Steven’s Notebook

One of the local high schools’ lacrosse program had their annual post-season banquet last night, and it included some of my photography. I’d stopped by one game back in February at the request of one of their coaches, my friend Peter. I took and edited some pictures, posted them on my photography site, and was […]

I decided to pull a few old snapshots out of the photo album just to see how much I could do to restore them. I’m no photo restoration expert, so if you’ve got pointers please pass them along.
I started by scanning a photo on my HP PhotoSmart 2570. This is a photo of me […]

Let’s hear it for the “6-year-old son of a constituent,” getting his voice heard by his congressman and perhaps giving Hawaii a ’state fish’ once again.
Everybody sing along with Eric Stone [mp3]… “The Humuhumunukunukuapua’ is the fish that I Aloha / He likes to swim at the top of the reef near the beaches at […]

I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid facesFrom counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe To please a […]

It’s springtime in the Atlanta area. That means that the flowers and plants are blooming, the pollen is flying, and the trees are draped with TP.

For some unknown reason, high school students in this area have a tradition known euphemistically as the “Junior-Senior War.” I prefer to call it by it’s proper name - vandalism.
Between […]

It’s been a few weeks since I posted any sports photos, and my son’s baseball team has been doing well this week, so it’s time once again. These are from Tuesday evening’s game. As usual, you can click on any image to see a larger version.

Here’s my son sliding into third base, right before scoring […]

This brand-new car was left in the parking lot of a local church while it’s owner’s on a mission trip.

Unfortunately for the owner that was this past weekend, when the storm hit. Ouch.

One week ago today, we sailed into Key West’s City Marina at Garrison Bight and docked. After cleaning the Heritage, we were “sailors in a port town” for the day. Since co-shipmate Brad and I had both been to Key West before and had already seen most of the tourist things - and because of […]

As promised, today I start posting images from last week’s trip. Here’s a picture of our ship, the Heritage Of Miami II.

This is one of the same locations we stopped at three years ago.

We’re back, and I’ll be posting stories and pictures of our trip over the next few days, but what a sight we returned to. Along with AL and TN, the Atlanta GA area got hit by a powerful set of storms and a few tornados as well. The building — or what’s left of it […]