Old Main Street dates to the 1800s. We saw Sally Mann at the grand Paramount. After, found stairs leading down to cellars and a hallway lined with bookshelves. Push on them and they reveal hidden rooms.

A speakeasy, with a bartender who quotes Epicurus in the original Greek.

#photography
#books

Stone Horse - Days 2 & 3 | Marginalia Most people think the captain is always the in charge. But there is a brief window every day, ordained by a certain alignment of celestial bodies, when a lowly deckhand is lifted to the pinnacle of im...

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Helped a friend move his new old boat from NC to Maryland. I caught up with him in Hampton Roads to change crews. Had two fine days traveling up the Bay. This is video and photos from that leg.

#sailing
#ChesapeakeBay

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Flowering Quince flowering.

#photography
#spring
#RuralSouth
#Equinox

Almost Equinox

There are direct connections between humans living in caves and welcoming with joy the sun and warmth returning, to Neolithic passage tombs, and whole civilizations oriented around the procession of the sun through the seasons.

#photography
#AstroPhotography
#spring
#SilentSunday

The auto-generated video preview is super lame, so here's some photos the give a better sense of what's in the tin.

Trick Door YouTube video by EyeInHand

Made a trick door to get to the basement. Regular door wouldn’t work. Odd size, nothing square, tight space. An old window weight and lever for balance so opens and closes with finger pressure. Fun and funky, but it works!

#DIY
#woodart
#oldhouse
#kineticart
#whimsy

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Turns out, hippies aren’t the problem after all.
Huh. . .
Funny how that works.

#signsofthetimes

Border Crossing

In the remote wilderness between Canada and the US, the boundary. No guards. No gates.

#photography
#landscape
#politics

Sea Islands 300 : Last Leg to Beaufort | Marginalia In the morning we have a flood tide to float us out of the Magic Kingdom. It’s even high enough to squirt us through a local shortcut and shave 10 miles off our last leg, saving roughly two hours. By ...

A much needed break from ICE-y weather.
Lots of photos of warmth and sunshine, welcome when we haven't been above freezing for going on two weeks.

Not used to this.

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Droogs

Corn Stubble, Snowy Field

#photography
#RuralSouth
#landscape

Where do we go now?

#photography
#SilentSunday
#Resist

Ten minutes to midnight.
Silo silo.

#photography
#nocturne

Skidaway to Hilton Head YouTube video by EyeInHand

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#sailing #lowcountry #video

Without photos and video, it would be hard to remember how peaceful this day was last spring.

#sailing #photography #lowcountry

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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Night Bus

All day rain
#photography

Some warm weather content for cold winter days.

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Cold Moon

Snowy Field
Scuffletown, Virginia

#silentSunday
#photography
#landscape
#RuralSouth

Beaver Lodge

Text over ghosted image of a robot face reads "What if they aren't hallucinating . . . "

#AI
#philosophy
#quantumreality

Path of skies leads past the forest, laden with snow along a wide field. Twilight and fog.

It's a gift is to look back and see the path that led you to see such beauty.

#photography
#ruralSouth
#snow
#winter

Old barns across a snowy field, with mountain in the distance and startling deep blue sky above.

Season's Greetings

#photography
#blueridgemountains
#ruralsouth