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Albemarle Avenue

Man with Guitar and Horse in Window - Albemarle Avenue, Greenville, NC.

Blustery

An old pic but I thought appropriate for all the rain my neck of the woods is getting now.

The theater

Self portrait with iPhone in front of the old White's Theater, on my way to a photo shoot.

Perseids a washout

Here's a snap from the Bradford Creek Soccer Complex as the Carolina Skies Astronomy Club gives a presentation during tonight's StarGaze and Perseid Meteor Shower viewing.   As you can see, the clouds rolled in. Then a huge storm pounded the area in the middle of the talk with frequent lightning strikes.   Everybody scrambled for their cars.  So, no Perseids to be seen tonight, I'm afraid.  Of course, the skies might clear up later.   We will see... The show will still be going on all night.

Burley tobacco

I shot a story last week about a family in Stokes, NC that farms together during the summer and these are two of the photos that I liked out of the batch.  The story was interesting because this particular family was growing burley tobacco - a practice  that is rare in North Carolina but a few farmers are starting to pick it up.   I grew up in Kentucky, where burley is king, and everything seemed very familiar to me as I shot away in the field, that day.  This family, the Warrens,  didn't have big farm equipment.  They got out there in the field and performed hard labor.  As a kid,  I managed to work in the fields myself for a measly week, one hot summer.  I helped a friend and his dad cut, spear, and hang their crop in a barn in Whitesville, Ky.  This assignment brought back many memories of Kentucky and the smell of the burley tobacco field in the roasting Sun.