fauna – Page 13 – Black and White

Branta canadensis

downtown mall — Friday morning, snow quietly begins in Charlottesville

Riverview Park, Saturday. — Saturday was another story. Cold, snow blowing.

I ran into some folk on the Rivanna trail wearing snow shoes.

woolen mills chapel — Skiers from Fifeville

playing with gravity — Non-city sanctioned, recreation in the street. My favorite aspect of a snow storm, bipeds reclaim the commons, temporarily people, rule.

C&O CSX Buckingham Bramch — C&O railroad bridge, Moores Creek. Anyone know what year this was built?

snow load — Woolen Mills roofs, Alexander, Milby, Hudson, Timberlake…

snow shovelers walk the street — Momentary uptick in entrepreneurial activity.

Gallus gallus domesticus Rhode Island State bird

Monument in Adamsville — In 1925, the Rhode Island Red Club of America donated funds for this elegant monument to the Rhode Island Red in Adamsville. (The monument is now on the National Register of Historic Places.) Rhode Island is one of only three state birds that is not a species native to the United States.–Wikipedia

there is a rule for everything

headed into the Baylor Grounds — 4VAC20-720-60. Day and time limit.
A. It shall be unlawful to take, catch, or possess oysters on Saturday and Sunday from the public oyster grounds or unassigned grounds in the waters of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for commercial purposes, except that this provision shall not apply to any person harvesting no more than one bushel per day by hand or ordinary tong for household use only during the season when the public oyster grounds or unassigned grounds are legally open for harvest.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to harvest or attempt to harvest oysters prior to sunrise or after 2 p.m. from the areas described in 4VAC20-720-40 B 1 through 17, and 4VAC20-720-40 B 19 and 20. In addition, it shall be unlawful for any boat with an oyster dredge aboard to leave the dock until one hour before sunrise or return to the dock after sunset, and it shall be unlawful for any boat with a hand scrape aboard to leave the dock until one-half hour before sunrise or return to the dock after sunset.

Columba livia domestica

1992, took Frankie to Richmond. Pigeon road trip.

then and now

CHO front yard 1989 — In previous times one would see front yard displays, nostalgic dioramas in praise of the past. Concrete deer, wagon wheels…

I wonder if the front yard curators continue to feel the need to include the deer? — Do front yard curators continue to feel the need to include deer?

panthera leo

chained lion, pedestrian mall — Before political correctness came to town. 1989.

Meleagris gallopavo

Meleagris gallopavo — ran into this group of turkeys yesterday on Jarmans Gap Road. A verbal bunch.

web architecture

spider night — orb-web spider.
Unlike most arthropods, spiders have no extensor muscles in their limbs and instead extend them by hydraulic pressure–Wikipedia

Cyprinus carpio haematopterus

koi in St. Louis — The outside world was not aware of the development of color variations in koi until 1914, when the Niigata koi were exhibited at an annual exposition in Tokyo.–Wikipedia

anisota senatoria

yellowstriped oakworms in situ — University of Florida has an excellent write-up about these critters.

q palustis w/ egg cluster — They tend to lay egg masses on the lower leaves. So if you were able to inspect a few thousand leaves…

3 versions of same thing — Hoping the Charlottesville downtown mall isn’t beset by these. They particularly like q. phellos.
Differences between instars can often be seen in altered body proportions, colors, patterns, or changes in the number of body segments. —Wikipedia