Short Pump, Virginia

Daily Grind

It's a warm spring evening, music night at the Daily Grind and one of Richmond's promising young bands, 17th & Main — left to right: Eric Fulcher, Brandon Linton, Kimberly Compton and Ben Slabach — provides the entertainment ...

... early in the concert sunset reflects off Kimberly's glasses. The evening quickly darkens and light from inside the Grind  ...

... illuminate Ben. His instruments this evening are violin, guitar and keyboard. Who knows what else he can — or will in years to come — pick up and begs the question: Will Ben ever meet an instrument he can't play? ...

... in one of the few pieces not written by members of 17th & Main Eric performs Justin King's incredible instrumental, "Knock on Wood" ...

... late in the evening Eric, left, and Brandon, right, jam ...

... while Brandon's son, Alexander, watches from his mother's lap ...

... it is standing room only as the crowd fills the sidewalk outside and the tables inside where Joyce, left, and Dianne, right, listen to the concert ... and mug for the camera.

Earlier in the Day

Carytown

We celebrate Kristi's birthday — albeit a week late — with lunch along Cary Street, and ...

Short Pump

... video conference with Lauren about a professional communications organization we are both members of.*

*All photographs but the last — a MacBook Pro screen shot — taken with a Canon 5D Mark II