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Icy January with Wind

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Brisk winds from the North West blow the water out into the bay, resulting in unusually low tides. It’s called a “blow out” and this is one of the worst.  Never have I had my boat completely out of the water, sitting on it’s keel.  Luckily the lines and the pilings are keeping it upright enough to sleep and move about inside..  Electric heaters are keeping the interior livable when the temps drop down to 10 degrees F (-10F with the wind chill factored in).  Perfect weather for staying in and doing some computer work. Hmm.  Also have to photograph some watercolors for an  up coming exhibition at the state house.

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Natchez Trace

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Looking back at our trip to Natchez last year (Last month/week)  We took a short trip out on the Natchez trace to visit, among other things, Mount Olive; which was an inn for travelers who for the most part were walking back north after having gone downstream on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to sell wares in Natchez and New Orleans.  It was a nice foggy day, when we were there this trip and  felt a bit like a journey into the past.  There is no commerce or advertizing or development of any kind on the Natchez Trace, so it is a very pleasant and sometimes educational way to travel north and south.

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Natchez Malt Shop

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Zahn and I had a burger each at the Malt Shop in Natchez. While we waited we occupied ourselves taking a few selfies.  In this case I was shooting with my little action camera while Zahn was focusing on her cell phone camera.  Meanwhile back at the ranch:  I’m making great progress with the new website and it looks like I’ll actually have a whole new web site based on the WordPress template I’m using:  Salient.  It’s about all I do in the dark winter evenings except read murder mysteries and other such trash.  Zahn is doing research into the genealogy of a lady she met at one of the many Natchez parties we’ve been to, so we had to drive out into the Mississippi country side in search of a small graveyard.  Here is one of several stones we found…from March 1830.

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New Website

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I’m in the early challenging stages of converting my web presence to a WordPress based structure.  So I’m just feeling my way along. I’m in the middle of figuring out how to import some old posts from a WordPress.org site I had.  In the meanwhile, it’s time for a fresh start. and I’m using one of my favorite images from 2014:  A picture of my dingy pulled up on the shore of a small island in the Rhode River in Maryland.

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