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Old Man Jade
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An okay boomer. Shklim/Shkler.
Sublime sweet potato chai at Ashville Chocolate, subtle sweetness, lightly spicy, a treat too good for this world, yet here it is.
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Is this a glitch? Is Charlie Brown Thanksgiving the new U2 album? Or is Apple testing content insertion into the watchlist on the Apple TV app? Don’t eff with my queue, Eddy Cue.

#AppleTV
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
At Dobra Tea in Asheville, green tea for my wife, I partook of Masala spiced(!) chai, cut with milk and dark, dark chocolate sugar. Three cups later my chest is vibrating like a tuning fork–love it!
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
One last fine day. If only human senescence was as beautiful (and quick) as a Japanese maple.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’m pretty sure psych grad students are doing A/B experiments between the smell in the orthopedist’s office, which smells like someone set off a lysol bomb, and the lobby of the medical office building blaring 80s pop music through ceiling speakers.
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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10/10 would read every word
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Along the French Broad River in Ashville, a chain leak fence repurposed as community art and therapy. Tie a ribbon and let it go.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reconstruction of the Black Creek Greenway is leaving it less green, deconstruction of the trees that overhung the trail being well underway. It used to be a shaded valley stroll during summer days, and maybe it be will again in 50 years, glad I got to experience it, sad I will not again.
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Fish are nice, but these turtles got a real Gamera vibe at Pine Knoll Shores aquarium.
October 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
From the mountains to the sea, the Pine Knoll Shores aquarium covers a lot of exhibit ground in North Carolina, this being a sleepy screech owl all screech out.
October 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Ten seconds of video from the Pine Knoll Shores aquarium because river otters.

#animals
October 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A Gulf Fritillary doing brunch outside the Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium on Emerald Isle, NC.

#Butterfly
September 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Another Sandpiper at Emerald Isle with acquaintance in background–there are no friends among beach feeders.
September 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Getting a close-up with a Sanderling at Emerald Isle takes patience, or its evil twin obession, and some ancient personal tech, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX10 lens camera attached to an iPhone 16e.
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Looking a little more weathery early in the morning at Emerald Isle doesn’t close the beach for breakfast.
September 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A surprising number of deer strolling about Emerald Isle. I guess they prefer the off season for beach vacations too.
September 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Emerald Isle, not exactly sunrise, four minutes later, but still.
September 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
They blend right in.
September 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Tis the season to enjoy fried dough with sugar, lots of sugar, and pumpkin spice while hiding from my wife.
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Looks like it’s Boogen season.

#RickandMorty
September 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A sign of the times at the downtown arts festival.
August 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Too far for a decent photo (AI “enhanced”), but plenty of time to do off-ramp math: 5 minutes per red light, one scruffy cuteness, 3 handouts. I figure $60 to $120 an hour easy. The unseen dude holding the leash has cracked the code on supplication.
August 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Gleaners Branta

#Art
August 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A couple of Bambis and their moms came through the back today, had to shoo them away from the dogwood I planted last year. Like cute locusts on four legs, deer have denuded a newly planted bush in the front yard and devoured most of the flowers. Still adorable, though.

#deer
August 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Monkey grass, lilyturf, whatever, it’s endemic in yards in the South. Those at the top I dug out of the front yard and tossed on the hill where a previous owner dumped poison to kill some evergreen groundcover. They are unkillable. These ugly plants have one job: stop erosion.
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM