defenestrated Ix building.
2010/11/18
2010/11/13
2010/07/30
Puget Sound
The first known overnight stay on Whidbey Island by a non-native American was by Catholic missionary, while traveling across Puget Sound, on 26 May 1840.
Whidbey Island
2010/04/05
closets
Somewhere along the line, people decided they needed closets. My 1890 worker house doesn’t have these nasty newfangled spaces. It has square rooms.
In North America, chests, trunks and wall-mounted pegs typically provided storage prior to World War II. Built-in wall closets were uncommon and where they did exist, they tended to be small and shallow. Following World War II, however, deeper, more generously sized closets were introduced to new housing designs, which proved to be very attractive to buyers. It has even been suggested that the closet was a major factor in peoples’ migration to the suburbs.–Wikipedia
2010/04/01
Liriodendron tulipifera
Tulip trees on the west side of Monticello.
This is an old tree. There is evidence it was planted April 16, 1807. I have five tulip trees to plant this weekend. This tree is 22 feet in circumference, the trees I am planting are 3/4 of an inch in circumference.
This tree affected many lives. One was my neighbor Mike Van Yahres grandfather’s. (Visit Monticello’s podcast section and search poplar for that story)
The tree was removed. Profound health issues. I am pleased that the grounds people are leaving the stump in place for awhile. It is a memorial.
See Patterson Clark’s excellent article in the Washington Post about tulip trees.
2010/02/04
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
The are lots of Blogger FTP users who will be seeing these words soon. Blogger-Google is busy wrestling the Chinese. I applaud that effort. Alas, they have made a bidness decision to no longer support folk who use the Blogger cloud software, then publish to their own domains via FTP I hate change! Please make a note, new address. Haven’t shifted over yet but the time is coming.
