Slingerdoo

A beautiful wedding.

My cousin Dan married his long time girl friend last night. The venue was a shaded grove in the wine country of northern California.

Pac Man in the clouds

Sunday night Katie took me to Mt. Evans for a quiet evening together. Our goal was to overlook the Denver skyline, grab a few pics of stars and enjoy each others company.

Most of the 28 mile journey was pleasant and uneventful. The road got narrow and windy as we approached the summit. Once we passed the fee station things changed drastically. Our attention changed from watching for deer to trying to see the road! We had litterally driven into the clouds.

Katie was driving while I pressed my face against the windshield to try and see the road in front of us. Crawling along at an inch-worm pace, we strattled the solid yellow line as it led the way up. We were unable to see the edge of the road and any signs we saw didn't appear until they were about twenty feet from the car.

As we neared Summit Lake, our hearts skipped and raced as the solid yellow line gave way to a dotted line. As one line disappeared from view, it seemed like several seconds before the next line began to appear.

Katie kept the car crawling until we got to the lake area. The clouds finally broke leaving us in pitch black, but at least we could see more the ten feet in front of the car.

Since we thought we were above the clouds, we decided to press on to the top. Five hundred feet later we hit more clouds. Unable to see and quickly deteriorating road conditions, we decided to turn around. Only problem is how do you turn around on a mountain road that is pitch black, fogged in and you're unable to see the edges of the road?

Simple. I got out of the car and walked to each edge of the road to size up the area we had to work with. The only thing I ciould see was the glow of the headlights and taillights. While physically holding on to the front fender of the car, I directed Katie to turn hard left and I walked her forward about 8 steps. Then she cranked the wheel the other way while I moved to the back fender. This time I walked her back about 14 steps. We repeated the process until the car was turned around. I hopped back in the car and we inched our way back down the mountain.

When we got out of the nerve racking worst of it, we pulled out her camera and snapped a few pics. Check out her flickr stream for those.

Ahhhh. Relaxation.

The past weekend was a whirl wind of activity! Starting last Friday Katie, Lee & I drove to Raleigh, stayed up all night and at 4 am we met Ty and John for a trip to the Outer Banks. Our mission was to photograph wild horses on one of the barrier islands. Upon arrival at the ferry, we met up with Chris, his dad (I've forgotten his name) and Forest. After brief introductions, handshakes and pictures we boarded the ferry and set off for the island.

After we were dropped off the group split with some going along the beach and the rest of us heading inland. We hiked inland and few hundred yards and quickly spotted a herd of about six horses. The grass and cactus were tough, but manageable to hike through. As we approach Ty and I discussed how we would probably get to within 50 feet before they ran off. To our surprise, Lee walked right up to them and even managed to touch one. The horses were friendly, to a degree, and walked up to and around the group of photographers as if to say "look at me! take my picture!"

After several hours in the heat and a long walk along the beach we headed back to the hotel. The following day we drove to Wilmington and visited Greenfield Park. The park is a 150 acre lake where you can rent canoes to see alligators, turtles and other creatures.

Upon our return to Atlanta Monday morning, I departed to go camping at Lake Conasauga. With Shadow by my side we chilled out at the lake, did a little hiking and slept through more than one rain storm. I'm back now and ready to do the job search thing and choose a direction. (which direction I still don't know, but I'm ready to find out)

Skipping Town Again

Tonight is the APWBWGTTD meet-up at the Highlander, then I'm off to North Carolina for the weekend. I should have some great pictures and stories when I return.

Skipping town

I'm outta here! Off to Madison, WI to see Outside-the-Box. After completing her residency here in ATL, she got a sweet job somewhere in Madison, WI.  We have a great weekend planned of playing "What's in the box?" as we unpack all of her stuff.

If you've never been to Madison, it's a great place to visit. Check it out. If we get enough stuff done we may even go dance on the terrace.

Off to Savannah

Summer time. 4th of July. Friends.

The most important is Friends. A few friends are heading to Savannah later today and some will join us tomorrow. For many it's a chance to take pictures, walk around a historic town they've never visited, or simply get out of town. For me, I'm looking at it as getting to know my friends a little better, make new friends and enjoy the company.

My pictures may not turn out, I've been to Savannah before and I do need to get out of town, but most important I'm with friends.

I'll be back in time for the fireworks! Have a great 4th of July weekend!