"A Place to Sit: Waiting on the Dock", taken with a Canon 5D camera, Circa 2007: Digital painting, drawing and other manipulative methodologies.

When I knew I'd be permanently moving to Lake Gaston, I asked a cabinetmaker friend of mine to build me 4 custom Adirondack chairs out of the hardest and most indestructible hardwood he could find. We custom-fit the chairs and stools, enlarging the width of the arms and modifying the angle of the backrests, which were extra high. Eventually, my friend selected "ipe" for an incredibly dense wood stock. When finished, each of the chairs weighed more than 75 pounds. They will sink if they fall off the dock, but they didn't budge an inch during the last passing hurricane.

This particular chair was sunbathing when I took its picture against the vivid fall colors of a gumball tree. The chair didn't seem to mind,

"A Place to Sit: Waiting on the Dock" became the November, 2008 cover for Roanoke Rapids' Daily Herald, The Lake Magazine.