Tag: April 2011
Easy Riders
Dressed in old-fashioned tweed and argyle, the members of Mobilians on Bikes gather outside at the Oakleigh Garden District’s Cream and Sugar. They arrive on 10-speeds and clunkers,...
An Ode to Oysters
Long before French vessels plied the waters of Mobile Bay, Native Americans pulled millions of oysters from its clear waters. When European explorers arrived, they found enormous...
A Mollusk’s Life
Ralph Atkins II oversees a kingdom by the sea. The world may not be his oyster, but oysters are his world. “It’s all I know how to do,...
Functional Sculpture
“Call me John B., ” smiles my bespeckled host from behind an outthrust hand. There’s no pretension here. Tan pants, denim shirt - working man’s garb.His workspace, ...
Colorful Movement
While JoAnn Cox dabbles in other genres, abstracts have always been her passion. She creates colorful, bright acrylic paintings, but what admirers may not know is...
A Nest Full of Daughters
Max Rogers, lucky man, is constantly surrounded with females. The popular ob-gyn cares for women all day, then returns home to wife Mandy and five girls,...