Black and White – Page 83 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

Flatbush Avenue

Major General William Tecumseh Sherman laid the cornerstone of the triumphal arch at Grand Army Plaza in 1889. According to one account, art critics did not approve of the final result.

o'Donovan/Lincoln, Eakins/horse — President Abraham (NMI) Lincoln sits his horse.

trigger warning

Neptune/Poseidon — This monument makes Matilda uncomfortable, she had relatives who drowned. She’d like to see it taken down.(Bailey Fountain, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)

Remorse in advance is efficient?

whitney front desk — Sign at the Whitney. I didn’t wait around for other wisdom.

Roberto

xxxxxx — On the roof of the Whitney, bright spot on a rainy day.
On religion. “All religions are the same. Do not harm anyone over religion.”–Roberto Monticello

Tony Matelli’s “Sleepwalker”

underwear man & schoolgirls — Tony Matelli‘s underwear-clad sculpture of a sleepwalking man was at the center of controversy on a college campus in 2014, with outraged students launching a petition for its removal. —Hili Perlson

(We are having a sculpture controversy in Charlottesville as well but underwear is not involved. People see different things in a statue. NYT had the story.)

Zenaida macroura

doves — (Print trays make good bird baths, edges are easily gripped.) It (the dove) is also a leading gamebird, with more than 20 million birds (up to 70 million in some years) shot annually in the U.S., both for sport and for meat. Its ability to sustain its population under such pressure is due to its prolific breeding; in warm areas, one pair may raise up to six broods of two young each in a single year.–Wikipedia

Bos taurus

cow in fog — angus fog

weather change

tree in fog — I’ve spent days this summer watering 398 whips, little trees, in the Tidewater.

weatherunderground — I made a moveable drip irrigation rig. Watered every two weeks. Nature is doing the work for me this week. Graph courtesy wunderground

Big Pharmacy

foo house — September 13, great discussion by the entrance corridor review board regarding proposed big box pharmacy which desires to locate at 1170 Emmett Street (southeast corner of the Barracks/Rt 29 intersection). The ERCB made comments based on the entrance corridor design guidelines and deferred the matter in hopes that the applicant will return with a plan that will complement the community.

Helen

emma reflected twice — walked north to the intersection of the St. John’s River and the Atlantic Ocean