Robust McManlyPants on Average Display

Last night we got a little snow and a lot of sleet and when I couldn’t sleep I had to go out in it and take pictures. At one point I freaking huge black Mercedes made its way up our street, both unsteadily and quickly, shocking me into realizing that some people really will drive out in weather like this to get their drink on.

Around 3:00am a truck drove through and then back again, presumably dropping someone off. When they saw me they stopped and stared and even talked to one another about me before moving on. I said to The Boyf that I found this perfectly understandable since it’s not likely that someone standing in the middle of the street, in the middle of the night, wrapped up like a Russian soldier and taking photos during a snow storm was high on their list of expectations.

Pictures I took at night and pictures I took when we went for a walk this afternoon are both up in my gallery installation.

Pictures taken on 12 May, 2009, from the board room of the old CCB/Suntrust building in downtown Durham. The Boyf bought us tickets to a Durham Arts Council fundraiser held as the last public event in the board room before Greenfire starts to turn it into a boutique hotel downtown. I debated taking my real camera and settled on the iPhone so some are of highly questionable quality.

Today is Commencement at UNC. Yesterday I had to run through Chapel Hill on a couple of errands and stopped at the Hall to take some pictures of the extremely enthusiastic rose bushes that run the length of the wooden fence donated by Bro. Hop Swift in the ’90s. I walk past them every morning on my way to work and they are much more stunning in person.

I’ve put up a gallery of pictures from our trip to DC at the beginning of April for the Cherry Blossom Festival. In summary, Kramerbooks & Afterwords continues to be the go-to place for awesome and Rep. David Price’s office gave us a very fun tour of the US Capitol. We had some great food, great times and a very lovely drive through rural Virginia capped off by a stay at our favorite Richmond bed & breakfast, the Museum District B&B. Pictures from our trip are divided into several galleries:

• The US Capitol
• the African-American Civil War Memorial
• the Japanese Street Festival held on Pennsylvania Avenue
• a bunch of pictures as we walked past the White House, Washington Monument and Tidal Basin
• the Washington Monument, WWII Memorial and Lincoln Memorial at night, something I’d photographed before but this was with a new camera and a tripod and I just love visiting these at night anyway

If all goes well, we or at least I will be back in July sometime for the welcome home party of some friends’ who’ve been living overseas for a couple of years. Woot!