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Once a month, Nina and I set aside a whole day to spend together doing something fun or adventurous (ideally, both). Today we drove to Grandfather Mountain , a privately owned preserve about 80 miles from Asheville. It's a lovely place, with stunning views in every direction. It's been a while since I bragged about the beauty of western North Carolina by sharing some photos, so let's fix that now. (Right click/open link in new tab to see them full size.) The aptly named Split Rock: Immediately adjacent to Split Rock is this one, which they call Sphinx Rock. Yes, the entire thing (estimated to weigh 4000 tons) is resting on the small rock under it. The Rickety Bridge of Certain Death. Well, that's what it felt like walking across. It's possible that's not its official name. Grandfather Mountain actually has several peaks on the same base. This is the tallest one, seen from one of the more accessible ones. Just a few random dramatic views: Here's a couple of s...

My friend Elizabeth Wolynski has compiled some of her fine WSOP photographs into a video. I especially like many of the black & white portraits in the first couple of minutes.

Nina and I went to Knoxville, TN, yesterday for her early birthday present of tickets to a James Taylor concert. We spent the day doing some sightseeing before the main event. First we took a long walk through the lovely Ijams Nature Center . A log just a few feet from the Tennessee River was studded with hundreds of mushrooms. I decided this photo of some of them worked best in black and white: This is a " geologic fold ." Bee on a sunflower: This magnificent creature is a red-tailed hawk. It has an irreparably damaged wing, and therefore can't be released back into the wild, so the nature center rehabilitated it and uses it for education about raptors. Her name, unofficially, is Tiger. Next we went up into the Sunsphere , a structure built for the 1982 World's Fair. I have no good photos from that part of the day. Then it was on to the Knoxville Museum of Art , just a stone's throw from the Sunsphere. One intriguing piece was this one, by Devorah Sperber . It...

There was a " Color Run " in my neighborhood this morning. I took some photos, which you can see here .