Spitball Army

The photos that appear randomly in the header to this weblog – with the exception of the few listed at the bottom of this page – were all taken by me, and have been edited to fit a 970 x 140 pixel frame (not an obvious size for an image).  Let’s call it widewidescreen, or horizonscreen.  No claims here to the quality of the images, but they all held some fascination for me.  In no particular order (just as they appear on this website), they are:

• Amos, a Saint Bernard: my neighbor, who owns two human pets.
• The underside of the cantilever over the front entrance of Rosenbaum House, a Frank Lloyd Wright usonian home in Florence, Alabama.  The green tint is the reflection of the grass from either side of the front sidewalk.
  
• A row of CD cases in a CD rack in my former office at my former place of business.  The discs were stored in a 300-disc changer, which we used as a music “radio” before an iPod rendered it impractical and cumbersome.
  
• The tag line from a billboard on Crestwood Blvd in Birmingham, advertising the major-label debut album by Taylor Hicks.  “Much anticipated” sounds somewhat tepid if you’re trying to sell records, methinks.
  
• The back of many heads transfixed by the band Radiohead at a concert in The Meadow of Stone Mountain, Georgia.  The stage is a bright flash of white light.  This picture reminds me of 1984.
  
• Another picture from Rosenbaum House, this one of a sculpture of a sprite in the garden alcove outside the front door.
• Caitlin Cary performing at l’Edge.  That’s Caitlin with the fiddle in the middle.  Jen Gunderman is playing the accordion.  Dave Bartholomew is on the left.
• Jeff Lopez playing saxophone on the left, John Nuckols on drums, center.  This was from a performance at l’Edge in December 2007.
  
• Noah Adams, wearing headphones, jamming to the sounds of a CD that he really liked but couldn’t convince his Dad to buy.  Dad is standing next to him, hands in pockets, listening to Jeff Lopez and John Nuckols and company, who were also jamming.
  
• Sunset through the tree tops on January 1st, 2008, facing downtown Birmingham from my back deck.
• The dogwood tree in my front yard, in bloom.
• The children of Eliot Morris in rapt attention as they watch their father in performance.  At l’Edge, December 2007.
• Another blurry musicians-in-motion photo: Eliot Morris and Matthew Mayfield, December 2007.
• Snow on magnolia tree.  My back yard, January 2008.
• Matt Nathanson in performance at l’Edge.  Yes, he was resting his nose on the microphone.  Great guy, by the way, who was really interested in the mundane workings of a record store and, thus, quite unlike your average travelling musician.
  
• The top row or two of Ben Burford’s re-working of the Sgt. Pepper album cover, incorporating images from sixteen years of l’Edge history.  This photo was previously mentioned here.
• A detail of the bear on the state flag of California.
• An excerpt from the 22 April 1943 V-Mail letter of Bev (Beverly Anderson) to Ande (Hubert L. Anderson).
• Beverly Anderson and friend Marge Riefel at the beach, Southern California, July 1942. Notice the life guard sign.
• Bev & Ande, according to Bev’s notes, “on crowded beach one Sunday,” July 1942.
• Bev & Ande at Yosemite National Park, at “place where Firefalls is pushed over Mt. Ledge,” August 1942.  There is nothing but sky behind them.
  
• Another photo detail from Bev & Ande’s visit to Yosemite, here “at top of Half Dome (20 mi. hike),” August 1942.  The panorama in the full picture is breathtaking.
  
• Beverly, “on top of Ledge Trail at Glacier Pt.,” Yosemite, August 1942.
  
• View of the rear of the Rosenbaun House in Florence, Alabama.
  
• What I create when I’m not writing creatively.
  
• A photo from childhood: hanging out in our front yard with my sister and our neighbor’s dog, Gypsy.
  
• My sister Tricia, again, cracking up with our cousin Melissa.
  
• The legendary Billy Joe Shaver, in performance at l’Edge.
  
• Luke Steele and bandmate, of The Sleepy Jackson, in performance at l’Edge.
  
• Eyes, from a big ol’ poster advertising the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 3.
  
• Blue sky at twilight, as seen from my back porch.
  
• Detail from a village-scape in Morocco. Sent to me by an acquaintance who teaches there.
  
• A random photo I took at a Pavarotti concert at the Charles River Esplanade in Boston. This pic inspired The Gourmand.
  
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