Icarus shed

which witch, T-111, boy, falling

empty

Single occupancy vehicle

Drove home to the snow covered south. Making that big carbon footprint. 686 miles, I95, I84,I81, I64. 587 pounds of emissions. Takes 91 trees to offset. I'm covered. I'd ride Amtrak (316 lbs) but dogs are not allowed.

day of rest

Sunday shattered when a truck impacts a Mill Village house.

Treed!

Moore's Creek

Some of the land being considered for protection by means of conservation easement as a stream buffer for Moore's Creek

The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority will unveil the area's water supply plan tomorrow night. It is a good plan.
Part of the plan will necessitate what the EPA folk call wetlands mitigation. The wonderful thing about how this is playing out is that it looks as if our local riverine environment and the viewshed of Monticello will both be improved by this project.
Charlottesville City Council member Kevin Lynch has a great idea how to accomplish these improvements.
RWSA is holding a Public Outreach Meeting 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at Monticello Highschool, tomorrow, Tuesday April 17.
Please attend and support the water supply and mitigation plans.
The mitigation plan would help address one of our significant local "impaired waterways."

this is Moore's Creek just upstream of where Jefferson would cross on horseback and, 70 years later, Woolen Mills Village residents would cross by footbridge

Of the three segments listed for fecal coliforms, the one with the
smallest watershed, 35 mi2, is that of Moore's Creek (which has 6.37 miles that are listed
as impaired, from the intersection of Rts. 29 and 1106 to the confluence with the Rivanna
River). In spite of its size, it is a diverse watershed which reflects the diversity of the
Rivanna Basin.
-tjpdc.org

ELC ME AKES

techNOlogy

Drove to Quincy Florida home of my favorite newspaper job. Would post pictures but silica based technology has failed. Laptop hard drive making cement mixer sound. Must fall back to home, make repairs.

tea leaves

On the road. Greeted by this computer screen two days running.

Bille Mory

In debt to the French.

Last month it was their machine, the da Vinci Robot, taking bad pieces out of me. This month they are sending me web traffic, 40 visitors yesterday.

How, in French, do you say:

"hey French people, come paint my house!"

Note- the nude photographs get more visits...

all things in time

Eventually we all take to bed, in a season of fear and need.
As it is always a time of fear and need so it is always a time to comfort and give. Somewhere in your community your consideration can ameliorate pain. Participate in that exchange.

anatomical position

remembering lbj

bill, blackbird and sister morphine

bodhi tree

poised on the ridgetop, parked under a load of excrement, sitting beneath a tree, a moment of awareness

imho

the Arab oil embargo in the 1970's hastened the demise of many a fine Detroit cruisemobile.

Wish we could resurrect this metal and send all SUVs to an early grave.

fire

I know two people who've been burnt out. They live deep in the country. The fire department couldn't travel fast enough.

(Richard Morgan at NorthernCrown is hosting the 7th edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival!)

industrial silvaculture

I am used to seeing pulpwood cutters working with rolled up sleeves, chain-saws and pickup trucks.
Biking through the Mattaponi watershed, saw my first tree snipper. I wonder what the silvaculture industry calls this item? The Annihilator?
Looks like a mechanized Hercules beetle.
The Anni grabs a tree with clamps, guillotines its subject at ground level, then loads the log on a truck. One two three.
There are laws that govern resource extraction.

C. If the State Forester finds that any owner or operator is conducting any silvicultural activity in a manner that is causing or is likely to cause an alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any state waters resulting from sediment deposition presenting an imminent and substantial danger to (i) the public health, safety or welfare, or the health of animals, fish or aquatic life; (ii) a public water supply; or (iii) recreational, commercial, industrial, agricultural or other reasonable uses, the State Forester may issue, without advance notice or hearing, an emergency order directing the owner or operator, or both, to cease immediately all or part of the silvicultural activities on the site, and to implement specified corrective measures within a stated period of time.

Has this law ever been applied?

hepatic insult

EYE:FLUSH IMMEDIATELY W/LARGE AMOUNTS WATE15MINUTES.EYELIDS SHOULD BE HELD AWAY F/EYEBALL-ENSURE THOROUGH RINSING.GET MEDICAL ADVICE IF PAIN/REDNESS CONTINUES.SKIN:WASH EXPOSED AREA THOROGHLY W/SOAP&W ATER.REMOVE CONTAMINATED CLOTHING PROMPTLY&LAUNDER BEFOR REUSE.CONTAMINATED LEATHER GOODS SHOULD BE DISCARDED.IF IRRITATION PERSISTS/SYMPTOMS DEVELOP,GET MEDICAL ATTENTION.HIGH PRESSURE SKIN INJECTION S ARE SERIOUS MEDICAL EMERGENCIES.GET IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION.INHALATION:REMOVE-FRESH AIR.IF BREATHING IS DIFFICULT,ENSURE CLEAR AIRWAY&ADMINISTER OXYGEN.***

Had an industrial accident yesterday, prolonged skin exposure to an organic solvent. I can't multitask. By the time I got around to it, washing the exposed area, removing contaminated clothes, skin was burning.

Didn't call the poison control center, in the same way people with a chunk of NY strip lodged in their airway don't ask for help, embarrassed.

Liver working overtime. Brain sluggish. Slept the rest of the day.

9/15/06 Update, heard from the Kafka fan club in Seattle, she said the quote is:

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still,
and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
== Franz Kafka (1883-1924)