November 2016 – Black and White

planes, trains and automobiles

river flying into MSY airport — Are small children still proud to be able to spell Mississippi?

near Pulaski VA — Wildfires burning in North Carolina and Virginia smoking up I-81.

Sciurus carolinensis

silver maple grey squirrel — The generic name, Sciurus, is derived from two Greek words, skia, meaning shadow, and oura, meaning tail. This name alludes to the squirrel sitting in the shadow of its tail–Wikipedia

Ovis aries

human with sheep mask — Palmer Park, another Sunday afternoon in New Orleans.

Esplanade Avenue

artifice — Junction box art.

MSY Witness

Jehovah's Witness — Jehovah’s Witness, Louis Armstrong International Airport.

Not. One. Inch.

Emancipation Oak, photo by Moncure Chatfield-Taylor — Hampton University has a three-word message for the Virginia Department of Transportation: Not. One. Inch.
And they mean it.
They do not plan to give up a single inch of land or blade of grass to make way for the planned expansion of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel and the widening of Interstate 64 adjacent to their campus.–Kerry Dougherty, Virginian-Pilot

Read more about the living history of the Emancipation Oak

Literary reference

trump pinocchio sign — There were a few Trump signs in this neighborhood.

halfway to helpful

Charlottesville downtown mall — halfway

killing frost

oak leaf on the ground.

winter is coming

fig leaf detail — underside of a ficus carica leaf. The first killing frost will fold this beautiful structure.