Last Sunday was a great day to walk around The Battery area in Charleston. After checking out the sea wall reconstruction work phase 1 and 2 that has been completed (see previous post about that), we walked around some into the nearby neighborhoods. Here are some of the things we saw.
In my SC State University Radio Production class I am asking the students to write a blog post and produce an audio recording of their five or 10 favorites. Favorite what you ask? The theme is music so the task is to share their favorite singers, bands, musicians, guitar players, rappers, etc. So to give the students a better idea what I'm looking for I am putting this together.
My Favorite Rock Bands:
I credit my wife Alesia for exposing me to this excellent group from California. She listens to Sirius XM's Alt Nation a lot in her car. I began to hear songs I REALLY liked by a group called Silversun Pickups that I had never heard of before. I have since heard so many of this band's songs that I like that on my Amazon Music tunes I have 17 Silversun Pickups songs. They have many, many songs that are so catchy and well composed with great vocals, guitar, drum and bass jams. Alesia and I saw Silversun Pickups in March 2020 in Asheville just before the world shut down due to the Covid pandemic. See my blog post on that awesome show!.
This is the first such open house event here since 2018. Check out my post from four years ago.
Here we are pictured in front of a fierce A-10 Thunderbolt, better known as the Warthog.
In the wars in Iraq, the A-10 gained fame as a tank killer. Armaments include the seven-barrel Gatling gun (or air cannon) seen just above Alesia’s lovely head.
Air Expo visitors got to see fly-bys of the military transport workhorse.
Early in the show, a C-17 flew by accompanied by a World War II transport plane. The size difference is something!
We were there last Sunday on a beautiful spring day. I will do a separate post on the other attractions but this one will feature a dozen of my photos of the high flying Blue Angels in their fast and furious F-18 Super Hornets!
In this first photograph the six pilots in their yellow helmets are ready to go. Enjoy the show. We did!
The destination was the Donnelley Wildlife Management Area down south a ways from Charleston.
It turned out to be an excellent day for seeing a variety of birds out in the wild. Alligators too.
We parked at the Donnelley entrance area to see if we could see any Wood Stork nests deep in the woods near there. The photo below shows a tree infused with Spanish moss next to Donnelley’s visitor’s center, which was closed on this day.
This spot was produced as a demo for one of my classes at SC State University. The music I selected is from the free music site Incompetech.
Click here to listen to the spot via Soundcloud.
Earlier this year I did a blog post as I neared completion of the manuscript. Click here to learn more about my latest book.
Below is a screen shot from Adobe Audition of the radio spot I produced. My voice is on channel 1 and the music is on channel 2. The music is titled "Burnt Spirit." I found it on the Incompetech website in the category called Eerie (of course!).
The popular three day event is a right of spring passage (spring welcoming actually) here in the Lowcountry. Some 250,000 people are expected and the weather should be ideal as it was Friday when we were there. Sunny in the low 70s, not windy = perfect walking and shopping conditions!
