Knoxville, Tennessee. The Crown & Goose, in the Old City.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Upstairs at the newly reopened (after nearly 30 years of closure) S&W. And here’s a landmark many old Knoxvillians will recognize.

And the old S&W didn’t have a bar, but the new one has two. Progress!

Plus, a friendly, upbeat staff!

Quincy, Illinois. Taken with the Panasonic Lumix LX-3.

Knoxville, Tennessee.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Getting ready for Sundown In The City.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Another picture of the deflated credit ape. Poor guy; it’s kind of sad.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Gay Street, at lunchtime.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Krutch Park, downtown.

And after:

GRAND CAYMAN, BWI. For when only an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent stylist will do . . . .

GRAND CAYMAN, BWI. The blonde blur in the foreground is a waitress named Fiona from New Zealand; after seven years her Cayman work visa is about to run out (more on that topic later) and she’ll be moving to Sydney to be a personal trainer.

Grand Cayman, BWI. Morgan’s Harbor.

Grand Cayman, BWI. On the North End.

THE VIEW FROM MY WINDOW, 6:20 a.m. this morning.

Knoxville, Tennessee. On Market Square, taken yesterday when the Insta-Daughter and I were downtown for the Rossini Festival.

Knoxville, Tennessee. The Downtown Grill & Brewery.

Asheville, North Carolina. Looking like a better choice every day. . . .

Knoxville, Tennessee. In the era of hope and change!

Knoxville, Tennessee.

Farragut, Tennessee.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Naples Italian Restaurant.

Farragut, Tennessee.

Grand Cayman, BWI.

Grand Cayman, BWI. This is Lauren, a dive guide, who’s from New Zealand. When she posed, I asked her to “look intrepid.”

Grand Cayman, BWI. This is Georgetown Harbor, and as I mentioned earlier I did a couple of dives — Eden Rock and Cheeseburger Reef — within one or two hundred yards from this site and the reefs looked good.

Grand Cayman, BWI.

Grand Cayman, BWI. Bob McManus wrote asking for a picture of an “offshore tax haven.” That would be the whole island, I think, but most of that kind of thing goes on in these fairly unremarkable buildings in downtown Georgetown.

UPDATE: Dan Mitchell on why tax havens are good for the global economy. More here and here. (Via, er, Dan Mitchell, who also has a book on tax competition and why it’s good.)

Grand Cayman, BWI.

Grand Cayman, BWI.

Grand Cayman, BWI.

My Bar, Grand Cayman. Shot handheld with the Panasonic LX3.

Grand Cayman, BWI. Fidel Murphy’s Irish Pub.

Grand Cayman, BWI.

Asheville, North Carolina. Some Althouse-style cafe-photoblogging. No, I haven’t been back there — this is from the weekend trip last month.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Near the UT Student Center, on the site of the Ernest & Ellis Drug Store, which provided a memorable hangout for generations of students long before my time.

Asheville, North Carolina.

Knoxville, Tennessee. The bar at the Northshore Brasserie, where we had an excellent faculty happy hour last week. Taken with the Lumix LX-3 that I was talking about yesterday.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Tree in front of Sophronia Strong Hall on the U.T. campus. Taken with the Panasonic Lumix LX3, advertised as the pocket camera for digital SLR owners. It’s a very nice camera with a very nice lens.

Asheville, North Carolina.

Knoxville, Tennessee. At the Student Center (that’s the law school building in the background), where there was no visible mob voting. There was a TV truck, too, but things looked pretty sedate.

Ashevile, North Carolina. The Grove Arcade.

Asheville, North Carolina. The Insta-Wife, in a photo taken by the Insta-Daughter.

Asheville, North Carolina. Electric cars are very popular here. Detail below.

Knoxville, Tennessee. The Medical Arts Building, downtown.

Maryville, Tennessee. Lemon Grass restaurant.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Spanish-American War Memorial, at the Old County Courthouse.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Detail from the statue of Justice at the federal courthouse.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Some people wondered if I was making up the Reasonable Ron’s motto. As you can see, I was not.

Knoxville, Tennessee. The solution to the credit crisis, courtesy of Reasonable Ron’s Used Tires. (Motto: “The Best Place in Town to Take a Leak.”) Well, it’s better than putting giant subhuman apes in charge, anyway . . . .