Sunday night the moon was spectacular – almost, but not quite full, with enough of a terminator line to highlight features on the lunar surface.  I grabbed my camera and Celestron C90 telescope and headed out to the front yard to snap a few shots.  I...

In case your Cyrillic is rusty, the title of this post is from Psalm 104, “Praise the Lord, O My Soul”, and is one of the pieces that make up part of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil.  This weekend we performed the piece with the Greenville Chorale on...

File – Paddling South Carolina Rivers (KMZ, 1.5 MB) Google Earth has been one of the best resources for planning river kayaking trips, especially on new routes with which I’m not familiar.  I’ll scan the route, locate put-in and take-out points, and...

Kayakers – 3 Weatherman – 0 This makes three trips in a row where there was an iffy weather forecast. In each case, if we had followed The Weather Channel’s advice and canceled the trip, we would have missed out on a fantastic day of paddling. ...

I headed out early for my kayaking trip on the Enoree River this morning, with the intent that I would get breakfast in route somewhere. I didn’t have to meet my fellow paddlers until 9:30, so that gave me plenty of time. I knew there were several...