Igloo Party!

Belmont Abbey College students, including Jessica Simons, left, pack in the final pieces of snow to complete an igloo at the school on Monday January 10, 2011. After the igloo was complete it was large enough to accommodate 13 seated or kneeling people.

Marielle McLaurin emerges from the nearly complete igloo.

Merry Christmas!

I rode around all over Gaston County photographing the best-decorated houses in town for the Christmas eve edition of The Gazette. I got some good tips and was able to find some truly impressive light displays.

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Easy Feature

Underneath a nearly full moon, Cliff Hale with Hatley's Sign Service puts the finishing touches on a sign on the facade of the new CaroMont Psychiatric Associates location in the Northridge shopping center on Friday November 19, 2010. The CaroMont Health facility is moving from a location in the professional building near Gaston Memorial Hospital.

This was an easy feature hunt. I found this across the parking lot shared with The Gaston Gazette building.

Sunday Stroll

Yakotus Speller, 9, from left, Makala Goodman, 13, Kayla Kinney, 12, and Dave Nunez, 13, walk on the Avon / Catawba Creek Greenway near Lineberger Park on Sunday October 3, 2010.

Summer Splash! (Again)

Lindsey Carrillo, 10, takes a slide into the water at Robinwood Lake on Monday August 9, 2010.

Summer Splash!

Making a splash, Satchel Perry, 5, dives onto a water slide set up in the front yard of his home near City Lake where he and brother Cassius Perry, 3, not pictures, were cooling of May 28.

NOTE: This photo won third place for features in the North Carolina Press Photographers Association May clip contest.

Snow Day!

Nate Foote, 8, front, and Max Nicholson, 9, sled down a hill beside Bishop Road on Saturday. Below: Elizabeth Weinstein tries to avoid hitting the family dog Prince Louis while sledding Saturday on a hill along Bishop Road. Bottom: an ATV rider turns doughnuts in the snow.

Moving the Wall

Surrounded in dust, Mike Jacobs with E.L Jacobs Masonry, inc. uses a grinder to remove mortar from bricks Monday during a project to demolish a section of the serpentine wall in front of N.C. Wesleyan College to make way for the new Northern Connector rout.

Jacobs, who's father worked on the construction of the original wall, stated that the bricks will be reused in the construction of a new section of wall alongside the Northern Connector.

The new section will be of equal or greater length than the original, preserving the wall's touted record as the longest Jeffersonian serpentine wall in the world.