Blog: Mad Man
Entries for May, 2011
Experience the joy of exceptional music
Generally speaking, it's more likely you'll find me at The Rooster's Wife on a Sunday evening, soaking in the sounds of American roots music, than at a symphony concert any day of the week. Like any music, classical has its various threads and styles, some of which are pleasing and ...
An important day in N.C.'s history
Regardless of what your feelings are about it, today marks an important date in the history of the Old North State. It was 150 years ago today that North Carolina withdrew from the United States and joined the other southern states in forming the Confederate States of America, and thus ...
Close up looks at spring
I've been shooting closeups of blooms for the past year, and find that the closer I look, the more beautiful they appear. Here is a clematis from last weekend.
United for a few minutes
If only for a brief and fleeting instant, it appeared the country came together this week with the news of Osama bin Laden's death. Even if we don't know exactly what it means in terms of bin Laden's role as a fading memory, American's seemed genuinely relieved. My neighbor, who ...
