Black and White – Page 162 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

Corrotoman River clouds

Looking toward Weems, Virginia

Frank

Frank Borden Hanes — a flurry of flickers, a flush of jaybirds and a squirrel. Always watching.

summertime

gin and tonic — Bombay Sapphire makes for crazy dreams

Datana contracta

datana contracta — while I was picking these critters out of my q. phellos I saw two wheel bugs hunting Japanese beetles.

day of rest

church Jarman's gap — resilient landscape

Southwest Mountains night sky

Southwest Mountains, night + CHO sky glow. — Southwest Mountains, night + CHO sky glow.

The Southwest Mountains of Virginia are a mountain range centered on Charlottesville, parallel to and geologically associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains, which lie about 30 miles (50 km) to the west. Some of the more prominent peaks include Carters Mountains, Fan Mountain, Brush Mountain, Peters Mountain, Walton’s Mountain, and Hightop Mountain.–Wikipedia

time machine

Stanley Lott — 2004, Columbia SC statehouse grounds. Stanley Lott

rabbit ears

13" cathode ray tube color — I had a plan to toss the rabbit ears, converter box, 13″ cathode ray tube TV and VHS machine.
Only to be blocked by memory and the soul in the machine.

City Council

matters from the public — I went to my first City Council meeting when I was 45 years old.

urohidrosis

foot of Monticello — Like all New World vultures, the black vulture often defecates on its own legs, using the evaporation of the water in the feces and/or urine to cool itself, a process known as urohidrosis. It cools the blood vessels in the unfeathered tarsi and feet, and causes white uric acid to streak the legs.Wikipedia