One of the 49 states from last week...

Austin Langley, 11, of Flower Mound, throws snowballs with neighbors in a nearby park after snow stopped falling on January 9, 2011. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)


Brad Burel, of Flower Mound, adjusts the hat on his daughter, Haylie, 5, while spending some time at a Flower Mound soccer field during wintry weather on January 9, 2011. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)

A rainy, victorious New Year's Eve in Memphis

I spent New Year's Eve in Memphis with my road trip companions, roommates and best friends. We were in Memphis to watch our UCF Knights (not Golden Knights) play Georgia in the Liberty Bowl. UCF won 10-6; earning its first postseason victory in program history.

Post-game: Beale Street was a river, thus hampering New Year's celebration. The Knights winning was enough for me.

Oh, yeah, and in 38 hours in Memphis all I ate was BBQ.

Officer Smith

Jakisha Jones, a member of the Arlington Police Department Honor Guard, stands during the burial service for Arlington Police Officer Jillian Smith at Moore Memorial Gardens in Arlington. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)

You can read Selwyn Crawford's story here. A video complied with a mix of still and video imagery by Ron Baselice, Jim Mahoney and myself, while edited by Ahna Hubnik, can be viewed below. The video segments consists of portions shot on a DSLR by Baselice and on an iPhone 4 by myself. I chuckled in appreciation of "mojo" journalism when I was asked, as my first assignment upon returning the DMN, to shoot video on the iPhone.

Rewind to Brooklyn

Note: It is 75 degrees and sunny in Florida right now. So, allow me to say that it is a little strange to think we where watching the snow settle in Brooklyn from our roof just a week ago...





...okay, the time home in the sun may continue now.

Happy Floridays

I suppose this is where beach and street photography meet, at the corner of A1A and Las Olas Blvd. Street photography really isn't my thing, but I spent part of this afternoon cruising down the coastal highway known as A1A.

South to Port Everglades

...from the Yankee Clipper area of Fort Lauderdale Beach at 3 a.m. Went to the roof to view the eclipse.

Welcome home

...if only for a short time.



What came first, the ramp or the palms?

Orange Peels from "half the summer that I spent In the wilderness, playing soccer and kissing girls"

_ _ _ _

My time in NYC/Long Island is winding down, and quicker than I thought it would. In a couple weeks I'll return home for the holidays before moving back to Dallas for a second internship with The Morning News. This will be my first time spending more than a week at home since my freshman year in college. Fishing, camping with my brother and father, fried Mahi sandwiches with mom at Bahia and lounging in the sand will likely be highlights of my time home in South Florida.

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Cheers,

Andy

A postcard from the North Country

I spent Thanksgiving in Massena, located in New York's North Country, with close friends I've known since college. We ate way too much, seemingly on the hour, while consuming a proper amount of hard Apple Ciders.

The cold weather reminded me of my Florida upbringing with temperatures between the 10s and 30s.

Saturday morning we found ourselves driving into a ditch, and getting stuck, while taking "the shortcut" through the beginnings of Adirondack State Park. Heavy snow started to fall as we left the house for the city. Turns out we got to the fork in the road at Lake Ozonia Road before the salt trucks did. After 30 minutes in the ditch, keeping smiles the entire time, we were pulled from the ditch by way of kind travelers and an old pickup truck.