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As promised I was able to fire up the Don Tomas Cameroon Collection Perfecto No. 2 Saturday afternoon. Just a word about this weekend in Jacksonville, Florida. This is the weekend for the Florida Gators vs. Georgia Bulldogs football game, aka World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. Woe is me, if you do not have a […]

Yesterday I spent a few minutes going through my humidor and planning out which stick will be reviewed next. I have settled on a Don Tomas Cameroon Perfecto No. 2. The weather here has been great. I will torch this stick this afternoon and try to post the review this weekend. The list below are […]

I want to vent on the price of gasoline. Weeks have gone by, New Orleans is slowing rebuilding, oil rigs in the Gulf were to be up and running a couple of weeks ago, but the price at the pump is still floating around $3.00 a gallon.
What’s up with that?!
The scary thing is the […]

I usually reserve my project category for photo projects, however, I think it is appropriate for a website face lift. I have had frhendrix.com for a couple of years and never invested time into making it a real site. Over the coming weeks/months I will work on providing a genuine website that forms a starting […]

Not real sure who gave him his nickname but that’s what we called him for as long as I can remember. He lived behind my papaw and mamaw on the other side of the hollow, Cherry Street, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Every year we visited my moms parents in Knoxville, he would walk down the hollow, then […]

Ok. The weekend is over. My kids have gone home. Her kid returned to college. The two week old invitation for dinner to my parents and brother for my world famous spaghetti dinner is over. All’s quiet. Been feeling like dirt crap shit for a few days. So bad I haven’t wanted to smoke, that’s […]

I have always been fascinated with early American history, particularly the very beginning of our nations journey into freedom.
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis offers a glimpse into several moments of our struggle to define ourselves as a fledgling nation.
The first chapter was a very slow read. Trust me once you get through it […]

Today I put the torch to a H. Upmann 2000 No. 7 Habano cigar I purchased at ABC Fine Wine & Spirits for $3.99 a stick.
Here is an except from the distributors, Altadis, U.S.A., Inc. about the H. Upmann 2000 brand:
“H. Upmann 2000 cigars feature Habana 2000 wrappers, a smooth, reddish-brown leaf created by […]

I will begin posting an informal review of the cigars I smoke during the month. I have been smoking cigars for about 20 years or so. I gave up smoking cigarettes after my first child was born in 1983. I continued smoking a pipe or cigar usually a few times a month.
I now smoke about […]

Against my better judgment I am posting a PSCS actions trick here. The photo below was taken from the Fuller Warren Bridge a few weeks ago. I ran a PSCS action to add the film effect.

On the same date I took several pano images from the same location. A low res image can be […]

[richard is listening to: Throw It All Away - Default - Elocation]
Mom has a few hanging baskets full of flowers on her back porch. This is a Wax Begonia from one of the baskets.

I walked around the yard several times and captured a few good images. I also made a stop at the bridge and […]

This image was taken on Big Talbot Island at low tide. It was a beautiful day.

technorati tags: beach, digital camera, images, photography, photos, camera

[richard is listening to: Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing - Chris Isaak - Forever Blue]
After updating my blog with several themes I have settled on this beautiful theme provided by jowra.
For whatever reason MS IE is not translating the css correctly for the gavatars plugin in the comments section. For now IE users will […]

[richard is listening to: Stone Groove (featuring Joe Sa - Boney James - Pure]

This image was taken yesterday afternoon near my parents home, at a place everyone calls the bridge. I will post more images from yesterdays walk on my foto blog here blankmindfotos. This site is a test site for a new installation of […]

I took this photo about a block away from the Lady and Sons as we walked around the city waiting on a table.

technorati tags: camera, digital camera, images, photography, travel photography

I have settled on this design for blankmindblog. Basically it’s a copy of Relaxation with a few personal tweaks… I like it… May work on the header image a bit…