Secret Message by ocoee53
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Fresh Start
 Hi, my name is Charles. I live in Tennessee, but I grew up all over the US. Photography has been a strong obsession for a long time, an obsession I'm happy to have. It is one of the best ways I have to communicate. Â
 I consider myself to be a Tennessee native who had the misfortune to be born in Detroit. My family, going back for generations, are from Tennessee. Dad was in the Navy, so I grew up all over the country. He used to save his vacation time and take 60 days off every two years. We would take long, sweeping trips across the country, spend a couple of weeks with family in Tennessee, and return by a different route to see more sights. He left the Navy and we returned to Tennessee when I was 14, and I spent my High School years at Midway High School, just south of Kingston. Most of my family are centered in Chattanooga but I spent a lot of time all over East Tennessee. After a stint in the Air Force in Denver, I wandered the West for awhile, then came back, married and spent nearly 20 years in Polk County. I put down roots there, something I had never done before. After my divorce, I moved to Kentucky ten years ago. And I still miss my home in Polk County.
 Kentucky is a beautiful state, and I got serious about photography after moving here. After looking so closely at this part of the state, I think of it this way; if you removed the vegetation it would look like southern Utah, with it's great sandstone mesas, cliffs, arches and canyons. I love the wonderful old forests here, but if you want to reveal it's rocky heart you have to work at it.  Oh, and I like dogs.
Update: As of August 2011, I have moved back to Tennessee. It's great to be back!
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Comments (8)
flora-crassella
a very nice Wasp Spider! Great photo!!!!!!
tennesseecowgirl
Truly amazing.... wondered where you had been... I am glad you now have an external hard drive... we all spend so much time and effort and gas money and miles and other things to get these wonderful shots, and it only takes minutes to back them up but so many of us don't take that extra precaution and then when we do lose those precious photos there is not a lot to do about it but learn a very hard lesson... sorry you lost so many photo I have been there myself... Great work on this one.
clbsmiley
NICE!
knupps
So strange....but I love it. Great capture.
durleybeachbum
The message is clear...'don't imagine you will ever understand me completely'. Marvellous macro. Hideous to lose pics and stuff you need/treasure.
Erestorfan
A master weaver to be sure! Excellent work by both you and the spider. I'm sorry you've lost some of your pics and some important documents. Been there, done that and Mike always keeps our systems backed up. It's so important!
whaleman
I've never seen anything like this, it is so unusual at least to me!
Meisiekind
Won't you look at that!!! What a wonderful and secret code this must be!! Amazing find and capture Charles! So sorry about your loss of pictures! I think it has happened to all of us at some stage! Since my episode I back up regularly on my portable!!! :)