Black and White – Page 184 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces

BRC worksession April 28 — Mayor Signer and Vice-Mayor Bellamy are briefed by City Manager Maurice Jones. April 28th the Charlottesville City Council met in work session to hammer out details of a resolution to be considered May 2 at their regular session setting up a commission.
The resolution is available on the City’s website.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that City Council does hereby authorize the creation of an ad hoc blue ribbon commission on race, memorials and public spaces and tasks the commission with the mission to provide Council with options for telling the full story of Charlottesville’s history of race and for changing the City’s narrative through our public spaces;

hurt paw

ouch — dropped a rock on my foot

Ohio

Country Crust Bakery — 4918 State Route 41 S, Bainbridge Ross County, OH. Not the part that Chrissie Hynde sang about.

vulpes vulpes

dead fox — collateral damage, fox kit, struck in the road, made it to the sidewalk

Plan 6010

Tom Tom Street That Work — Student from UVA Architecture School attaches a text block to an oak on Garrett Street.

early motor age

old gas station — Perkins Hollow

strategy

garden at Monticello — How do trees decide when to leaf out? Do natives know better when to produce leaves?

indigenous fruit

pawpaw — The paw paw is the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States. Asimina triloba has had numerous local common names including: wild banana, prairie banana, Indiana banana, Hoosier banana, West Virginia banana, Kansas banana, Kentucky banana, Michigan banana, Missouri banana, the poor man’s banana, Ozark banana, and banango.-Wikipedia

Rappahannock

looking toward the Bay — View from Norris Bridge toward Windmill and Stingray points.

3:59

window — Fly away. Window at the Florida State Hospital, a hospital and mental institution in Chattahoochee, Florida.

clocks — Victor Licata, axe murderer, was housed here. He slayed his family in 1933 influencing the idea that marijuana causes criminal insanity.–Wikipedia