Friday, May 23, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Marmota monax
![](http://www.billemory.com/blogimg03/cma0818-groundhog.jpg)
Five digits on that hindfoot, ground-hog, wood chuck, whistle pig, agonistic sciurid didn't use the cross-walk. National bike week has ended. Daily near death encounters with cars for all concerned.
Labels: stilllife
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
attachment
![](http://www.billemory.com/blogimg03/ric086a6-jack-jasper-M.jpg)
Jack Jasper, main drive, Rosni Farm, Madison County, Virginia
I had no idea that I would become so attached to the world, to people, places and things, a debilitating level of attachment.
So much to remember.
Labels: agrarian
Monday, May 12, 2008
Sciurus carolinensis
![](http://www.billemory.com/blogimg03/cma0810-squirrel.jpg)
May 12-18 is bike week. For an exciting ride, cycle Route 250 from Park Street to the proposed YMCA location. Helmets a must.
Labels: stilllife
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
harbinger
![](http://www.billemory.com/blogimg03/RIC136B4-JACK-SAMUELS.jpg)
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.
Labels: agrarian
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Heartland
![](http://www.billemory.com/blogimg03/ric083b2-dws-porch.jpg)
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
Monday, May 05, 2008
Heartland
![](http://www.billemory.com/blogimg03/ric089c4-disking-on-hill.jpg)
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
Labels: america
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Heartland
![](http://www.billemory.com/blogimg03/ric079d6-rosni-aerial-silag.jpg)
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
Labels: agrarian
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Heartland
![](http://www.billemory.com/blogimg03/k577a2-ege-hsec-bike.jpg)
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
Labels: pastoral