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.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Today’s pop-up shower came early and surprised me. Usually they arrive in the mid- to late-afternoon. Today’s was noon-time-ish.
When I checked the garden early, however, it was still damp from Monday’s evening downpour, yet I’m very glad to have more precipitation. Still, most of the tomatoes are being lost to squirrels and black scummy mildewy nastiness that gets inside them.
So, to distract you (and me!), here’s a picture of Ek’Balam, a famous lowland Late Classic Maya archaeological site on the Yucatan Peninsula. I was there seven years ago today. In the foreground is the ballcourt. Beyond the trees is the highest structure in the civic-ceremonial center, and is the part of the settlement where tourists are welcomed. The residential area, however, expanded outward, I dunno how far.
Sunday, 18 July 2010
Back in the 1930s, New York separated trains from the streets along its west side by building thirteen miles of elevated tracks to reduce the accident count and improve delivery efficiency. The tracks opened in 1934, and especially moved foodstuffs.
By the 1950s, long-distance trucking was reducing the flow carried by the elevated trains. In 1980, the last train rolled; it carried frozen turkeys.
Today, the remaining elevated route is a park called High Line; the first section opened last summer.
Gotta mention the water tanks. Survey the New York skyline and you will see them, and many will look like ancient wooden technology made like huge barrels. Are they still commonly made? Installed?
