His Point of View

Last weekend I attended the Big Cherry Block Party in Silver Spring, MD to hang out with the crew from Pinz-N-Needlez Tattoo shop while they performed body painting and interacted with former and future customers.  Take a look at the video from the day.

Body Painting @ Big Cherry Street Festival

If you know me well, you know that there are a few things that I really enjoy consuming: fine chocolate, fine cheese, good wine, and excellent beer. My birthday was yesterday, and I can say that this entire weekend was dedicated to enjoying all four items listed above. I picked up four 8 oz. cheese slices this week and I have stared on two of them, Drunken Goat and Chimay Grand Cru. (continue reading…)

I have lived in the metro Washington, DC area for just over a year now, and yesterday was the first time I actually saw a Presidential or Vice Presidential motorcade on the streets.  In fact I saw it twice in the course of 2 hours.   I am not sure which motorcade it was, because I could not see inside any of the vehicles… but it was still interesting to see the rolling roadblock in action on 14th Street.  The part of the motorcade which caught me by surprise was the ambulance that trailed behind all the black SUVs with agents standing through the roof, the vans, the truck and the dozens of police cars and motorcycles.  I did not have a camera with me at the time, so I searched the web and I found the photo below (on FLickr.com) which shows a part of some  motorcade, including the trailing ambulance.

I immediately thought about how the President and Vice President must be reminded constantly of fact that their job as leaders of the nation causes a state of  imminent danger of actions by US citizens who disagree with their ideas, and from foreign powers who seek to cause turmoil.  Imagine what it might be like to go out for dinner with your wife after work, and an ambulance was required to follow you around…just in case (continue reading…)

I think I will start a new periodic piece here called a moment to share, where I will post random things that I have observed or heard personally out in the “real world”.  I will begin with these B&W photos I took around DC during two afternoons/nights this summer (2009).

Remembering our Veterans and their families who sacrificed so much in the name of this nation.