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Dreamland

2008-05-08T08:13:00.000-04:00

harbinger

2008-05-07T08:35:00.002-04:00

Harbinger-anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign.
Real estate agent walking the fields of the heartland?
Harbinger of cul de sacs,
an ominous sign.

Heartland

2008-05-06T09:17:00.001-04:00

D.W.Shifflet, front porch, Rosni Farm

The part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole, esp. a central land area relatively invulnerable to attack and capable of economic and political self-sufficiency.--Dictionary.com

Heartland

2008-05-05T08:56:00.002-04:00

Rosni Farm, Madison County, Virginia

Sing the rain on the roof on a summer night
Where they still know wrong from right.
Sing a song about the heartland.
Sing a song about my life.--George Strait

day of rest

2008-05-04T10:26:00.001-04:00

Heartland

2008-05-03T10:20:00.001-04:00

Madison County, Rosni farm, horsebarn and shop foreground, Walker's bottom background, view looking SSE toward Orange.

Sing about the way a good man
Works until the daylight's gone.--George Strait

Heartland

2008-05-01T10:46:00.001-04:00

There's a place where mornings are an endless blue
And you feel mother nature walk along with you,
Where simple people living side by side
Still wave to their neighbor when they're drivin' by.--George Strait

time machine

2008-04-30T09:56:00.002-04:00

The Washington Post is running an interesting series, about food v fuel
Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars
As farmers feed ethanol plants, a costly link is forged between food and oil.-By Steven Mufson
Where is Peabody when we need him, need the benefit of historic perspective?
Interesting times.
The picture today, some AP news from back in the fifties.
Read the Post, read the AP. The quality of reporting has improved.
What was the gas-bread comparison in 1951?

Jack Jasper

2008-04-29T10:08:00.000-04:00

Stretching barbed wire, 1976, Rosni Farm, Tom Clore and Dorsey Shifflet background, Jack Jasper, foreground.

time machine

2008-04-28T09:09:00.001-04:00

spring cleaning, running out of hard drive space. Archiving, deleting duplicates, downsizing, coming across old images, this from 1971.

Malcolm Holcombe

2008-04-26T09:39:00.001-04:00

Malcolm is halfway through a European tour. Working everynight
Where is the photo-credit? I guess the club forgot...

bag of beans

2008-04-25T08:55:00.002-04:00

The Lancaster County real estate tax system and land-use policy are structured to move the majority of Northern Neck natives off the water. Forcing people from their homes was not the primary design goal, but it will be the effect.
It's an old story. Similar displacement of population occurred on Hilton Head Island. As thorough as dropping a neutron bomb, the land will remain, but the people will be removed.
Fabulous multi-million dollar vacation homes will succeed the residences of local people.
Of course, the benefit to the county is tax revenue. The vacation dream homes offer a more robust source of funds for local schools than the modest residences they replace.
And the children of the County, thus educated, can move away from their heritage.
Go live somewhere else.
Have their birth-right sold for a bag of beans, a bowl of soup. Taxed out of their homes.

Some people rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.- 1958, Pretty Boy Floyd, Woodie Guthrie

Cute

2008-04-24T07:21:00.001-04:00

My favorite place to photograph is the Northern Neck of Virginia. In Virginia, the southern shore of the Northern Neck, bounded by the Rappahannock River, was the residential place of choice for native Americans. Europeans favored the northern edge along the Potomac. Time passes. The oyster and crab fisheries fail, but the land remains, relatively undisturbed.
Ah, but that was yesterday.
The Northern Neck recently has acquired a WalMart on the eastern end of the peninsula in Kilmarnock.
And now, the cute, Disney-esque mindset is starting to get traction. A giant cork-screw. Cute...

Photos of the Northern Neck here and here.

Green Pond, SC

2008-04-23T00:08:00.000-04:00

Kendrick Mayes' Jake

Providence,RI

2008-04-22T06:53:00.000-04:00

Providence to Pensacola, 1389 miles SW, miles left to go

into the future

2008-04-21T09:45:00.001-04:00

a derivative photo, man silhouetted by one of Ed Deasy's images at Charlottesville Photonight's presentation, March 21.

day of rest

2008-04-20T09:34:00.001-04:00

Vinyl is final

alfalfa

2008-04-19T10:33:00.002-04:00

Rt 220, South of Martinsville, Virginia

alfalfa-Medicago sativa.
The plant grows to a height of up to 1 metre, and has a deep root system sometimes stretching to 4.5 metres. This makes it very resilient, especially to droughts.--Wikipedia

Alfalfa- Carl Switzer, child star.
Switzer then allegedly pulled a knife and was attempting to stab Stiltz with it, but just as Switzer was about to charge Stiltz, Stiltz raised the gun and shot Switzer in the chest. Switzer died of intense blood loss while on his way to the hospital. He was 31 years old.--Wikipedia

giant sucking sound

2008-04-15T09:11:00.000-04:00

day of rest

2008-04-13T00:01:00.001-04:00

Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, Driggs and N 12th

Paul

2008-04-12T10:01:00.002-04:00

No, Paul is not crazy. He is a photographer. Photographers like to make pictures, not be in them.

giant sucking sound

2008-04-11T00:14:00.001-04:00

Big Paint

2008-04-10T10:13:00.002-04:00

40.01266N 77.538473W

Always ready to reinvent the wheel, I'd hoped to interview Mr. Malcolm Holcombe, didn't happen. Ran across this video by Studio South on Music Allies website, better than me asking my three questions.
Still, I hope to ask them.

home

2008-04-09T10:32:00.001-04:00

Triplets

2008-04-08T01:28:00.000-04:00

Manhattan Avenue