April 2022 – Black and White

Malcolm Holcombe

Malcolm Holcombe — driving the east coast.

Trip to Sirius NYC

in a radio station studio somewhere — Malcolm sings Mama Told Me So, a favorite of mine

Malcolm Holcombe website

James Madison trending

John Henri Isaac Browere life-mask bust of President Madison — Per request of Mr. Browere, busts of myself and of my wife, regarded as exact likenesses, have been executed by him in plaister, being casts made from the moulds formed on our persons, of which this certificate is given under my hand at Montpelier, 19, October, 1825.
James Madison.

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Browere’s Life Masks of Great Americans, by
Charles Henry Hart

Tilly on the soapbox

dog on a box — A soapbox is a raised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject. The term originates from the days when speakers would elevate themselves by standing on a wooden crate originally used for shipment of soap, or other dry goods, from a manufacturer to a retail store. – Wikipedia

day of rest

One Harbor Church, 214 Turner Street
Beaufort, NC 28516. Sermons.

quercus montana

chestnut oak — The reportage blaming lack of tree canopy on redlining 60 years ago is delusive. Anyone with a trowel can achieve 80% canopy in half that time. Planting trees is cheap and easy. The main requirement for establishing trees is belief in the future.

Callis Road

Millenbeck/Slabtown area — .

Jefferson Lodge #20

2009 Dogwood Festival
Gravitas

Love , Persephone and the lawnmower

CWT confronts the lawnmower — Persephone would take the lawnmower with her to hell every year but come April she’d bring it back.

CWT first cut — CWT always beat me to a first cutting in the spring. Before UVA/WTJU he worked for the County of Albemarle heading up a grounds crew.

Robin

doorway woman pearls — doorway of Virginia Starkes house, Woolen Mills Road.

touch

grandmother granddaughter — .