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Using an LED flashlight to create a starburst effect.

Not a lot to say about this picture of a spoon except to look very closely.

The checkerboard pattern of pavers outside of the historic Seaboard Building at Slover Library in Norfolk, Virginia.

Using the GestureTek interactive floor the Slover Library to promote the Midnight Society kids reading program. As you walk across the floor the fog parts to reveal the Tell-Tale Heart.

Norfolk Public Library has 210,000 additional volumes on shelves at its Administrative Center in Norfolk's Industrial Park. There's not enough room on the shelves at the NPL branches for the vast collection. All of these are catalogued and can be requested by any patron. This isle has photography, art, architecture and other nonfiction books. Some real special books on these shelves.

Today marks the 136th birthday of General Douglas MacArthur. On my way to and from work I walk by the memorial bearing his name. Like most heroes and great leaders, he was a complex person. William Manchester's biography entitled American Caesar suggests that "MacArthur was an analogue of Julius Caesar, a proposition he supports by noting their great intellect, brilliant strategic generalship, political ambition, magnanimity as conquerors, and shared tragic flaw of hubris." One of my favorite management quotes from the great general is "You are remembered for the rules you break."

The amazing light fixture and vaulted ceiling in my office at Slover Library in Norfolk, Virginia.

My Harmony remote is in control during the NFC Championship game.

Today is National Handwriting Day so slow down and use the ultimate work processor, an elegant fountain pen.

Mr Sherlock up close and personal.

The Tide light rail at the EVMC/Ft Norfolk station.

Good advice for anyone in the Mid-Atlantic states this weekend. Come on by the Slover Library, we have plenty of reading and movies.

Day 19 - One of Norfolks Mermaids on Parade, "Norrie Folk" located at Norfolk's City Hall.

Catching up on my 366 posts. Kisses in the late afternoon sun.

Waiting at CostCo tire center in Norfolk Va.

Caught these bare winter trees and their harsh shadows against a bright yellow wall in the late afternoon sunlight.

A nice morning from the Slover Library 6th floor terrace.

My old fashion alarm clock with a pure phosphorous based glow. No ambient light present.

240 calories for one soda, yikes!

This is my Dark Magic II 67 gram yo-yo featuring a solid spin axle system with a responsive bearing allowing even a hack like me to do yo-yo tricks like a pro.

A winter sunset silhouettes the American Rover a 135 foot, 3 masted topsail schooner based at the Waterside Marina in downtown Norfolk, Virginia.

A jar of dog biscuits bungee corded to a cast iron fence with "for all my pals from Roper" written on top.

Got to see Joe Bonamassa in concert for the 6th time tonight at the Sandler Theater for the Preforming Arts in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The all acoustic evening includd an eclectic group of professional musicians, including Tina Guo, Chinese cellist and erhu player whose repertoire stretches from classical to heavy metal; and Hossam Ramzy, Egyptian percussionist and composer who played with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant on their No Quarter: Unledded tour.

Artist Luisa Adelfio talks about creating Slover Library's first art exhibit. From an article at Hampton Roads.com The exhibit, “Collective Memory,” is a forest of paper scrolls, wound into columns and covered with passages from the epic poem “The Odyssey.” The exhibit, with some columns as tall as 12 feet, will be on display until mid-January.

Pure Romance comes to Norfolk.

Today was my brother Mark's birthday. Family and friends joined him at the Yardhouse in Virginia Beach to celebrate.

Slover Library in Norfolk, Virginia glows like a jewel at night.

Meet Cooper my new first cousin once removed. Five month old platinum mink tonkinese.

Frick and Frack a.k.a. Sasha & Sherlock in a rare awake moment in the middle of the afternoon.

The Owl of Minerva Takes Flight in the Dusk by Steffen Dam (Danish,b. 1961) was acquired in 2015 by the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. "In one of his most ambitious projects to date, Dam created a cabinet of curiosities, or Wunderkammer, and filled it with imaginary glass specimens. Then he perched a faux-owl on top, looking down over his collection. Such assemblages of natural and cultural curios became popular in the mid-1500s and, like minimuseums, were meant to delight viewers while increasing their knowledge about the world. Although Dam says that none of his fanciful forms can be found in nature, perhaps a life surrounded by the sea has summoned jellyfish-like creatures from his imagination." from Chrysler, The Members Magazine, Fall 2015

Hope's on clearance. — at Pier 1 Imports.