When writing this blog, I am usually sitting at the computer desk in my living room, which is right next to a window overlooking my back yard and Ballard’s Pond. Not long ago, I glanced out this window to find that this little lady had … Continue reading Greetings from Reproduction Junction
Do you have a room in your house that you never go into? And/or one where you haven’t opened the curtains / blinds in quite some time. I have the latter type. It’s the dog’s room. I keep the curtains closed in there in hopes that he’ll see fewer people / things outside to bark about. Well, I went into this room the other morning, opened the curtain, and was faced with this:
Yup. A vine that is trying to completely cover a bush just outside the window has actually found its way INTO THE HOUSE. It managed to squeeze in through a tiny gap where the two window frames come together (when the window is closed). What are the odds? Seriously, what are they? Now that I know the outcome, I might use the Way-the-Hell-Back Machine to go to Vegas and place a bet on it. Come to think of it, why am I not already using my Way-the-Hell-Back Machine for sports betting? I need to get my priorities straight.
I have a pond in my backyard. I also have several trees in my backyard. Not surprisingly (since I live in North Carolina), this means my property is home to both tree frogs and pond frogs. But during my first spring at this house, when the frogs started their nightly hollering, I noticed some of the sounds coming from the pond didn’t seem…natural. In addition to the low-pitched croaks of the pond frogs and the high-pitched peeps of the tree frogs there came a most unusual sound. A sound unlike anything I’ve heard anywhere, except maybe in 1950’s science fiction movies. I concluded that my pond had been invaded by alien frogs. I have waited over three years for the opportunity to make First Contact with these beings from another world. In that time, I have seen a few tree frogs, and many pond frogs – but no aliens. Finally, last week, one of the alien frogs made an appearance on my patio furniture. Behold…the first known photos of a frog from another planet…
Since I already had my camera out, and he was just a few feet away, I also grabbed a gratuitous shot of Bear lazin’ in the shade…
The frog and I are still working on finding a translator, so we can begin a knowledge transfer between our two great cultures.
At some point between my Mississippi trip and the Nevada one, I decided not to move forward with planning my summer trip(s) until I had accomplished several things. I included getting LASIK on that list o’ several things. But other things on the list took … Continue reading Lack o’ Summer Plans
Some day, I may learn to schedule trips in advance and actually stick with my travel plans. Some day.
Maybe.
I was planning to head out to the North Carolina coast some time in March, but now, for a number of reasons (that number being 2) I have decided to push that trip back to least next year. This opens up a spot on my travel schedule to go somewhere else this spring (could be in March, maybe April, possibly even May). I’m thinking I’ll either fly to Nevada or take a road trip to Georgia. Right now, I’m leaning toward Nevada. Literally: as I type this, I am leaning to my left, which is towards the west.
If I do go to Nevada, I’ll likely spend three, MAYbe four days in Vegas, then drive to various attractions around the state (which would likely be a LOT of driving, ‘cuz it’s such a large state). This would include (hopefully) caves, ghost towns, historic/scenic railroads, and a state park or two. Eventually, I would make my way to Reno and fly home from there. But as usual, this is all theoretical until I actually step aboard an airplane. And now that I think about it…Tennessee is a good possibility, too. Maybe even Louisiana…
A coupla weeks before I left on my big Colorado / Wyoming trip, a frog sat itself down on the rim of Bear’s wading pool, demanding that I take its picture. I shot the former tadpole from a few angles; I think these came out … Continue reading A Coupla Months Ago
ThrowBack Thursday (TBT), as you have come to know it here on Voyages With Parkinson’s, was originally created as a way to force myself to catch up on what had become a nine-year backlog of photos. I am now caught up (or will be once … Continue reading Pics Taken Around the House (March 2021 – Jan. 2022)
When last we left our hero, he was emerging from the grounds of Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina. Next, he photographed a couple of the historic homes nearby: At this point, our hero resumed writing in the first person. The next day, I … Continue reading Coastal North Carolina, part two (March 2020)
When I stopped working, in January 2020, it was my intention to take a trip of at least one week, every other month. Obviously, COVID-19 interfered with that, but when I set off that Spring on my first trip to North Carolina’s coast, I had … Continue reading Coastal North Carolina, part one (March 2020)
I never know how to begin these hodgepodge posts. Let me try this approach: Let’s look at some photos, DAMMIT! Yeah. I think that works. We begin in June 2019. I was visiting Cherokee, NC again, and decided to go into the Great Smoky Mountains … Continue reading More Hodgepodge Than You Can Shake a Stick at (part two)
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