1886

In Providence, there are several educational institutions surrounded by fences that have seemingly random dates bolted to the uprights. Huh? Alumni from Brown University or Moses Brown School please explain.

2010

High albedo. So it begins,

alchemy

creative locus now a place of memory

day of rest

untitled

down down down

abandoned road

ran into an image of Ricky earlier today, the dog who raised me. Color. Maybe tomorrow.

tautological

No resolutions. Habits are set. A race between time and turtle. Cue 1978. Same race. Different year.

return

Uncle Bill died this weekend, a good man. Earth mourns, heaven celebrates.

day of rest

time machine

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?

Highgate Cemetery

Ravens were sitting atop Samuel Taylor Coleridge's tomb.
"They buried him with a little bell, in case he should wake up and need rescuing," I said.
"Karl Marx didn't get a little bell, and you'll notice there are no birds on his tomb." I said.--Stephen Kuusisto

Highgate Cemetery

"Why are you taking us to the cemetery, Professor?"
I recalled D.H. Lawrence saying: "I like to try new things so I can reject them."
"So you can see how the Victorians pictured their place in history," I said.--Stephen Kuusisto

Time, the Avenger

RC, AWS, DWS, Rosni Farm, 1976

Time, time, hear the bells chime
Over the harbor and the city
Time, one more vodka and lime
To help paralyze that tiny little tick, tick, tick, tick- The Pretenders

anachronism

Cooper, Smith, Cartwright. The last names the only reminders of obsolete occupations. In the darkroom for the coming month, making paper prints without photoshop. Gasp! Practicing my dead avocation. Revelateur.

day of rest

( is there a way to have google search source code?)

thirty years

Last year

then and now

37 40.5 N 76 29.378 W standing on the shoulder of US Route 1, Interstate 95 visible to the west

March 18, 1958 the good people of Charlottesville voted in favor of the City issuing $500,000 worth of bonds to fund a new sewerage plant at Moore's Creek.

In 2006, for $500,000, a donor gets two folding chairs located on the court floor of UVA's John Paul Jones arena, opposite the team benches and along the baselines.

back back back

my thanks to Historian/photographer John Mason for finding this image in an old scrapbook and providing me with a reason to dive into 30 year old contact sheets, to find and scan...

Saul Bellow wins the Nobel Prize, Roots the #2 nonfiction book, Stevie Wonder awarded a Grammy for Songs in the Key of Life, Chairman Mao dies.

day of rest

day of incalculable sadness

how long

Started working at the farm thirty-one years ago today. Fourteen stairs going up, house four strides by seven.
I always did like to count.
Three hundred and sixty seven days ago we met with our neighborhood planner, and compared notes about the traffic that is battering the heart of our neighborhood.
I am counting vehicles today. Sitting motionless for twenty four hours putting numbers to a problem.

Dear City,
One decision and two signs would vastly improve our quality of life.
Is 23 years of asking for help long enough?
Thanks,
Bill

time machine

OH NOOOOO! Not 1980!