On Jekyll Island the Federal Reserve began as a secret meeting of wealthy bankers. A slave ship landed here a half century after the Slave Trade was outlawed. The first transcontinental phone call from the president of AT&T to Bell and the President. All connected. eyeinhand.com/2025/12/11/s...

Well worth 15 minutes, just for the landscape views. youtu.be/RkBbA7iJN8g?...

Moonrise, Hayfield #photography #RuralSouth #AstroPhotography

Native vs Non-native speakers of America's rich dialects. Not as densely packed as in Britain, maybe, but equally challenging. eyeinhand.com/2025/11/28/s...

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by US immigration agents. Bruna Ferreira, who has a child with the White House press secretary’s brother, is now in custody at an ICE facility.

Lunar Drft

Sundown on the Chesapeake Bay, it turns cold fast. Sailing by starlight. youtube.com/shorts/znQv1...

NEW: an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” Essentially an AI-powered bot service in violation of all major social media platforms www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

I realized why AI is getting adopted so quickly. Its worst, most inaccurate, BS-filled hallucinations still make more sense than Cousin Ed. Come on, you know who I'm talking about. You have more than one Cousin Ed trolling in your replies right now. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

This post is a history and walking tour of the south end of Cumberland Island, the ruins of the Carnegie mansion, and wild horses on the beach. Oh, and nuclear submarines. With video. eyeinhand.com/2025/10/13/s...

A couple of new posts from the sailing series, with video, on Cumberland Island, Georgia. The is getting there from Amelia Island; ie, escape from Florida. With some history. eyeinhand.com/2025/10/12/s...

We aren't learning.

Same guy who declared bankruptcy 6 times shut down the U.S. government 4 times in 5 years of being President. They wanted him to run the government like his businesses and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

Under the surface. Amazing all the life on and around the rocks and rushing water in rapids of a river. #photography #nature #underwater

Model with sticks, tissue, and hot glue. Build plan. In progress. #design #handmade #diy

In which we visit the oldest bar in Florida, in Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island, and take a walking tour of the old town with the former official Folklorist for the state of Florida as our guide. And boy, let me tell you, she has some stories to tell . . . eyeinhand.com/2025/09/14/s...

Foxtail Grass and Fog #photography #ruralsouth #nature #landscape

I’ve started taking walks in the morning with my coffee. This is a good thing. #photography #sky #RuralSouth

@joshtpm.bsky.social DC takeover = step one. Staging National Guard in blue states = #2. Prep for military supression of revolt when Trump steals election. Everything else is a distraction from that. When your head is spinning in the 24 hour outrage cycle, easy to lose sight of their long game.

Cumberland Island, Georgia Anchored in the marsh, rowed to the old mansion. Two days on the island, saw no NPS staff. Just a lady in her 80s arrived by skiff that morning. A volunteer docent, alone all day. Trump/Doge cut the ferry, too, no one can get there. #nationalparks #history #photography

"whether he illegally shared or possessed classified information"

I agree with this. kottke.org/25/08/refusi...

Hay Cutting Season

Web backbones converge in Northern Virginia, so data centers cluster there. Fiber is best for that. Many trunk lines laid this year. Everyone in Virginia I know with Starlink switched to fiber the instant it was available. Another spoof by Musk to pad his pocket. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Datura Innoxia Moonflower Native to the American Southwest, a favorite subject of Georgia O’Keefe. I took seeds from a plant growing in the sidewalk one night in the city of Richmond. Offspring of that one plant have followed me everywhere for 40 years. #photography #bloomscrolling #WildFlowers

Local Art Scene #photography #ruralsouth #smalltown

Datura Innoxia Moonflower Native to the American Southwest, a favorite subject of Georgia O’Keefe. Seeds from a plant I found growing in the sidewalk one night in the city of Richmond have followed me everywhere for the last 40 years. Georgia came home. #photography #bloomscrolling #WildFlowers

Children, old people with demensia, incels, sociopaths . . . amplify everything just to sell more ads. www.reuters.com/investigates...

I was gonna post a screenshot of Meta’s examples of acceptable “sensual” dialogue with children, but I realized I’d have to type out alt text and that would probably get me added to some kind of list I really don’t wanna be on. So you’ll have to click and read the blue shaded table yourself.

Hike down into a gorge off the Blue Ridge Parkway. Copperhead, cliffs, and tumbling water. #nature #ruralsouth #video youtube.com/shorts/uj0BX...

Appalachia

Local venue. #photography #ruralsouth #nature #landscape #blueridgemountains

Found object. A hole so perfectly round and deep it looks man made. But is in bedrock at the bottom of the gorge next to the stream. #photography #nature

Thankful the things we love, that keep us sane, long outlast than the ones that make us crazy. #photography #ruralsouth #landscape #kayak

Entrance of an old stone arch, an aqueduct built in the 1700s to carry the Kanawha Canal. Since the late 1800s, it has instead carried the load of thousands of passing freight trains filled with coal dug from the mountains of West Virginia. #photography #ruralsouth #landscape #kayak

Part 2 of 2 Paddle thru a stone aqueduct of the Kanawha Canal, built in the 1700s. And a native swamp hibiscus, the “Marsh Mallow” youtube.com/shorts/Cz5bQ... #history #kayak #ruralsouth #NativePlants #WildFlowers

Paddle thru a stone aqueduct of the Kanawha Canal, built in the 1700s. Part 1 of 2 youtube.com/shorts/XX7Po... #history #kayak #nature

The natural inspiration for zen meditation gardens. I can’t unsee it. #photography #SilentSunday #ruralsouth #blueridgemountains