

lotus 

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August 13 - Matt Holloman

a singer/guitarist 

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August 10 - Friday Flower 32

marsh mallow and insect

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August 10 - Tanager feeding young

five photo sequence

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August 9 - Pictures-A-Week 29

July 15-21

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August 3 - Kite Festival

40th Annual Wright Kite Festival

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August 3 - Friday Flower 31

Joe Bells

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July 31 - Pictures-A-Week 28

bird, and trains, and sunsets on the creek

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July 28 - Uncle Ric’s Irresponsible Reading List

Hans Richter’s Dada -- Art and Anti-Art

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July 27 - Friday Flower 30

another of our swamp beauties

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July 26 - Pictures-A-Week 27

boats and planes and trains and pets and Fourth of July

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July 23 - Streets of Raleigh

a little street photography

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July 21 - Fresh Signs

the first dozen are newly added to my sign gallery

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July 21 - Pictures-A-Week 26

more birds and trains and sunsets

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July 20 - Friday Flower 29

a Swan Quarter beauty

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July 18 - Pictures-A-Week 25

a few from around town

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July 18 - eyeWITNess news

Chocowinity’s old TV station destroyed

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July 17 - Pictures-A-Week 24

street scenes, music, life on the creek

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July 13 - Friday Flower 28

hydrangea

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July 10 - On the beach road

the old road on NC’s Outer Banks

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July 7 - Pictures-A-Week 23

June 3-9

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July 7 - Boneyard

April fundraiser performance at the Turnage

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July 6 - Friday Flower 27

a swamp faerie

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July 6 - Uncle Ric’s Reading List

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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July 5 - Playing with fire

toying with photographing fireworks

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July 2 - Pictures-A-Week 22

May 27-June 2

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July 2 - Eddie and the Boys

April fundraiser performance at the Turnage

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July 1 - Uncle Ric’s Reading List

Random Shots by John G. Bragaw

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June 28 - National Zoo

we visited the zoo in DC with the girls

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June 26 - Pictures-A-Week 21

May 20-26

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June 24 - Judy and Jerry’s house

Assembling a pre-fab house

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June 23 - Pictures-A-Week 20

May 13-19

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June 22 - Friday Flower 25

a pond-side blue flag

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June 19 - RIP Roxy

gone, my best dog ever

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June 19 - Snapping Turtle laying

another eggs clutch is added to our yard

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June 18 - Pictures-A-Week 19

May 6-12

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June16 - Luzia

Cirque du Soleil in DC on Memorial Day weekend

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May 26 - Addition to Uncle Ric’s Irresponsible Reading list

Peter Makuck’s Costly Habits

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May 25 - Friday Flower 21

’tis the season for the bays

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May 22 - Pictures-A-Week 18

April 29-May 5

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May 18 - Tangier Marsh

Chesapeake Bay wetland

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May 18 - Friday Flower 20

from a roadside

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May 16 - Poorman’s Flea market

shopping in Pactolus a couple of weeks ago

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May 16 - Pictures-A-Week 17

stayed close to home April 22-28

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May 12 - Cooper Greer

country baritone performing in Washington, NC

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May 12 - Copperhead

live snake in the middle of the road

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May 11 - Friday Flower 19

bristle thistle

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May 10 - Bill Lyerly at Market Street Pub

finished my gallery from Bill’s February appearance in Washington

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May 9 - Pictures-A-Week 16

April 15-21

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May 4 - Friday Flower 18

St Peters Episcopal Church yard

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May 4 - MW & Company

from Rock the Pamlico fundraiser

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May 1 - Pictures-A-Week 15

getting around eastern North Carolina

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April 27 - Fresh signs for gallery

the first 12 are new, keep going to see all of the 2018 additions

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April 26 - Pictures-A-Week 14

hockey and animals and trains

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April 22 - Rock the Pamlico

A Washington fundraiser for Arc

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April 20 - Friday Flower 16

choke cherry

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April 19 - Maryland in March

Savage Mills, airliners, and passing the Capitol

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April 16 - Pictures-A-Week 13

waxwings and skies and a couple of trains

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April 14 - Gates County and back again

a road trip home with Mom

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April 13 - Friday Flower 15

pink dogwood

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April 10 - Roanoke River Light

the restored lighthouse in Edenton, NC

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April 7 - Pictures-A-Week 11

