Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
A funny thing happened when I took my 2010 Traverse in for the 90K mile servicing at 95K miles...meet anirnisiaq qavvaq which in Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit) literally means angel of the blue ice. Qavvaq ice is very old ice (usually at least three years old or more) which is clear or if it has any color at all tends to be close to this shade of blue. The name was easy to…
This set is the result of climbing Mount Washington near the carpool lane at school and getting a great vantage point to shoot downtown Raleigh!
My sister entered these photos from NYC into the Cumberland County Fair and apparently they impressed the judges enough to win. To say it was a surprise is a grand understatement!
There were a few minutes to kill before making my way round the Conga Line to the boarding area, there was a camera in the Traverse, and a nice hill with a beautiful vantage point for taking pictures of the buildings downtown. I'm so there...
Sometimes you get lucky when you hang out on the balcony at the General Aviation terminal that overlooks the GA ramp. In this case, I managed to catch the UNC Tar Heels boarding their charter flight to San Antonio for the Final Four! Sadly, they would fall short of the title but still that Delta MD-83 is a nice ride! :)
Unfortunately, this one will be quite bittersweet as her husband of twenty-eight years lost his battle with cancer early this afternoon in Fayetteville at Highsmith-Rainey Memorial Hospital. Lee was a veteran registered nurse at Cape Fear Valley Medical Centre's Emergency Department and in his 53 years, he touched many lives along the way. When we'd go out and about running errands in Fayetteville, it was the very rare exception that we didn't meet someone he…
The Hurricanes downed the Edmonton Oilers 3-1 in the decisive Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals to bring Lord Stanley's mug home to Raleigh. That's two Cups in a row for the much-maligned Southeast Division!
