January 11, 2018
apothecaryshedster
animals, cute, dogs, humor, nature, Photography, river, who knows
animals, dogs, environment, golden retreiver, humor, ice, paddling, photography, shenandoah river, video
With age does not always wisdom come. But, fun it was! We had a crazy-cold week that froze the river, and now a crazy-warm day to test out the water. Nice.
Mogli leads the way.
The mic on my phone was broken, but just imaging the sound of crunching ice.
Time for a break.
Here, imagine geese honking their displeasure! and ice popping as it melts. Hit ‘play’ and it is not upside down.
Sweet Mogli has captured a hunk of ice to take home! (Video is correct when plays)
Dirty hand is happy hand.
Exactly how i feel! :)
December 24, 2017
noplasticshowers
dogs, fire, party
cerbe, dogs, jacob, mogli, photography, solstice, solstice fire, solstice party, video, winter solstice, winter solstice 2017
Cerbe meets mogli before dark
Music. Great food. Huge fire. Friends. Boilo. What more could you want?
Early birds get to see the lighting
Mmmmmm. Beer.
The lighting
Put it in perspective: 100 feet of flame.
This year the fairy ring of osage oranges turned into a warning line for fire spread. We had to get water buckets and a hose out for the first time ever.
The fire spreads
View from the field
The two (or three) pods making up the solstice party are always a good mix. Food and cheesy Christmas music in the barn. Fire and live music in the field. This year some of the real music moved into the barn during a brief rain.
Lights
Boilo causes time warps
Marco
Boilo
Turn sun turn
Thanks to all who came. An excellent iteration.
November 15, 2017
apothecaryshedster
animals, cats, cute, dogs, farm, humor, nature, Photography, who knows
cats, dogs, golden retreiver, humor, mogli, Soupy jr, Sunshine
Mogli
Sunshine
Mogli tends to Soupy Jr.
Soupy Junes plays coy
Sun shine
Success
November 10, 2017
apothecaryshedster
animals, cute, dogs, farm, nature, Photography, who knows
bassett hound, dogs, environment, golden retreiver, home, mogli, puck, sophie
Mogli, single shot
Puck, single shot, close behind.
on return.
speedy sophie
pre-sprint chill
August 29, 2016
apothecaryshedster
animals, cute, dogs, farm, humor, nature, Photography, river, who knows
dogs, field of dreams, gem, mogli, nature, photography, river, shenandoah, shenandoah river
August 29, 2016
noplasticshowers
dogs, Photography, river
amy, chronograph, clock, dogs, nature, photography, puck, river, shenandoah, shenandoah river
Years ago, my son Eli and I decided to build an art project underwater in the river. We started with the biggest rock around for hundreds of yards and built a pool around that. Then we began moving the wall of the pool out into the river in search of the late afternoon sun.
Shenandoah Blue
Here is what the river looks like.
Ultimately, we ended up with a chronograph. There’s a rock for every hour. Here’s how that ends up looking.
Anytime pool
4 o’clock rock
5 o’clock rock
6 o’clock rock
7 o’clock rock
Remember, all of these pictures were taken at 3 o’clock. So sun everywhere. Our trees are damn tall.
The peeps
The cooler
Some kind of clock
This dog has nothing to do with anything.
Puck who does not tell time
August 28, 2016
noplasticshowers
dogs, sailing
dogs, leukemia cup, nature, photography, practice, river, sailing, stretch, team tartan
Or something like that.
Team Tartan Commodore Chris and mascot Stretch
For the last eight years, my brother Chris and I have been sailing the National Capitol Leukemia Cup regatta. We mostly do this to raise money to fight leukemia (a disease that killed our mother), but we also like to win the race on the water.
Over the years we have done just a smidge better raising money than we have sailing the race. We were number one in both a few years back. But since then, our sailing has become a bit rusty even while we have taken home the fundraising Leukemia Cup for many years in a row.
This year we’re kicking ass on the fundraising front (thanks to our many donors, but especially to phil venables). So far we have raised a collective $56,207. That is a major record for Team Tartan.
If you would like to donate, you can do it now on the net.
In order to up our game on the water, we did some practice this weekend.
Sailing Practice with Team Tartan
The jib pole is always a challenge.
Sailing practice can be tiring. Here is our mascot Stretch ready to jibe.
JIBE! Er, sleep.
See you on the water.
Fin.
PLEASE MAKE A DONATION TO TEAM TARTAN
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