Always treat your parents as if they are close friends who are soon to move to a distant land from where it will be impossible ever to
return. Never take them for granted, no matter how busy life gets. You can’t imagine your mother and father dying. And then they do.–Tony Parsons
Author: WmX
I stumbled off the track to success in 1968, started chasing shadows that summer. Since then, In addition to farm-laborer and newspaper photographer my occupational incarnations include dishwasher, janitor, retail photo clerk, plumber, HVAC repairman, auto mechanic, CAT scan technologist, computer worker and politico (whatever it takes to buy a camera.) I am on the road to understanding black and white photography.
my girlfriend and her dog
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth
unto those things which are before.–Philippians 3:13 KJV
creative 101
The rewards of technology for this Charlottesville Downtown Mall panhandler, several burgers from the nearby Five Guys.
Oculus
Charlottesville, Virginia, UVA Rotunda
2. Architecture . a circular opening, especially one at the apex of a dome.–Dictionary.com
day of rest
Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light–Pope Benedict XVI
flier
Statue was once on the edge of a cliff. Now it is in the middle of a plaza, trivialized by the flat pedestrian surround.
Lawyer and Professor
John Conover and Rich Collins are re-sworn as directors of the Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District. SWCD’s are political subdivisions which address natural resource programs.
This followed swearing of the Clerk of Court, CHO Council and school-board.
East High Street
There is not much display advertising in Charlottesville secondary to a sign ordinance. A few survive on East High Street.
nautical twilight
Walking southwest on the Rivanna right bank trail toward Monticello {left} and the Woolen Mills Village National Historic District.
In eight days the regional water and sewer authority board (RWSA) will vote on whether to locate a 53 million gallon per-day sewage pumping station in this park.
The following information is provided for Charlottesville, Virginia (longitude W78.5, latitude N38.0):
Tuesday
20 December 2011 Eastern Standard Time
SUN
Begin civil twilight 6:56 a.m.
Sunrise 7:26 a.m.
Sun transit 12:11 p.m.
Sunset 4:57 p.m.
End civil twilight 5:27 p.m.
magnolia grandiflora
Visited the Rotunda yesterday to see the magnolias that have occupied the gardens flanking that structure for a century. Has the fate of the trees been sealed?
Will Mr. Tom come flying out of the Rotunda when the chainsaws crank to bargain with the sawyers? Possibly he could have made tiny replicas of the Rotunda from the bull bay heartwood.