No biscuit!
Produce
This was taken at Tomato Fest in Kingsport on September 11. A somewhat larger version of this (no kidding!) will be in a photo show that Lee Stone, Lynn Govette and I are having at the Kingsport Renaissance Center in September and early October.
Mom’s button box
This thing has to be a half-century old now. Mom always had to have a good supply of buttons, since she sewed a lot.
Rapidayton Flite-Fuel
Between Gate City and Nickelsville, in Southwest Virginia, we ran across an old abandoned country store with several gas pumps displayed outside. This one’s a gem. The Rapidayton Flite-Fuel pump. Price per gallon: a little over 35 cents. My kinda pump!
Looking out of the tunnel
There’s a nameless tunnel in Whitesburg KY. It was once used by the L&N before the line went out of use in the late 80s or so. The tunnel’s not very long, maybe 100′ or so, and features a creek running through it. This is looking out the eastern face of the tunnel.
Rock Candy
Taken on a hot summer day. I had to shoot quickly, since the M&Ms were beginning to melt. Well, as you know, M&Ms, because of their candy shell, don’t actually melt in your hand, but if I’d tried to pick one of these up, it would probably have ruptured the shell and the chocolate would have escaped. I just left them. Odd, the squirrels were unusually active for several days after that.
Barns in the morning sun
This is actually just off a busy highway in Weber City VA. The morning sun made the shot.
FinePix F200EXR, 1/125 at f11. ISO 200
Mastodon, sort of
The people of Saltville VA do love them some mastodon. This rather original representation of the long extinct (12,000 years, give or take) mammal was apparently used in parades and, since it’s been left out in the open, it’s gradually getting a bit on the shaggy side (to paraphrase a country song, “I like my mastodons a little on the shaggy side.”).
Snow Trees
I took this on Bays Mountain just after a wet snow had blown into the area.
Florist Shop – Christmas
This greenhouse is no longer in existence. Many years ago, I was out walking on a snowy evening and saw these Poinsettias through a fogged window.
All Eggs Come Choice
This is a window in an old, closed shop in East Jenkins KY. The sign is choice, just like the eggs.
Melon
There is was. I didn’t pose it, just removed the plastic bag it had been set on.
About
I’ve taken a lot of pictures. Both of my brothers were, at one time, newspaper photographers. I had a camera that I was actively using (when I could afford film and processing) when I was 12 years old. I was a newspaper photographer for a brief time, too and was a camera repairman for about a decade, before the cameras became the digital delights that there are now. I love ’em, but I’m strictly a compact camera guy. I have four or so, and I possess an Olympus with a 2.0 lens and it would have scared the holy crap out of me ten years ago. I know somewhere in the manual it tells me how I can use it to communicate with aliens…
These are some of my pix. I claim copyright on all of these. I can’t imagine why, but it you should happen to copy them to another site, gimme credit, por favor.
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