Sunday, 28 November 2010
View south-southeast across the mouth of Sandusky Bay.
We discovered (well, really: RE-discovered) that from the lighthouse in Marblehead you can see Cedar Point*.
Not Russia.
We’re talking Ohio and Lake Erie….
* WikiPee says the Cedar Point amusement park dates from 1840. Whew!
FOOTNOTE: Téo has become Téo Two.
TECH NOTE: Maybe do the operating system upgrade to version 4.2.1 later.
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
A few of you Gentle Readers may remember when this building was actually a post office. Then I remember enjoying a series of outstanding breakfasts here (much better than steam-table dorm food, ya see)….
It’s now East Lansing’s Dublin Square eatery and bar. Of course…yes, we drank Guinness.
Thursday, 28 October 2010
I spent a fun day exposing social science schoolteachers from around the state, in Athens for a conference, to the ArchaeoBus, with a great crew of ArchaeoTenders. We even had two who said they’d seen the Bus at the Georgia National Fair earlier this month, who were excited to be making a return visit!
I got bonus family time at the end of the day, driving back to Big A-Town with the Budding Scientist…great!
And a super-bonus James-chili meal, too!
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
We saw this house in Darien with the low early morning light just right. We passed by again in mid-morning and it was meh, so I was especially happy we caught it when we did!
I always wonder what might be found under porches like this, where the dogs, kids, chickens, and cats (maybe rodents, spiders, and palmetto bugs, too!) would hang out, and the floor-boards might let stray objects drop into the darkness.
Saturday, 16 October 2010
We wandered today beneath Spanish moss, around interesting historic and prehistoric archaeological sites on St. Simons Island, off the Georgia coast at Brunswick. The various tour guides had us looking down—at building foundations, historic cemeteries, Indian mounds and more—and I also took the time to look up at the moss…gently swaying in the breeze.
Thursday, 14 October 2010
The ArchaeoBus people have put together a scrapbook of the ArchaeoBus’s history (it’s now in its second year!), which includes some thank you notes from kids who’ve toured it. I loved this wee drawing….
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
We spent the day volunteering with the ArchaeoBus exhibit of the Society for Georgia Archaeology at the Georgia National Fair.
The short version: the ArchaeoBus is really cool!
Friday, 1 October 2010
Too much to write about today!
The highlight was definitely socializing and dining with MBG (and Miss V)!* MMmmmm. And getting a preview of the soon to be defended and signed off on (I am very sure) diss of the lovely M. So very exciting! And such excellent research!
G loved loved loved Teddy, aka Téo (some call it an iPad), and made many excellent drawings! She’s a charmer!
On the way to our dinner engagement, we detoured through the pleasant hamlet of Georgetown OH, which is inland and uphill from the Ohio, and took a few pictures of the US (born Hiram Ulysses) Grant boyhood home; however, the big excitement in town was clearly the county fair. We left town southbound, but took old US 68, which was almost too scenic for words….
* For reasons too complicated to get into, you’ll all have to settle for this hand-written sign added to the back of a delivery truck we saw in, I think, central Ohio somewhere rather than a picture from our evening fun. Ah, that fine Midwestern humor.
Monday, 6 September 2010
Doesn’t this architecture (and setting) just scream New England?
Love the color, too, but a city-person choice rather than a farmer choice, I think….
From the weekend….
Friday, 20 August 2010
Frame your yard with a low decorative brick wall. Positon one section under the shade of a modest magnolia. Revisit in several years. Look for shade- and moisture-loving colonists. Grab a cold one. Come back in several more years. I’m wondering how old this particular colony is, maybe three decades?
Now you know how lichenometry works.