Black and White – Page 22 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

SocGen Malcolm Holcombe

Malcolm Holcombe NYC

lunch group

dogs on a wall — Tilly, Celeste, Arthur

Phoebe

dog in window — Neighbor dog Phoebe, side view. Beagle, beautiful voice, the dogs of my childhood. On the farm Lurtie called them beetles.

Rivers

Tilly has a defined route in the morning. One stop is visiting with neighbor dog Rivers.

3 dogs — Running by the river, on occasion we stop and make the acquaintance of new canines

A swim followed by rolling in the dirt provides a capstone experience.

Robin

Robin standing in a clone of the Wye Oak. Until 2002 the Wye oak was believed to be the largest white oak in the continental US

Robin standing in pajamas, photo by her beloved uncle Austin.

the walk

tri-x turtle — Fast or slow you get there

twins on beach — great fun walking with another person

sometimes with friends

sometimes with parents

hold hands, sing, eat the rainbow, swim the seven oceans, walk the ridgelines, find a place

beach — do it all before the expiration date.

scooters

dead scooter — I have never ridden a scooter. Can someone tell me about scooters? I see them abandoned in all manner of desolate places. Are they abandoned because the batteries have died? When you rent a scooter does it inform you of the battery charge level? When the battery dies does the machine stop abruptly? If a user repeatedly parks a scooter in forbidden places (blocking sidewalks) do the scooter companies have the capacity to block the user from renting?

Liriodendron tulipfera

The tallest individual at the present time (2021) is one called the Fork Ridge Tulip Tree at a secret location in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Repeated measurements by laser and tape-drop have shown it to be 191 feet 10 inches (58.47 m) in height.[4] This is the tallest known individual tree in eastern North America.–Wikipedia

First tulip poplar leaf I’ve seen unfurled this year.
Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards sale April 15

Industry remnants

smoke stack water tank — Woolen Mills technical improvements.
The Woolen Mills Historic District encompasses a village central to the history of the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County since a mill opened there in 1829. Located at the foot of Monticello Mountain, along the Rivanna River, Woolen Mills developed into one of the city’s and the region’s most noteworthy industries, producing cloth for military uniforms from the late-19th century through the 1950s. Although many of the company mill town’s early factories are now vanished, its brick mill buildings of the late-19th and early-20th centuries remain, as do brick and frame houses in a range of styles built during the mid-19th through the early-20th centuries for or by mill employees. Home to generations of families who worked in its mills, the village was annexed by Charlottesville in 1963. The Woolen Mills Village Historic District’s period of significance begins with 1847, the date of the earliest company-built housing, and ends in 1962, the year the mills closed. At the time of its listing, the historic district still evoked a late-19th century industrial village.–VADHR

Rivanna Trail

Trail next to the river in Charlottesville, a good idea, solid execution, a favorite of the people.