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 . . . .

THE CREDIT CRISIS EXPLAINED: We’ve put giant subhuman apes in charge.

Knoxville, Tennessee. The Farmer’s Market.

Knoxville, Tennessee. At the Farmer’s Market.

Knoxville, Tennessee. She says she’s Tennessee’s only licensed raw-milk cheesemaker. I bought some sheep’s-milk Cumberland. It was excellent. Blessed are the cheesemakers! Er, and all dairy workers, of course. . . .

Knoxville, Tennessee. Across the street from the Rescue Mission.

Knoxville, Tennessee. At the Farmer’s Market.

Knoxville, Tennessee.

UPDATE: Reader Sean Malloy emails: “After watching your photo posts for the past couple of months, I now have to get one of these lenses. Damn you!” It’s the Nikon fisheye.

That’s Commerce Clause god Brannon Denning on the left. For fun, I dummied this picture up on Photoshop like a double-page profile spread in Vanity Fair, with the caption “Brannon Denning Wants You To Care About the Commerce Clause. And He’s right.” Followed by a discussion of beer and the Commerce Clause, a surprisingly important subject, actually. Yes, I am a geek. But you knew that.

Knoxville, Tennessee. Heirloom veggies — lumpy but yummy. At the Farmer’s Market.

Knoxville, Tennessee. I was afraid to walk past it for fear that I’d trip . . . .

Asheville, North Carolina. Best alternative caption for yesterday’s photo: “We can’t drill our way out of this problem!”

Knoxville, Tennessee. The view from the dentist’s chair. Not my most artistic work, but it captures the feeling of the moment . . . .

Knoxville, Tennessee. Central Ave.