A Little Something-Something

I made for Naima

You’ve seen me on the Pink Pig….

In reality, we tried this a couple different ways…me riding the pig in Seattle, me screaming and cursing at traffic, me climbing out of the trunk like I just finally made it across the border, but in the end, this is the only one that came out well enough to share.

Mountain Pics

It’s no wonder why they call these areas The Smoky Mtns and The

Blue Ridge Mtns.

Smoke on the Water

When we arrived to this lake, it was getting dusk and had just finished raining. The effect on the water was incredible. This was our 2nd night camp spot. We dined, slept, and rose to

this view. If you look closely in the upper pic, the brown rocks

at the bottom of the pic are actually submerged rocks…the

water is that clear!

More lake pics

More views of the same lake. The lower shows the beautiful color of the water and also the color tainting process once the dam

opens the floodgates. Eventually the entire river is this color until the particles

settle again and back to original color. To take these 2

shots, I had climbed down sets of loose rock thru the woods

and then climbed up onto old, dilapidated bridge road

platforms. It wasn’t being up there that was scary as much

as being caught up there.

Misc River Pics

Just some different pics of different rivers. The

lower pic shows a pool that is about 10

feet deep and COLD!!

Misc Pics

Joe’s dog, Gertie, 17 years old!!! 2nd pic just shows where we were at that time…

adjacent to the Great Smoky Mtns Nat’l

Park.

Misc Pics 2

Upper pic is us driving down the one of the 9 kajillion mountain roads we explored

and Joe taking a piss. Note my understanding expression as he pees 6 inches from me. Actually took this one myself guesstimating focus, etc. (maybe theres hope yet!) 2nd is me standing on road girders overlooking Smoky Mtns. Sorry, that’s all I had to

work with at the time. If there was a pig present, I would have certainly

mounted it!!! (holy crap, bad choice of words, considering the area I’m in.) but

you get the point. Excuse the pun.

Double joke…who gets that??

Misc Pics 3While admitting that I thought the

sun position was ruining this shot, it actually improved it. The upper is one of many

dams in this area. It reminds me of something out of the first ‘Batman’ movie or maybe out of WWII Germany. Anyway, it was much larger than the pics show and had almost an eerie

ambiance to it. 2nd pic is camping breakfast of

champions….Blueberry pancakes with fresh mashed bananas mixed in, scrambled eggs, a power bar, a nectarine

or apple and homegrown tomato slices.

Misc Pics 4

A plethora of kayaks….. everywhere you turned! This

was the place to be if you were a kayaker!! Countless numbers

of boaters flowed in here, boaters of every imaginable genre…the expected dread-locked college students, the

seasoned hippie paddlers like Joe & Steve, the aged doctors,

lawyers and X-Genners with their manicured pony-tails and aging, over surgicaled trophy

wives, and everybody inbetween.

Talulla Gorge

A 900 foot drop gorge. A fantastic example of the canyons that exist

in this area of the world. In the upper pic, you can see

some of the rapids this gorge is famous

for.

Georgia Drought

Pics of the horrendous Georgia drought that

the southeast has been suffering. Notice how deep these lakes used to be and WHY they utilize floating

docks.

Country Farms

Abandoned farm houses were

EVERYWHERE. But only few were

photogenic. These qualified, but seems

that I ran into powerlines everytime

I ran around….a NIGHTMARE!!

Apple Orchards

Apple orchards in Longcreek, S.C.

They were small and not ready yet.

Fruit Thievery

Me….stealing apples from the orchard! I plucked and

crammed them in the bend of my shirt and hauled ass out of

there, dropping them as I laughed and ran away, all the

while waiting to hear some country yelling and shotgun blasts going off! Turns out,

stupid apples were pretty small and not yet ripe. After the

disappointing tasting session, they got hurled out the van

window over mountain cliffs.

Misc Pics

The top pic is one of my many, many photographic

experiments. I think it really needs

something in the center. The lower pic

is me on KP duty using sand and gravel

to wash dishes.

More Pics

Why would I take a pic of a grasshopper sucking soap, you wonder?

Maybe have something to do with the nostalgic

Pabst Blue Ribbon in the background?

Lower….lakeside music making. I played

percussion using sawed off bamboo sections of varied diameters like a

tropical Xylophone.

More Pics

One of the many back roads we explored

continuously.

Looking down a low water level river.

More Pics

The top pic is Joe’s garage. To see here…3 boats he has made/making, and the Union Jack on the wall. Remind me to tell

you about that flag.

A natural hole, you can climb down and then thru

it to the whitewater…a playground!