Category Archives: Uncle Bob’s Pix
Masonic Doors
These are the right side front doors of the Kyle Lodge 422 in Whitesburg TN. The building once housed a successor to the old Bent Creek Baptist Church, established in 1785 a mile or so away on the Old Stage Road.
Greeneville Door
I don’t know why I like old doors. But I do. This one’s in Greeneville TN.
Old bridge
This old bridge, overgrown and unsteady, is on an unknown, unused road paralleling US-23 at 36.92224, -82.689321, between Appalachia and Norton VA. It was built well, with an asphalt bed and solid concrete abutments.
Girl with tail
This lady was an attendee at a Halloween party we had back in the 80s.
Store window, East Jenkins KY
Feedback tells me this was an Army surplus store. Interesting sign, too.
Owl Sits in for the King
This was done back when I was playing chess a little and finding out again and again how little I could play chess. It was also a part of my interest in perspective and a certain fondness I had for putting the owl in unusual circumstances.
Eureka Roller Mills
This was in Telford. I took the reference picture sometime in the late 70s. The original drawing is much larger (it had a left vanishing point approximately 9′ from the drawing itself). I sold it a decade or so ago. Later, in 2004, I decided to do another take on it.
Old Virgnia-Carolina Railroad trestle
You’ll see pictures of this stately old trestle all over the web, but here’s the story. It’s part of the Creeper Trail now and spans the confluence of the Middle Fork and the South Forks of the Holston River (a guy named Holstein was the first non-Native American to come paddling down this watery avenue…probably a million Native Americans paddled down it before he got here, so where are their names? And who now knows those names?). Anyway, the Creeper Railroad was built by the Virginia-Carolina Railroad, reaching Damascus from Abingdon (after a long, tortuous time a-building) in 1900. Many a train thundered over this trestle, until the line fell into disrepair and was abandoned. Some people with amazing vision created the Creeper Trail, an outstanding stretch of rails-to-trails. It’s more fun than that hellish (for me) 12-mile Guest River Gorge trail on the railbed of the former Interstate Railroad (someone once asked me if I were a railfan, or “foamer” as they’re sometimes known, and I said, “No, I’m into trackage.” ), but just as scenic. This trestle is so pleasant on a warm summer day.
Greenhouse, Christmas
This Backer’s Florists, which used to be located at the corner of Watauga and Charlemont Streets. The location is a parking lot for a funeral home now. It had snowed that night and I was out walking in it, with my camera, and I saw this view. It’s been worked on a fair bit, since the original was an analog image.
Teddy by the tracks
I saw this in the former Miller Yard in Virginia. I don’t know what it means. It’s a little teddy bear tied to hollow tube that holds a tool the train guys use for something (I really know a lot about whatever it is I’m writing about….really). It’s all covered in coal dust.
Mask
You just never know what you’ll see if you look up while walking in downtown Greeneville:
Halloween’s over.
Sometimes, when Halloween’s over, it’s yolo. Took this picture in Derby VA on November 4.
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