Black and White – Page 169 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

truth in advertising

bacon! — true that

ground fog

groundfog railroad tracks — snow + warm front = groundfog

Sophie and Reggie

Sophie and Reggie — Sophie used to find Reggie every morning. Now it is a struggle for her to walk the distance to Reggie’s house. We drove over for a reunion.

without fear of hematophages

winter woods — last year I got fed on by my first tick March 1. Not a problem in 2015. This pathway is in the floodplain of the Rivanna River.

Cabell Hall

troopers and Secret Service on the roof — State troopers and secret service scan the UVA graduation crowd, 1981. George Herbert Walker Bush was in his first term as Vice President. Can’t remember what he talked about that day.
I have squirrels on my roof sometime.
If you can dig up text of the speech, please send my way.

little brown birds

finches? — True sign of being a geezer. Enjoying birds more than live amplified music.

sign spinner

mannequin — Mannequin- n. 1.
a styled and three-dimensional representation of the human form used in window displays, as of clothing; dummy.
Two years ago there was a real human spinning the sign, now they have a dummy.

got work?

E Market Street — did anyone call? Wondering if this method panned out.

Failed jetty, Town Creek

What damages the boards, time + Teredo navalis? (the naval shipworm, not really a worm…)

30 x1028 px box — Photoshop everywhere, some places more obvious than others.

Keysers Cove

stream in winter — Bernard had the cove dredged in the 60’s, built a little boathouse for his similarly sized dead rise. Years passed. The cove got shallower, Bernard got older. Geese took over, Bernard died. Wind blew all the water away. A polite snow fell. Tomorrow it all starts over.