This past weekend, I made the trek home for Mother’s Day. I didn’t have much time to spend with my camera, my mom kept me too busy the entire visit. However, I did steal a few moments before I headed back to Wilmington to shoot a few sights of the homestead.   When my parents finished the house where my mom lives (yes, they built it…and when I say built, I mean they did the work. Not that they hired a contractor) they wanted a weather vane on the house. Their precocious little six year old knew how it should look. It needed to be a dog. Forty-two years later, I still love that weather vane! When I was a kid my parents raised 2.5 The rest of the story

I’m a frequent visitor to the marina in Carolina Beach. In the spring and fall I am there every Saturday. This past Saturday, however, I spent some time with a different view of the marina and marina life. I met a group of men who had been scuba diving. They told of bull nose sharks and a variety of underwater adventures. Although they wanted to know why I would take photos of their tanks and not of the ‘handsome group of men’ 🙂 I am fairly certain the fishermen who use these do not call them bobbers, but I also feel confident they serve a similar purpose. I, of course, am VERY attracted to the orange color!         A neighbor once told me that The rest of the story

On Saturday, April 23, 2011 I snuck away from my soap selling duties to attend the attempt by the model railroaders from the Wilmington Rail Road Museum to break the record for the world’s longest model train at Wilmington’s new Convention Center. A train consisting of 31 locomotives and 1563 cars was placed on 1000 feet of track in the Convention Center’s main exhibit hall.  At about 925.55 feet long, this train traveled continuously for 750 feet to surpass the record set by Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany in 2008.  The World Record Run was witnessed and documented in order to be included among other achievements listed by Guinness World Records. A special feature of this event allowed individuals and businesses to sponsor a limited edition locomotive, custom The rest of the story