grassy knoll adventures

into the trees

2008-10-06T20:29:00.002-04:00

lunching with Gmoney

2008-08-22T15:37:00.001-04:00

breaktime with mr G

2008-08-11T06:04:00.000-04:00

dog goggles

2008-08-03T12:01:00.002-04:00

driftwood

2008-08-03T11:48:00.002-04:00

waves: sand

2008-07-29T20:13:00.002-04:00

wreck

2008-07-22T21:26:00.001-04:00

nocturnal ignitions

2008-07-15T21:19:00.000-04:00

how kites get to the beach

2008-06-05T07:34:00.002-04:00

over and over

2008-06-04T20:03:00.002-04:00

yes, i basically take the same picture. over and over.

empty

2008-04-29T22:17:00.001-04:00

sharks

2008-04-29T05:48:00.000-04:00

brained by falling masonry

2008-04-28T19:51:00.003-04:00

sunday morning on the beach

2008-04-28T19:43:00.003-04:00

untrue

2008-03-27T22:26:00.001-04:00

waves: metal

2008-03-21T22:33:00.002-04:00

welcome to hell

2008-03-10T21:02:00.002-04:00

february kites

2008-02-26T19:59:00.003-05:00

pvb

2008-01-20T06:27:00.001-05:00

mdc

2008-01-11T20:12:00.000-05:00

clouds

2008-01-11T20:11:00.001-05:00

Grr's First Xmas

2007-12-17T06:46:00.001-05:00

vilano

2007-12-10T03:51:00.000-05:00

delicious weenies

2007-11-30T05:16:00.000-05:00

h20

2007-11-10T04:26:00.001-05:00

hurray for GRR!

2007-11-05T19:40:00.000-05:00

downtown

2007-11-04T21:15:00.001-05:00

clouds and surf

2007-10-26T06:01:00.000-04:00

clouds(more blue)

2007-10-21T16:43:00.001-04:00

clouds (little fluffy)

2007-10-18T06:08:00.000-04:00

alligator heads

2007-10-01T20:41:00.001-04:00

swimming hazard

2007-09-27T04:29:00.001-04:00

pipes

2007-09-22T16:31:00.001-04:00

kites: closer

2007-09-18T21:45:00.000-04:00

Here are views of some kites I had up a few weeks ago. MRS. shot the pix as I hauled the things down out of the sky. It was a good day for kites. Moderate winds and few folks on the beach. We were setup about half way between the entrance and where all the surfers do their thing. We got a lot of positive feedback from passing gangs of surfers.

Here's one of the Heralds I got from Gomberg Kites.

This is the Dragon Delta. It's about five feet wide. There are two 24 foot tails attached to this one. This is one of the first Deltas I picked up. It's not a true "dragon"-there are two other kites styles that claim that name. I guess it's a dragon because of the picture of the dragon on it.......

Here is a Shadow Delta from Gomberg Kites. This kite is about seven feet wide. The tail is 48 feet. This was a bonus gift when I picked up the Heralds on close out.

This is the Radian Delta. A nine foot monster from Gomberg Kites. The tail is 48 feet long.

kites

2007-09-09T07:53:00.001-04:00

a hobby i have picked up since moving to florida: flying kites. unfortunately, i tend to fly the things higher than is practical for optimal photographic representation.......but this will give you general idea of what passes for fun at the beach in my world.

no trespassing please

2007-08-13T22:02:00.001-04:00

ALL HAIL GRR!

2007-08-12T06:54:00.000-04:00

Please welcome Grr, our newest staff member at The Bunker.

Grr is ten weeks old. He is already deeply committed to his Battle to Destroy All Shoes.

Grr was named by his sisters, Natasha and Drusilla. It was that or "Hiss,"
and who wants to be named after a spy (Alger)? His Moms calls him Gershwin. His Dads wanted to name him Aku (keeping with tradition of naming all cats after cartoon villians).

Drusilla hides from Grr.

at the end of the line

2007-08-03T00:45:00.000-04:00

often dreamt of trains

2007-07-29T20:12:00.000-04:00

poolside

2007-07-07T18:25:00.000-04:00

the sidewalk ends

2007-06-24T16:18:00.001-04:00

fire

2007-06-18T21:49:00.001-04:00

blackrock beach

2007-06-06T21:50:00.001-04:00

borderline

2007-05-24T05:36:00.001-04:00

text book cover

2007-04-01T00:46:00.000-04:00

a couple of years ago, i worked in "the woods." i was the hutmaster of a wilderness lodge in the adirondack mountains. it was an excuse to retreat from the real world and take a lot of pix of the forest primeval. in between moments of catering to eco-tourists i would wander around the 22 acres under my stewardship with my Pentax and pretend to be Minor White. i would take meditative pictures of the few places that light would break through the canopy of trees. i hoped to illuminate the wonder that is "the roof of New York state."

recently, a professor of Kenetics at Penn State spied some of my work on the web. He liked what he saw and decided that my photo should grace the cover of his textbook about the interaction of rocks and water. this image will be the cover of an upcoming textbook. it's a small run (450 books), but hey, it will help me buy a new scanner ....

improv4

2007-02-28T21:02:00.000-05:00

improv3

2007-02-27T06:03:00.000-05:00

blues and the abstract truth

2007-02-26T07:31:00.000-05:00

read only memory

2007-02-26T07:24:00.000-05:00

the light pours out...

2007-01-24T06:40:00.000-05:00

sitting 'round at home

2007-01-16T23:31:00.000-05:00

The Shrine

2006-12-30T07:14:00.000-05:00

Just south of Ponte Vedra Beach, on the way to St Augustine, lies what some call the Guana preserve. A bastion of wildness tuck into the sprawl that is north east florida, the preserve has as one of its many assests a fine stretch of beach. Since the preserve also acts as a bird/wildlife sanctuary, the beaches are free of the dune side development that haunts many of the beaches in the area. So if it's sea to the east and dunes to west, Guana is the place for you.

Being a beach, lots of flotsam and jetsam wash up on the shore. If you spend enough time there, you will see folks taking the time to pick up and carry off some of this ocean borne trash. But others have come up with different solution: The Shrine. The Shrine is built solely of items found on the beach. It can be viewed as something both clever and creepy. Clever in its use of any and all items that wash up on shore. Creepy in it being a lone primitivist object on an otherwise empty beach.

here are a few pix of The Shrine:

2006-12-23T00:28:00.000-05:00

so last year,sometime before xmas, i highlighted a little "backpack kite" in an REI catalog. and then promptly forgot about it until i unwrapped a present and there it was. so i took it to the beach and other places and tried to figure out how to fly it. some how, some where mrs and i found out about some sort of spring time kite demo in st augustine. when i spied the monster in these pix, i was beyond hooked.....

the happy little monkey

2006-10-08T09:20:00.000-04:00