DC, home, and a little more

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April 6 - Friday Flower 14

columbine

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April 4 - Hotel Louise

some recent photos from this historic building

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April 1 - Liberty wades ashore

an old April Fool

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April 1 - Air & Space Museum

a larger gallery from the Smithsonian

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April 1 - Pictures-A-Week 10

trains and a few other things

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March 31 - Good Friday sunset

yesterday’s Tranters Creek sunset

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March 29 - Friday Flower 13

Calla Lily

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March 28 - Farm Shed

Uncle Herman’s farm in Gates County NC

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March 24 - Pictures-A-Week 09

trains and the river and the fleamarket

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March 23 - Friday Flower 12

wisteria with a bee

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March 23 - Moss’s Mill

Little Washington’s riverfront grist mill

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March 22 - Pictures-A-Week 08

birds, turtles, trains, music , and more

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March 16 - Friday Flower 11

Star of Bethlehem

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March 14 - Bill Lyerly Band

February 10, Sunnyside Oyster Bar

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March 10 - Pictures-A-Week 07

birds and ruins and music and collards

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March p - Friday Flower 10

snowbells

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March 4 - Hyde trek

just poking around one of my favorite areas

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March 2 - Pamlico plug pulled

the river blew out today

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March 2 - Friday Flower 09

tulip tree or Magnolia Jane

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March 1 - Pictures-A-Week 06

birds, skies, and more from Hyde and Beaufort Counties

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February 27 - Bill Lyerly at Market Street Pub

Bill and Shelby Wall did power duo duty Friday night

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February 26 - Red-bellied woodpecker

a visitor to our suet feeder

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February 23 - Friday Flower 08

on of Kitty’s holiday bulbs

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February 22 - Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park

Wilson park featuring fun art

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February 20 - Pictures-A-Week 05

grandchild warning! plus a few other pics from Maryland

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February 18 - Bill Lyerly & Clyde Mattocks

Super Grit founders reunion in Nashville NC

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February 17 - Tundra Swans

on Pungo Lake wetlands

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February 17 - Masonic Temple

Egyptian Revival Rocky Mount temple

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February 14 - Deconstruction Art

abstracts found in Williamston razing

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February 12 - Pictures-A-Week 04

dogs and urban scenes and airplanes…

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February 9 - Friday Flower 06

a red amaryllis

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February 7 - Jet Trails

crossing the Moon

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February 6 - More Signs

the first 12 are new additions

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February 6 - Skateboarder

grabbing hills where you can find them

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February 6 - Pictures-A-Week 03

birds and trains and the Moon and snow and Christmas lights

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February 2 - Friday Flower 05

polka dot plant

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January 31 - Pictures-A-Week 02

some things I saw January 7-13

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January 27 - Pictures-A-Week 01

launching my 15th annual PAW exercise

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January 26 - Hound horn

a city dog speaks up for his master

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January 26 - Friday Flower 04

a dried beauty from a sandy hill

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January 22 - Reggie Workman

Turnage Theater  performance at GuitarFest January 13

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January 19 - Friday Flower 03

one of Kitty’s aloes steps up to volunteer

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January 18 - Snowy pier

pier this morning after two straight Wednesday night snows

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January 17 - Signs Gallery additions

you may know I LOVE signs and collect photos of them

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January 17 - Jonathan Bowling’s zoo

Greenville sculptor populates town

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January 16 - Icy Day #6

what I did with my snow days - part 6

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January 14 - Belhaven Holiday Toy Trains

a fun show of toy trains in City Hall

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January 14 - Icy Day #5

what I did with my snow days - part 5

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January 13 - Night Fog on Tranters Creek

a dark, foggy creek just after sunset

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January 12 - Friday Flower 02

I never knew about frost flowers

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January 11 - Goddard Space Flight Center

a recent visit to a space museum

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January 10 - Icy Day #4

what I did with my snow days - part 4

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January 9 - Icy Day #3

what I did with my snow days - part 3

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January 8 - Icy Day #2

what I did with my snow days - part 2

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January 7 - Icy Day #1

what I did with my snow days

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January 6 - Swamp Ice

jewels in the swamp

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January 6 - Tranters Creek frozen

for the second straight day, Tranters Creek is frozen across

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January 5 - Friday Flower

a faded hydrangea topped with a cap of snow

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January 4 - Psylo Joe

more than 100 photos of this great jam band from Greenville