Saturday Trip to Durham

We took a trip up to Durham Saturday to get a quick photo of the Liberacion Juice Station at the Durham Farmers Market. The owner heard about my friends Loida, Rosario, and Viridiana who have undertaken a hunger strike, demanding a meeting with Senator Kay Hagan because they will not take a single bite until she co-sponsers the DREAM Act, and was inspired to name a tonic in their honor. If you happen to be in Durham on Saturday morning, pass by the farmers market to pick up a glass of "D.R.E.A.M Solidarity Tonic" and show some support to someone who has greatly supported us in our endeavor. We also stopped by another one of our favorite establishments- Gugelhupf.

Liberacion Juice Station

D.R.E.A.M Solidarity Tonic

Near the entrance to the Farmers Market

At Gugelhupf

Downtown revisited

Some more shots of downtown Durham, NC.

American Tobacco

Remind me never to ask for their men's room...

Hide and seek

Indeed

So I was walking by the pharmacy on Main St and I heard some loud barking. Turns out this Great Dane was keeping the peace from his perch :-)

Catch up day!

So just because I haven't been posting, doesn't mean I haven't been shooting :-) I'll try to catch up on the backlog of photos, but while you wait, you can always find more at my flickr page.

To start things off, here are some shots from today in Downtown Durham.

One of my favorite reasons to be downtown: Toast

Some bent trees

Under the bridge

Durham Station and the NC Mutual building behind

View of the old Ligget & Myers Tobacco warehouses, now renovated apartments

BP Service Station

Here are a couple of shots from the BP on the corner of University and Blackwell in Durham. The attendant was pretty cool. As I was finishing up fueling my car, he came out and said "Hey man, you a photographer? You need a shot of me?" Hahaha, sweet :-)

Spring Blossoms

I love this tree from the park near Forest Hills in Durham! It just stands out from the rest of the scenery so much.

Downtown Walkabout

Some shots from walking along Ramseur and Chapel Hill Streets. Downtown has some pretty great architecture, more posts coming soon on the rest :-)

Sadly, the South's Greatest Book Store is now for sale.... Although its bizarre "Alphabetical by Publisher" thing is not something I'll miss....

The Durham Station with part of the downtown skyline

Durham StationNC Mutual sign and the fountain/pond

Closed Shop

So I've been derelict in posting the past couple weeks. Things have been pretty busy and I was out sick for a bit, but here's my attempt to make up for the lack of posts :-)

Here are a couple of shots from University Drive in Durham near where I get my car serviced. These buildings have been closed up for as long as I can remember, but it looks like there's a nice car stored in the back of one of them....

Old Bull

So apparently this whole daily post thing will take me a while to get into, let's hope this isn't an inauspicious start :-)

Part of the American Tobacco Campus in Durham has an illuminated sign that reads "Old Bull" with a Lucky Strike chimney and water tower in the background. Here are a couple of shots from Wednesday and Thursday of the campus facing south from Ramseur St.


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