Good morning to all and Happy Mother’s day to the wonderful mothers out there. The mothers in our society don’t get the gratitude we should all be paying for their tireless efforts in leading the transition from birth to adulthood. It’s a difficult, herculean task, yet they handle it with aplomb and grace, mostly…. 🙂 Typically there would be a plethora of happy mother’s day photo’s to accompany this post…. Typically…. If I had any….. H’mmm, major fail there dude. MAJOR FAIL….. 🙁 This is rather embarrassing. The image catalog has photos of virtually EVERY event in our lives, except Mother Day. Wow, Simply wow. So, today I’ll make a…
Portobello Road
Way back, when I was in college, the last summer before graduation, I decided to do a study abroad session courtesy of the UNO Innsbruck International Summer School. This is a 7 week summer school program in Innsbruck, Austria. I was in need of 2 courses of “fine arts” to complete my engineering degree, and this seemed like a great way to get that done. As part of the study program, they were offering a 3 week tour starting in London, heading down through Paris, across through Pisa and finally winding up in Innsbruck. So the summer began with a plane ride to London with the 40 or so other…
Chris’ Excellent European Adventure
On March 12, I was fly out of Washington Dulles airport (IAD) headed for London Heathrow (LHR) the next day. I was traveling to attend Oceanology, which I had done every other year since 2010. Except for 2020. We all knew what happened then…. This part of the trip was a company sponsored professional development plan. Oceanology is the leading conference in underwater technology, and I’ve been in the underwater business for virtually my entire professional career. It’s a good conference with the latest and greatest ongoings in the industry. As part of this “boondoggle”, I decided that while I was in the “neighborhood”, I would travel to Greece and…
Final Photographic Post for 2021
This is not a New Year “summary” as we did that back a couple of months ago…. On New Years Day actually. This is the last set of pictures from the archive of 2021. Meghan and Jourdan came to the house on New Years Eve, and we decided to walk into old town Fairfax for a bite of lunch. So the trusty Fuji X100f came along for the ride (walk). We strolled up Chain Bridge and then turned on Main St. headed North-ish. The Havabite Eatery was right there, so we stopped in for a bite. Can’t give strong recommendations. Basically just frozen food prepared okay. Anyway, after lunch we…
The Historic Ai Church
We’re back to Greensboro today. As you have probably surmised, I’ve been spending some quality time there over the last 6 months or so. There are some interesting historical tidbit’s in the areas to be discovered. We talked about the Old Mill of Guilford a while back. Along the same road, and not far away from the mill is the Historic Ai Church. It’s at the corner of NC-68 and Alcorn Road in Oak Ridge, NC. I had driven by the place numerous times, and this morning, the sun had not quite come up, and I had a few minutes to spare, so I stopped in to see what photographic…
National D-Day Memorial
A goodly part of the Fall of 2020 was spent going back and forth between the house in Fairfax and Greensboro, NC. A contractor from work is in Greensboro, and a project they had been working on for some time was coming to fruition. There were many test and training session requiring a quick (?) jaunt down to Greensboro. Typically I would take Highway 29 to Greensboro, because: It’s a much more scenic drive than I-95/I-85 Even though all the various mapping tools will tell you it’s slower than I-95/I-85, it’s not because there is always some sort of slowdown on I-95 It’s much less stressful I hate I-95 with…