Black and White – Page 151 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

Yes we can

south coast sign — A new phrase make its way into common use.

ISO 409600

available darkness — Westport River, walking at night. 1/50th second, f2.8

Hollywood Cemetery

Hollywood Cemetery — Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond Virginia.

star shower

The brightest single beam, at 0.4 mW, is below the 1.0 mW Class II limit — Took down the Christmas light, the infamous Star Shower, which sold out in Charlottesville retail locations last December.The brightest single beam, at 0.4 mW, is below the 1.0 mW Class II limit.

night rain

EG HP night — twins, east on Market, rain

Stacey’s domain

railroad right of way — Riding the northeast regional through post industrial remains.

Pottersville

Pottersville sign — The places we live naturally decline without care and feeding from residents and good work by elected government.

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

into the mystery

Mulberry Row — Let go into the mystery
Let yourself go
And when you open up your heart
You get everything you need.–Van Morrison

the sacred and the profane

headstone — Headstone in the oak woods near Jarman’s Gap road.

There are varying ways to interact with the natural world. The graveyard up top is in a harmonious interaction, an elemental gracious return to earth. And then there are the rest of us, the oafs. — There are varying ways to interact with the natural world. The graveyard up top is a harmonious interaction, an elemental gracious return to earth.
And then there are the despoilers. Same woods, same hill, different mindset.