Asheboro Zoo

You know... we should all make more time out of our lives to go to the zoo. If you like animals that is! BUT, and this is a big but. There is only one thing that bothers me about the zoo. How did these animals get here? Ever thought about it?

 I love all kinds of animals!  And I surely love seeing animals that I would never get to see unless I went on a safari or something. Lets just all hope none of the animals were harmed to get to the zoos.

Not trying to say anything here... just wondering! Then again - where else does our nice leather come from. Or our delicious meats. I guess you could throw this into the whole circle of life thing.

Personally, I think some animals were put here for us to love on, some were put here for us to eat and some were put here to look at... and the list goes on and on...

Cheers :)

Around the house

Every once in a while... I catch these little boogers hanging out around the house. Sometimes I think they're actually posing for me!

Cheers :)

Christmas 2012

This year for the holidays... I ate way too much delicious food and spent several days with my mom in little ole Lilesville. The locals call it L.A which is short for Lilesville area.

There is hardly ever a time when I visit that I don't roam the land reminiscing my years of growing up as a kid. It's pure country down in Lilesville area. 

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Enjoy a few photos I took while I was there.

Cheers :)

This is the house from the movie "The Color Purple". It's a beautiful place!

 These last 2 photos are of the old store just down the road from the house. The light coming from this store almost had the yard lite up! I use to ride my bicycle down the road to this store and grab a bottled mountain dew. Sigh... the good ole days!

RIP W.R Bonasl Co. Mining Division

Apparently I am behind on times since this news is already a year old. Now that I look back in life, this job was one of my best jobs. It didn't pay all that great but this company was filled with great people to work with. I can just stare at this picture and see everything just like it use to be.

I can remember hearing horns and the back up alarms from all the heavy machinery. I was eventually hired in 1995 and left in mid 1997 to pursue other jobs with better salaries.

W.R Bonsal Co. was one of those places where all the "good ole boys" worked. Everybody was super friendly and most everyone had tons of stories they could tell about the old days of working there.

Such sad news. Long live W.R Bonsal Mining Co.

Hendersonville, NC

At first, I was going to get myself a room for tomorrow night. Since the wedding I'm helping shoot tomorrow is way out in the who-knows-where land. After looking over the schedule I thought, I'm pretty good at staying up late. So driving 3.5 hours all the way back home will be no problem.

So I decided to make the trip a day earlier and get a room so I can be somewhat close for the wedding.

It took me around 2 hours and 10 minutes to get here and boy lemme tell ya. I'm not too sure I'll be staying here again. And by "here" I mean Hendersonville, NC.

The gas is nearly 30 cents higher than Charlotte and the folks here are... well I'll keep that to myself!

The hotel I'm staying at is the Ramada. I didn't expect a 5 star hotel but it's definitely not worth 90 bucks a night either.  If the lights didn't flicker when I plug my laptop in one of the power outlets and it was around 50 bucks, I'd come back.

To be continued...

Sushi Dinner

If you ask me I'd say this fish has only a few minutes of life left. It even looks as if it's trying to say something! Goodbye world maybe...

The circle of life in action.

Raining - like crazy!

It's not like I have all the time in the world to stop what I'm doing just to go out on the porch and listen to the thunderstorm we are having... it's more of a "you only live once kinda thing" where I allow myself to stop working for a few minutes; go out on the front porch and just chill, take a deep breath and take in the sights and sounds of everything!

Good grief... it's crazy how relaxing it is. To make it even better, it's nearly 11pm here in Indian Trail.  Nothing but the sound of rain, frogs and crickets and thunder!

Too bad I don't have a tin roof!

It's breaks like this that helps the creative juices to flow!

What's your super power?

I don't remember if I've ever blogged about this topic. If so, then here is an updated version.


Ever been asked the super power question? It usually goes a little something like this-  "if you could have any super power, what would it be"?

I actually think about this sort-of thing a lot. The last time I was asked what my super powers would be if I could have any; I said... I wish I could fly.

Screw that. I mean, being able to fly like a bird would be cool but I'm ready to take my super power up a notch.

If I could have one super power, it would be to be able to go back in time. Not like the phone booth deal from Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure either. Something a little more swanky. Maybe something like turning invisible and re-appearing in a different timeline of life. And being able to rewind or fast forward at any given moment.

How about this computer I'm typing on. The parts had to come from all around the world. Who made the parts, what made the parts, when, how... you name it. I'd go all the way back to the very materials it took to make the parts. Who was working on the job when the parts were made. Where did they come from. All of that stuff.

It could go for any material thing or any person. How about a missing person. I'd love to be able to channel myself back in the threads of time and be an invisible existence to see what really happened and be able to know where they are.

How about this blog platform, blogger! I'd love to go back in time and see for myself who thought of the idea, how they thought of the idea, what gave them the idea. Were they drinking a cup of coffee, was it a late night thought... Who ever it was, thank you! I can now get my thoughts on a blog site and share it with the world.

Now, if you could have any super power, what would it be?

A touch of Joe Dirt

Have you ever seen the movie Joe Dirt? If you haven't then do yourself a favor and watch it! That movie is brilliant in so many ways, ha!

If you have seen it, you'll probably remember the part where Joe talks about looking up at the moon and wondering if the person he is thinking about is looking up at the same moon at the exact same time, while thinking about him.

I sort-of had that same kind of thought tonight.

As I was driving back home from a wedding tonight, the sky was beautiful in so many ways. Even though it was dark and pushing midnight, there was a lightning storm way off in who-knows-where land. At first I thought it was storming in my part of the town but as I drove closer to home, there was no site of a storm.

My drive back home took right around 45 minutes. It's the one part of Interstate 485 that has 3 lanes and very little traffic. Which made it extra nice with the light show going on in the distance. In addition to the streaks of lightning going off in the distance, the moon was almost full. It was that moment when I had my Joe Dirt moment!

So... my question is; have you ever looked up at the moon and thought of someone and wondered what they're doing? It's not so much that I wonder if they are thinking about me while looking at the moon but then again, it has crossed my mind.

With the very popular social networking site of facebook, we can have a little more insight on what people are doing but it's a little deeper than a quick status update. It's more of wondering what they are doing in life, how they got to where they are now and wondering if they ever think about you in any kind of way. And wondering what their thoughts of you are.


I even think about people that I've never met before. For example, tonight at the wedding, I saw lots of people. I didn't know a single person but a few faces were highlighted in my memory. That usually comes from doing something like speaking or wearing something that catches your eye. So I often wonder... will I ever see that person again in life? After the person leaves that wedding, what lifestyle will they be going back to? That sort-of stuff.


If you really only knew all the stuff that I wonder about...

A few pics

I've been drooling over this camera (Canon 5D Mark II) for a while now. So I decided to "act now" and add it to my weapons of mass photography!

Enjoy!