Totally amateur phone camera pics thread.

[catcauphonic]

Restrooms a local eatery >

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

"All four were taken at or during gigs too." < please elaborate. Did those trees enjoy the show?

1.) A private party on a boat dock at Smith Mountain Lake. This was one of the worst gigs of my entire career... and the day after it was over, I gave notice I was quitting that band. (neither the scenery or the obscenely fat paycheck was enough to offset the white-knuckled anger I had to deal with weekly with those guys...) But that was one heluva view.

2.) The guys I'm gigging with regularly now had hired me as a sub for their bass player... this was a wedding and reception at Trump Winery (yeah, same guy...) near Charlottesville, Va. A beautiful piece of property, and a fine venue for just such an event.

3 & 4.) My other regular band had a standing gig every January in N. Myrtle Beach, playing for this corporate weekend training retreat. We played a reception as employees arrived on Friday evening, then for a few minutes in between training sessions on Saturday, culminating on Saturday night for a concert at the House of Blues, but these two pictures were taken on Sunday morning at Cherry Grove Beach just outside the hotel they put us up in.

I miss that gig... January is a fine time to not be in the mountains of Southwest Virginia.

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

Restrooms a local eatery >

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That's great!

There's this one place we play that has two restrooms, but the signs say "We don't care which, just wash your hands!"

 

[the harp unstrung]

We were driving Hard...trying to make it from Ft. Collins, CO to KC with just one stop...when my Bride looks down and exclaims “We’re Flatlining!”

Kansas..the Other State That Will Not End!

Hays State College is Home to a World Class earth science museum! It’s called the Sturnberg Museum Of Natural History.
What a freakin’ Gem!
I’d go again tomorrow!

...found some good, locally brewed beer in Ellis...

 

[catcauphonic]

A little excitement at the rehearsal space today when the fire alarm went off (falsely) and we had to vacate the premises. I did get a good shot from the rooftop looking downtown >

 

[petrus61]

 

[Stewie26]

My new hanger neighbor just recently acquired a WWII P51 Mustang. He rolled it out today to take it for a short flight. The bare aluminum is so finely polished, it looks like a mirror. When he started the twelve cylinder Rolls Royce Merlin engine up, it's low throaty sound is like music to your ears. Flying a P51 is on my bucket list but I don't know him well enough to invite myself for a ride......yet?

EDIT: After watching him fly this thing, and with some of the abrupt maneuvers he made, I should take a barf bag with me if I ever get to fly with him.

 

[Helix]

My new hanger neighbor just recently acquired a WWII P51 Mustang. He rolled it out today to take it for a short flight. The bare aluminum is so finely polished, it looks like a mirror. When he started the twelve cylinder Rolls Royce Merlin engine up, it's low throaty sound is like music to your ears. Flying a P51 is on my bucket list but I don't know him well enough to invite myself for a ride......yet?

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That is awesome!!

 

[Helix]

Here's a couple of pics from my bike ride over the weekend

They are dredging part of the bay and this excavator (that also floats) decided to make this little island in the bay it's parking spot

And a pic of the docks

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

Sunrise this morning. I missed the best colors while still driving, and snapped this one on the way from the car to the building. Still pretty decent for a Monday morning.

 

[two fingers]

The Fingers girls holding our kayaks together for a pic while paddling around tiny Bath, NC (the oldest town in NC and Blackbeard the Pirate's home port).

 

[catcauphonic]

The Fingers girls holding our kayaks together for a pic while paddling around tiny Bath, NC (the oldest town in NC and Blackbeard the Pirate's home port).
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I heard that BlackBeard tale the one time I was on Hatteras daytripping to Ocracoke. He used to plunder nearby in the Atlantic, and then his ship would duck into Pamlico Sound.

 

[catcauphonic]

Some scenes from around Moonrise Manor this weekend >

There was 3eagles flying over our yard around noon. If you look hard enough you can see one thru the tree here >

 

[two fingers]

I heard that BlackBeard tale the one time I was on Hatteras daytripping to Ocracoke. He used to plunder nearby in the Atlantic, and then his ship would duck into Pamlico Sound.

The Outer Banks of NC was a known pirate hangout. Those barrier islands made for lots of places to hide. Lots of crafty, inventive, outlaws around. Nags Head (just North of Hatteras) was named for a trick used to beach ships so they could be plundered. The outlaws would hang a lantern around the neck of a horse ("nag") and walk it back and forth on the beach. Thinking it was a lighthouse, navigators would steer ships aground where they were then boarded and plundered.

Ocracoke is simply one of the most chill places on Earth. I used to walk on to the ferry at Swan Quarter to get there (for a dollar) and hike through the village to play shows at Howard's Pub and a few other local places. Then I would find places to stay and come home when it was time to head off for the next weekend of gigs. I met my craziest ex-girlfriend there. That Summer I pretty much lived on the island with her. I would come back to the mainland on Thursday morning for that weekend of shows and head back over Sunday morning. She worked at Howard's. I would wake up at the crack of noon, head over there for a free lunch, and then take her Jeep out to the beach. I would go weeks at a time wearing shoes only when I was at a gig. Good times.....

I keep telling @slobake he needs to sell his house for a zillion dollars and move out here. Nobody would steal his bike out here.....other than to make a beer run and then bring it back.

 

[FilterFunk]

A couple of dandelions doing what dandelions do - making a home wherever the wind happens to take their seeds:

 

[Oddly]

A bit of dramatic lighting supplied by Mother Nature...

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

@catcauphonic - that candle pic is a winner...

@two fingers - we'll have to talk OBX sometime... though I was born Greensboro, and raised in Raleigh, I used to spend a lot of time on the coast. One of my very best friends, (a brother really) had a 25-foot Grady White he kept down there. Many a Friday night we played for gas money on the wharf at Morehead, then mackerel fished all day Saturday. He dropped dead of a massive heart attack July 18th, 2015 at the age of 54. I miss that guy every day, especially the times we spent down there.

I didn't take that^ picture, but I was there. We were recording some tracks at a studio in Bristol, TN. I was in the other booth, with my bass.

 

[catcauphonic]

Light rail trains taking a rest in Sodo. Clink stadium is in the background >

 

[catcauphonic]

Lava Lounge does not qualify as a dive bar. In addition to there being plenty of toilet paper, look at the shine on that sink & throne!

 

[elgecko]

Not a great pic but the dark, horizontal feature above the bike/bush is Catalina Island some 55 miles distant.