errors

Discontinuities in the software universe. Learned keyboard actions are not bringing about the expected result. Google's free publishing tool, Blogger, acting up.

fall

leaf- One of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.

day of rest

Orange County, California

madison county

rob amberg's llama

homegoing

Earnietown

Route 3, Lancaster County. At a bend in the road there is Earnie's Gas Station and Earnie's drive-in.

blue

Riverview Cemetery, Charlottesville, Virginia. I searched the name on this stone, hoping for clues regarding the inscription, came up empty handed.

Town Creek

day of rest

gazing ball

four horses

Erwin, Tennessee

19-23 south of Erwin

J Jeha

Sorry for the delay, but it's that demon life got me in its sway, as dear old Mickey used to sing.
The host. The voice of the host. The house that plays with the outdoors; the outdoors that inundate the house. Light and silence; trees and water; stars, planets, the moon. "We love by memory."
Sophie, Sophie, and more Sophie.

God's Poem Writer

God's Poem Writer, Harry Jerome Arnold

perfect

Alan Day and dogs.

day of rest

Mr. Huja's wisdom

Brenda Baltimore, 1602 Woolen Mills Road. Brenda's great-grandfather began work at the Mill in the 1850's

All cities contain areas, sites, or structures of architectural and/or historical interest or significance. Such structures and areas contribute to the particular uniqueness of each city and form an important part of that city's physical and cultural heritage which, if lost, cannot be replaced. The loss of its heritage deprives the city of its individuality. Unless means can be found to retain important structures and areas in urban areas, our communities face a future of historical and architectural sterility.

Historic Landmark Study, Satyendra Singh Huja, 1976

the force

There is a disturbance in the force.
The color to b&w ratio on dave's blog is teetering toward color.
The sisters are on different continents.
There are Nukes on the Korean peninsula.
Not necessarily in that order.

God's Poem Writer

God's Poem Writer, Harry Jerome Arnold

Woolen Mills Road

Following the death of his father in 1925, Woodie Franklin Pritchett moved from northern Albemarle county to the Woolen Mills village. In 1933 Woodie married Virginia Louise Baltimore of Woolen Mills Road. Early on, Woodie worked for the Charlottesville Woolen Mills. Later in life he worked for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. Woodie founded a neighborhood grocery on Culvert Road. He was a Trustee of the Woolen Mills Chapel. He raised livestock, he could fix anything.
Woodie's locomotive is shown in the opening scene of the 1956 movie, Giant.

day of rest

photo by Lyne Shackelford

there are many paths to the top of the mountain

Biblical

We are having a Biblical rain event in Charlottesville this weekend. The Rivanna rages. Fitting background weather for the Woolen Mills neighborhood. The neighborhood that has wandered in the wilderness for Forty Years.

Last night's opening reception for the Woolen Mills Road exhibit was sweet.
The guests looked at the material on display, that doesn't happen at openings.

Ovis Aries

Sheep were among the first animals domesticated. An archeological site in Iran produced a statuette of a wooled sheep which suggests that selection for woolly sheep had begun to occur over 6000 years ago. The common features of today's sheep were already appearing in Mesopotamian and Babylonian art and books by 3000 B.C.- Oklahoma State University

Mammalia Ungulata Artiodactyla Pecora Bovidae Caprinac Ovis Aries

Opening reception, 5-8PM, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society

waiting

more info

...

Whatever it is confronting you, let it be.

God's Poem Writer

God's Poem Writer, Harry Jerome Arnold

the small print

Tonight Charlottesville City Council votes on the Woolen Mills. The question is whether to put the convenience of cut through traffic above the needs of a residential neighborhood.

In May, Council agreed to open 4th Street across the downtown pedestrian mall and further, they made the street one-way. These actions were taken in response to the requests of the downtown business people. Council can respond quickly.

After a one year "study-period" Council will decide whether to make the 4th Street changes permanent.

Please, City Council, please let us have our neighborhood back for a year, make Franklin Street one way south between Market and Carlton Avenue and restrict trucks and cut through traffic.

Note: For those of you interested in analyzing aerial imagery. The photo above was taken July 11, 1957. It appears that Carlton Mobile Home Park and Sunrise Mobile Home Park are still hay fields. The Carlton Avenue industrial corridor is fully developed from Franklin Street to Carlton Road. Woolen Mills park, the Mill's recreational area south of the railroad tracks, still exists, hasn't yet been converted into an industrial park.
No sewage sludge smell- the RWSA facility has not yet been built.
North of the tracks it would appear that the only industrial encroachment into the residential neighborhood is one lot of junked cars on Harry Wright's property.
The following year, "urban-removal" experts, Harland-Bartholomew and Associates will craft a plan:

January 6, 1958
Mr A.C.Coleman, R.M.Davis, Thomas.J. Michie, Louie.L. Scribner and Sol.B. Weinberg present. Mr David J Wood addressed council, presented ?the Workable Program for Urban Renewal? as prepared by Harland Bartholomew and Associates.
An ordinance entitled ?An ordinance amending and re-enacting the code of the City of Charlottesville of 1945 by the addition thereto of a new chapter numbered 35 and entitled ?Regulations governing the subdivision of land within the corporate limits and within three miles of the City of Charlottesville?and replacing section 1 through 5, inclusive of the subdivision regulations, which are part of chapter 33, Code of the City of Charlottesville 1945 entitled ?Zoning?? was offered by Mr.Scribner, seconded by Mr. Weinberg, and carried over to the next meeting for consideration.
This plan lays the groundwork for the destruction of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood and the introduction of "Industrial zoning" and multi-family zoning north of the railroad tracks in parts of the Woolen Mills neighborhood that will not be annexed until 1963!

humans

sat at a table of humans, a rare delight