Road Trips

Road Trips

The old Pier

  These old wooden piers get a bit shaky underfoot during a big swell. Safe? Well all of the piers down here in the outer banks have been totally wiped out by storms at one time or another and like everything else here get rebuilt. When it’s breaking out beyond the pier most normal people …

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Flashback 3

  Part of my outer banks summer flashback series. Surfer at Avalon pier break does a cutback into the wave and a serious ” lip slash”.

Flashback on the coldest day

Summer flashback on the coldest day of winter. Avalon pier break surfer checks out the waves before paddling out. In the outer banks a strong current often carries surfers perhaps several hundred yards from where they paddled out, so they walk back to their starting point. It’s not an easy life.

Flashback

  It’s freezing cold in the outer banks right now. So I am posting a summertime flashback of what now seems a hazy memory. Summer is right around the corner, yes?

Storm

  Outer Banks gale force winds. Always inspiring. Sometimes we complain of foul weather here, longing for a hot summer day and a cold beer under the umbrella. Yet we secretly love a raging foamy sea and the wind and the rain whipping us forcing us to run back inside. Truth is when we reminisce …

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Nags Head woods

Nags Head woods. A seemingly “country ride” just back from the beach and a totally different ecosystem from the rest of this barrier island. #OBX#nagshead

Goodbye party

Goodbye party for Liaryz Ramos after she assisted me non-stop for a whole month. Whew! Wonder Woman as any former assistant would agree. A month with DAH can’t possibly be easy. Puerto Rico to Tokyo to Outer Banks and now New York then back to Puerto Rico where she will assist @michellemaddensmith at our workshop …

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Boxers

  Salvador, Bahia (Brazil). This was one of 22 choices for this audience on my second small print sale which ended last night at midnight. A big thank you to those who made a choice. We had a Cuba print sale a year ago and now this from Brazil. This helps to fund our BurnMagazine …

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