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A Passion for Nature Nurtures a Photographer's Growth
What transforms a simple interest into a passion, a hobby into an art form, a youthful enthusiast into a professional-level artist? For 20-year old photographer Gordon Dimmig, his growth as an artist began with a love of the outdoors and the desire to visually record what he saw in nature, using picture-taking as a... Read More
Buffer Those Post-Holiday Blues With Learning
The holidays are over. The bangles, baubles, bells and bows packed up and returned to storage. The lights taken down and stuffed into boxes where, over an 11-month hibernation period, they will mysteriously metamorphose back into the byzantine coils and sticky tangles that drive previously mild-mannered holiday... Read More
Greetings of the Season
All of us at OuterBanksThisWeek.com want to wish you the happiest holiday season. However you celebrate this time of year, we hope you celebrate it well and pass the cheer on to the others around you and accept theirs back to you. It seems the time goes slowly as we anticipate the holidays, then it flies by once the... Read More
Dimming Days A Prelude To Holiday Glow
Mostly, I love this time of year. I am relatively impervious to the cold, so I don’t mind winter’s chill much at all. (Spend a few collegiate winters in Blacksburg, VA, and you’ll laugh at winter just about anywhere else you go south of the Great Lakes.) By Thanksgiving my preferred wardrobe with its gothic-inspired... Read More
But, wait! There’s more! Christmas Comes to Town, Part 2
Santa’s already out and about, there’s much too much to do and time’s a-wastin,’ so let’s get right to it. I’ll begin with a set of events that are running throughout the holidays before covering the festivities specific to the coming weekend.Each year The Elizabethan Gardens’ nightly WinterLights celebration just... Read More