These are, in chronological order, the best eight pictures that I took in 2006. Ida B. Annie Catches a Snowball Wakefield Throws a Knuckleball Saturn The Thoughtful Skeeballer Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Steps Sea Oats Common Chicory I didn’t take many decent photos after October, probably because I simply didn’t take many photos.
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Moon ring.
The nearly-full moon was surrounded by a ring this evening, an artifact of hexagonal ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds and a harbinger of bad weather to come.
Watercolor results.
Amber and I took a watercolor class for the past month, mostly because it’s precisely the opposite of the sort of thing that I’m inclined to do. This was the pinnacle of my work: I took a two-week songwriting class as a teenager. I learned that I have no business writing songs. I’ve learned the …
Annie doesn’t want to surf.
Ado Annie protests her surfing lessons. Avon, NC, August 19, 2004. She did eventually, surf…kind of.
Cichorium intybus.
Common chicory. Photographed today at Carter’s Mountain Orchard, Charlottesville.
Pea Island sea oats.
It clouded over and rained a bit on this, our final afternoon, which constituted both the first clouds and the first rain that we’d seen this week. Which was fine, because it provided an excuse to visit museums and other indoor endeavors, mostly up around Kitty Hawk. Along the way we stopped at the Pea …
Cape Hatteras flotsam.
We visited the tip of Cape Hatteras this afternoon, where a great spit of sand splits the sound from the Atlantic. Waves come in from either side at the terminus, colliding at 45° angles every few seconds. Dozens of trucks were lined up at the surf’s edge, their fishermen trying to coax dinner from the …
Cape Hatteras lighthouse exterior.
An exterior shot of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse, complementing yesterday’s interior photo.
Cape Hatteras lighthouse.
We visited the Cape Hatteras lighthouse today, which involved a lengthy walk up to the top. It was disappointing to discover that the National Park Service seems to be steamrolling through the removal of the lighthouse’s light pedestal — on which the great light is perched — to go on permanent “loan” to a private …
Ado Annie takes a swim.
I get a lot of requests for pictures of Annie. This is her taking a swim in the pool here at our beach house. The weather has been perfect.