July 18, 2005

Seafood Social

This photo shows my chow position at the sawhorse and plywood table.

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We are way out here where the June Bugs sing, the locusts drone and the humidity has won. Give it up y'all, looking calm cool & collected just ain't gonna happen tonight.
As the Czechs in Bohemia say, it's "cucumber season",
with all the double entendre a hot summer deserves.

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July 10, 2005

Steamy weather

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Sky is overcast from the category 4 Hurricane in the Gulf.

The new Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge towers are
758 feet above Charleston Harbor.

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Chucktown's new bridge

Walked the new Cooper River Bridge:


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The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge.
Towers are 572 feet above the roadway.
Roadway is 186 feet above Charleston Harbor.

The little bridgetop on the left is the old
John P. Grace Bridge,
built way back in 1929. Still in use!
It's the "old Cooper River bridge" and is a
two lane - too narrow - too scary bridge
with metal grates on the roadway at the top that make a loud tire noise like the bottom fell out just as you got to the top and the car is plunging.

If you have the nerve you can look through the
metal grate roadway down to the water.
Way Down!

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July 4, 2005

Mammoth Sunflower


U-Shuck Corn 10 cents an ear.
102F heat index.
Rain & thunder from 1 am to 4 am.
Spent Saturday drifting downstream in tea colored water.
Spent Sunday scratching whelps on my legs from mosquito bites or maybe I have fleas. Doesn't matter, it's been a wonderful 4th.

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Happy Fourth Of July 2005


PS:
end of summer 2005:
This photo won an award
SFGate Culture Blog:Summer 2005
(scroll down to the sunflower)

If you came here through the SFGate link, try also this other July 4th Post.
and don't forget the
Main Page

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