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

Water Street

south water street edge Tuesday — Tuesday this was the south edge of Water Street

Thursday edge of Water — In the 48 hours between Tuesday and Thursday the city had the trees cleared.

multimodal path City walk — The City is hoping to establish an off road, 10 foot wide multi-modal path between downtown and Meade Park in the Woolen Mills. The path and the fence (to keep pedestrians off the railroad tracks) have been planned for years. This is a section of the path and fence adjacent to “City Walk”. The scarified area pictured above will receive treatment similar to this in City Walk in the coming months.

How best to handle the commons, the City owned right of way throughout town, 156 miles of street?
Tomorrow, the City is holding a community engagement event for the “Streets That Work” project that will address this and other questions related to streets.
Be there!

Streets that Work Public Input Meeting – Saturday December 13, 2014
City staff invites the public to be a part of the process and come out to its Streets that Work Public Input Meeting. Please join us on Saturday, December 13 from 8:00 am – 11:30 am at the Carver Recreation Center Gymnasium to share your ideas and join the conversation.

quercus prinus

chestnut oak leaf — chestnut oak

seven busses seven riders?

Transit Center Water Street — busses waiting for riders

CVS Health

CVS Counter signs — “Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is simply the right thing to do for the good of our customers and our company. The sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose – helping people on their path to better health.”–CVS

Simply the right thing to do? On my way from this, the front counter, to the pharmacy counter in the back of the store there is an entire aisle LOADED with candy. What percentage of the people who walk through the portals of CVS are obese and/or diabetic?

screenshot with a telephone

Sabrina Rubin Erdely — Sabrina Rubin Erdely pictured. RollingStone contributor.

Pictograms

some kind of warning — Bear crossing? Bears bearing little bears. Flying bears? #IHatePictograms.

Julian Day and Kobasanta

not exactly sure what kobasanta is — Today is Julian Day Number 2456997. Kobasanta is ready. Don’t know JDN or Kobasanta? Just as well.

last last picture show

regal six closes — Charlottesville Downtown has two theaters that don’t show movies and a third, pictured, which recently shut down. The theater is being remodeled, but its a long breath hold until it reopens.
Vinegar Hill
Stonefield

quercus palustris & Canis lupus familiaris

Sophie cruising Market Street — falling rain and leaves

Virginica O

Virginica O dusk, Bertrand — SEXUAL PHASES IN THE AMERICAN OYSTER (OSTREA VIRGINICA) During the past three years there has been an accumulation of evidence which indicates that in at least three of the so-called dioecious species of the genus Ostrea a change or sex frequently occurs from season to season or between early life and full maturity. It may be recalled that at least ten of the more than sixty described species of the genus are regularly hermaphroditic and larviparous. Some of these exhibit a rhythmical sequence of alternating male and female phases…W.R.Coe Biological Bulletin
Vol. 63, No. 3 (Dec., 1932), pp. 419-441