Black and White – Page 166 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

Overexposed

dreadfully overexposed but I like it regardless. These birds make me happy, big feet, big beak.

day of rest

blue trim — Mount Triumph B.C., Pastor Rev. Creal James, New Orleans

Matters from the Public

VMFA RIC — Are meetings where ideas go to die? Naw, they are entertaining.

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.