Showing posts with label Random Pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random Pictures. Show all posts

Friday, March 9, 2012

Random Scenes



Today I feel like playing an association game. We'll connect all of these otherwise disparate photos by a common word or element.  

Fasten your seat belts, the train is getting ready to leave the station. Please remain seated until the ride has come to a complete stop at which time you may exit to your left.  Do not stampede on your way out; you could injure others trying to escape exit ahead of you.

(Unrelated side note: I used to work at Busch Gardens and had to give a similar spiel a few hundred times one summer. If anyone's ever looking for book or reality TV fodder, work at a crowded amusement park in the jungle-like humidity of an August summer in Williamsburg. You simply won't believe what people do on vacation, nor the clothes they wear or don't wear, nor the stuff they find to complain about, nor how many of those complainers seem to be from the North. No offense to anyone from the North, it's just an isolated observation made by a silly woman who wears a crab hat for entertainment.  Let's return from this entirely unnecessary tangent to our little association game, already in progress.)


The wooden skiff above sits on dry ground in a yard down Shadow.









That weathered and worn skiff  is made of wood, just like this cute little white farmhouse with a tin roof in Redart.









This mountain of oyster shells, outside of the old ice plant at Milford Haven, is white like that house.









Milford Haven is home to the Coast Guard station and the Gwynn's Island Bridge.







This rainbow is like a bridge from Earth to sky.


The last photo was sent to me by Mathews resident Bill Crowe, who had the privilege of seeing this rainbow from his back yard.
Thanks, Bill!

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Life is like an amusement park here in Mathews.

We have to invent our own fun and games here in rural Mathews.

Thanks for playing along.
  
Have a fantastic weekend.


Saturday, January 1, 2011

Pictures, Part Two

Workboat on Davis Creek, July 4, 2010

Welcome to Part Two of pictures from 2010 that never made it on to the blog.  Of the thousands and thousands of photos I take, only a very small percentage are shared here.

Here are scenes from July through December of this year.  There's no rhyme or reason or theme to them, just as there's no real rhyme or reason or theme to this blog.

Life in Mathews is like a box of chocolates.  Sometimes it's sweet, most of the time sometimes it's nutty, and mostly you swear you're never eating chocolate again you never know what you're gonna get.



The edge of our boat house, August 2010




Chesapeake Bay Father cutting the daffodil field, September 2010. He turns 70 in a few weeks.



House near Haven Beach. October 2010


Williams Wharf Road, November 2010


Westview Inn, December 2010

One brief word about Westview Inn: Come Heres will likely not know about Westview and Eastview Inn, but they surely have passed by them a million times. Westview is just before Lynne's Restaurant on the left if you're coming from the Court House. Eastview is just past Ward's Corner (the intersection with Rte. 14) on the left. Both of these places were quite popular back in the day and most people my age and older have more than a few stories to share about the lively cast of characters who frequented these establishments.  (One such legend was named Watergate.)


Currently there is a For Sale sign in front of Westview, and I am trying to convince my good friend to purchase it and open up a place to sell his soon-to-be world famous chicken wings, which are slow cooked over charcoal. Don't you think Westview Wings has a certain wing ring to it?


Speaking of daydreams, potential opportunities, and new endeavors, I hope your New Year is full of nothing but good wings things. Here's to a clean slate and better days ahead.


Happy New Year

Friday, December 31, 2010

Pictures, Part One

Queens Creek, Miller's Cove, January 2010.  I'd name this one "Uh Oh."

Well, the calendar says it's New Year's Eve, even if some of us still wonder what happened to Thanksgiving.

Did we have Thanksgiving? Was it good?

Anyway, it's that time of year to reflect on the past and make well-intended promises of self improvement for the coming week year.

Instead of writing about all that, though, I decided to review photos from the year and post ones that never made it on to the blog, for obvious various reasons.

Enjoy!

Sea Gull, February 2010



Mathews Court Green, March 2010.  We sold daffodils here at the Farmers Market.



Abandoned House, April 2010 



Southwind Pizza, May 2010.  Although I didn't use this on the blog, I did submit it as part of my book proposal and paired it with an old photo taken from the exact same angle.  Speaking of the book, I have a lot of work to do in 2011.  


Mimosa Tree, June 2010.  

I'll post more exciting random, unrelated photos covering July - December tomorrow.

Whatever you're doing this evening, enjoy.


p.s. Out of curiosity, what will you be doing this evening? 
My plans involve a whole lot of Nothing sprinkled with a heavy dose of Lollygagging.