Pure

there are marketers among us. "be sure with pure." Indeed

Dogwood Festival Parade

tiaras

Charlottesville Dogwood Festival

Dogwood Festival Parade

Members of the Ruff Ryders Motorcycle Club from Richmond, participants in Charlottesville's annual Dogwood Festival Parade.

broken green space

In nature, when colors occur, they are generally associated with sex or danger.
I am a black and white photographer, but often, b&w is unable speak to chromatic reality, to convey the sex, the danger, the horror, or simply the bad use of color employed in your average Mickey D's.
This 3+ million dollar municipal project did not have the benefit of our City's design review process.
It would look better in black and white.

(James Kunstler has a wonderful feature on his blog known as the eyesore of the month...)

broken green space

broken bees

Lived in peace with the carpenter bees until today. Sophie wouldn't walk outside for the buzzing. Final straw. Plugged bees holes in the rafter ends with steel wool.

broken forest

Paper companies make good neighbors, except for once every forty years when they visit with the heavy equipment and take the trees.

cedrus libani

After walking around at Montpelier, everything else is kind of a let down. Few places have the benefit of a meticulous renovation to an already lovely home, set on an expansive open piece of land, gracefully surrounded and contained by gorgeous old denizens of the plant kingdom. It has expanse and view, tasteful modest architecture and is beautifully maintained. It's spring and the air is clear and cool. What more could a person conjure to improve Montpelier today?--ATL

broken connection

between the electors and the elected. Palmyra, Virginia. Thousands of Fluvanna County voters petition their government. They petitioned twice, to no avail.

B. McKenzie has the story at the Daily Progress

broken creek

all the king's horses

all the king's men

broken serpent

waning gibbous

in the instant

Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
(twenty years)

Water Quality

There are individuals and organizations in our midst who carry our water, care for our water, work tirelessly to mitigate 400 years of colonization. Heartfelt thanks Deborah Murray and all her colleagues at the Southern Environmental Law Center!

Washington, D.C. April 1, 2009
A federal court has overturned a permit issued by the Corps of Engineers for a massive impoundment in King William County, Virginia that would have resulted in the single largest, authorized loss of wetlands in the mid-Atlantic region in the last 37 years. The U.S. District Court in D.C. ruled late yesterday that the Corps' finding that the reservoir proposed by Newport News would not cause significant harm to the environment was "arbitrary and capricious."--(read more)

stormwater

paving the mountain, armoring the river

Woolen Mills Road

Pictured above, Edna Holloway's garden spot
Join Victoria Dunham and Bill Emory for a walking tour of the Woolen Mills, 12-1pm, Sunday April 5. Meet at the Woolen Mills Chapel, 1819 E Market Street.
Tour is part of "Preservation Week 2009"

ETOH