Virginia Breeze

, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

Today Beth and I spent most of the day downtown at the Richmond Folk Festival. There was such a positive response to the National Folk Festival in the past few years that the  sponsors in the area generously volunteered to continue their support.

There were some world class acts here this year and I will share some things about them in the next week. I’m pretty tired tonight but I did want to post something about it now.
The weather was perfect. People were having a great time. It’s lots of fun seeing all the old hippies come out in their wheel chairs.
Just kidding. We will have to wait a few more years for that. But there was a lot of dancing and jumping around. Shouts and applause. Didn’t smell any hemp however. Darn!

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I was looking here yesterday evening and just sort of staring at the blog.  Feeling relatively empty after a week of turmoil and just amazed also at all the things I have done here in the past month.

Lots of creative stuff for an old geezer and maybe that’s what blogging will do for you after awhile.  Like anything else if you pursue it over a period of time you will learn some things and grow in different ways.  I was amazed as I went back to the beginning of our  trip in August.  But now I’m feeling pretty much empty.  When that happens it is always a good time to try and get out to take more photos.  Photos are the fuel and the Nikon D70 is the fuel tank.  It is rather small by today’s standards but then the fuel comes in micro-bits.

Beth tells me that the National Folk Festival will not be coming here this year but Richmond has managed to retain all the sponsors and plans to do the same thing again.   Hopefully many of the same talented people will be here plus some more.  Smile everyone!  Click.

Actually that’s not the way we take photos here.  We like to go for the candid shot.  And it’s difficult to get birds to smile.  Their beaks are a little too stiff.

And then we will be going up to northern Virginia to see my daughter and her family.   We have not seen their new home in Leesburg, Virginia.   It’s a pretty picture perfect part of the state so there should be more photo opportunities there.   As well as my grandchildren of course.  But not to worry they are all part of the paranoid wing of the party (I mean family) and like Beth will never be seen online.   Or rarely.  I have managed to sneak one or two photos of the kids into the blog but don’t tell anyone.

One thing I did manage to create this week was a new look for http://myfotobuzz.com.     Each post is going to be a combination of one larger photo and then there will be four NextGen photos with similar content beneath.  I think it will be pretty interesting.  After a year or two with keyword growth it should do well.  If you have a nice photoblog why not think about linking up?   That helps everyone too when done in a legitimate way.

Eventually I may start advertising there or maybe try to sell some photos.  Maybe.  When (if ever) I become convinced it isn’t a waste of time.

Have a nice weekend everyone.  The nice weather is finally coming in many places.  Hopefully the storms have passed and some of us can enjoy life a bit more again.