Black and White – Page 52 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

Franklin sidewalk

Franklin wall provides refuge — October 2014, City Council voted to install pedestrian provisions and address truck traffic on Franklin Street. I wonder how that is going?

day of rest

pick mattress — not a whole lot to describe here. Asleep.

tailpipe

volvo 245 — Even back in 1988 this degree of tailpipe smoke was considered excessive.

gentrification

born to be wild — What happens to the poor people who get pushed out of the cities when wealthier people move in? 2008 discussion by Jim Kunstler.

scrap metal

scrap metal shop — in 1988 I had a roll of copper purloined. Went in search at the CHO scrap metal shop. What was lost was eventually found.

wet basement

reflecting pond — 897 gallons of water in the house

high water — Under normal conditions I can kayak underneath this boardwalk.

The bald cypress is fenced off, its a favorite of local deer. Usually it is high and dry.

Riverview Park

dogs walking their people — A dog will walk. No one complaining presently about the weather being hot and dry. This is a portion of the trail that circles Charlottesville.

Rivanna Renaissance

Rivanna River Woolen Mills — “The degradation of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem took place more than two centuries; it will take more than three decades to reverse. The newly signed Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement—with its clear, well-defined and achievable goals and outcomes, its flexibility to respond and adapt to changing conditions and its public engagement—sets the course and provides the watershedwide commitment to get us there.”–Nicholas DiPasquale, Director of the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program (left, DiPasquale paddling the Rivanna, October 1)
DiPasquale one of the speakers at today’s Rivanna Renaissance conference.

day of rest

xercise daily — River Road, Lancaster County, Virginia

The Cloud of Unknowing

these band members gave the band name as "The Cloud of Unknowing" — The Cloud of Unknowing counsels a young student to seek God, not through knowledge and intellection (faculty of the human mind), but through intense contemplation, motivated by love, and stripped of all thought. This is brought about by putting all thoughts and desires under a “cloud of forgetting”, and thereby piercing God’s cloud of unknowing with a “dart of longing love” from the heart. This form of contemplation is not directed by the intellect, but involves spiritual union with God through the heart:–Wikipedia