Seat of Ease There are things to be said for indoor plumbing. Snow fall last night. This dog’s idea of heaven on earth, walking in the mud and water looking for food. Four hundred years ago a long leaf pine (pinus palustris) forest stretched from here to Texas.
Eva and Matilda Jackie, the Gadsden County Times front office manager, would shriek when my lab-mix, Line, looked her in the eye. “Get that yellow-eyed dog to quit looking at me.” Jackie would not enjoy Eva’s gaze…
uneasy marriage It struck me this morning that the park I walk through owes much of its existence to successive technologies. The streetcar technology (smokestack above) has been abandoned. The other technologies that undergird this public space are sewage collection and high voltage electrical transmission. Rivanna trail, winter weather. Geology and topography have graced the park with a river. So far, in our political wisdom, we have discouraged building in the river’s channel. The industrial and the natural features maintain an uneasy balance, remarkably it feels like a park.
take a deep breath walking in the New River morning fog east on Whitethorne Road from T.K.Adams dairy to my 8×32′.
hottest month I’ve been told that typically July is the hottest month in the year in Virginia. I welcome August.