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I've never been a beach person - nor much of a water person for that matter - there are only lakes and rivers in the land-locked Prairies scoured out of the ground by the glacial action of the last ice age and the meltwaters of the Rocky Mountains .

But, I think I could be...

Place name links like Carolina Beach, NC go to Wikipedia. Place name links like Carolina Beach use the local tourism or government website.
 
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2012.10.25 Artists at Work
 
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TFS needed pictures for her publicity portfolio, so we went to vist celebrated photographer Brownie Harris at his studio in Wilmington. Brownie has photographed a number of very-famous subjects for some iconic portraits over his multi-decade career.   

Miles Davis in the
last portrait taken before his death
  

Brownie has a large open-space studio
with a pool table,
which made him a
Cool Guy (to me) as
soon as I walked in
the door.
  

 
  

 
 
2012.10.26 The Neighbourhood Again
 
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The Joy Lee Apartments are a few blocks south of the beach house, and I pass them every morning to or from getting coffee and the newspaper. It's a funky art deco building with a lot of painted formed concrete. Very noticeable amongst the other condos built on stilts in the area.   

 
  

 

 
  

 

 
  

 

 

A couple blocks south and one block west is the marina.   

fishing boats for hire
  

 
  

one of 3 big party boats
  

 
  

houses across the marina
 
2012.10.27 Hurricane Sandy
 
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Hurricane Sandy brushed the coast here in North Carolina and made for some entertaining, but not dramatic, weather. TFS and I were a bit disappointed that there wasn't more mayhem, and the view was even less dramatic from the beach - I didn't even bother taking any pictures from there.


the pelicans
were nonplussed
  

the wind misted
the wave tops
  

 
  

This guy tried to surf
  

but was repeatedly
  

pushed back by the

waves and further
  

south down the beach
  

and did not make
  

a wave at all until
  

he finally gave up
  

and headed home.

With Sandy churning up the ocean and the air, the beach isn't as hospitable this weekend. So what do we do? Why, head inland for a NASCAR race - the Tums Fast Relief 500 at the Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, VA !

The Martinsville race is the closest NASCAR race to the beach, and it's a short-track race like Bristol Motor Speedway - easy to see and tighter racing. So, by 1pm we hit the road to make it through the wind and rain, which get lighter the further inland we go.

 
 
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