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Friendship Court
Published on Oct 16th, 2012
22 comments "There is hereby created the Placemaking, Livability and Community Engagement (PLACE) Design Task Force (PDTF) to act as an advisory body to the Planning Commission and City Council... charged with...
Fenestration
Published on Oct 5th, 2012
1 comments A side of the Gleason condo tower and the back of the Atlantic Coast Athletic Club show the juxtaposition of fenestration and the lack thereof. (The blank side of the ACAC may be a good place for a...
Brew crew
Published on Sep 29th, 2012
0 comments Attendees at the third annual Top of the Hops beer festival fill the nTelos Wireless Pavilion on Saturday, September 22, for an array of two-ounce samples of over 150 craft beers.~Commentator Bill...
Thoughtful graffiti
Published on Sep 24th, 2012
7 comments Recently seen at the free speech chalkboard in front of City Hall.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
WWJD
Published on Sep 17th, 2012
12 comments Historians and locals spend considerable energy asking what would Jefferson do (WWJD)? Jefferson aids that pursuit by his meticulously catalogued writings. Jefferson has been called the epicurean...
Scott Stadium
Published on Sep 11th, 2012
11 comments First home football game of the year, September 1.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Presidential visit
Published on Aug 30th, 2012
15 comments It takes a village to protect and coordinate for a Presidential trip.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at  billemory.com/blog. (ONLINE BONUS #1: More Bill Emory pix...
Sledgehammer
Published on Aug 20th, 2012
6 comments A Buckingham Branch employee sledgehammers slag off a new track weld between 1st and 2nd Street Northeast in Charlottesville. Dictionary.com lists no synonyms, but the word sledgehammer is derived...
Stealth bus stop
Published on Aug 8th, 2012
4 comments Through sensitive selection of signage, appurtenances and plantings, this Charlottesville Area Transit bus stop fits comfortably in a rural central Virginia neighborhood.~Commentator Bill Emory puts...
Hydraulic curiosity
Published on Aug 6th, 2012
28 comments Corner of Cedar Hills and Hydraulic Road. The trees in this part of town are disappearing, soon to be replanted along the grand boulevards of Stonefield. I suppose the trees in the Route 29 median...
Church ISO new home
Published on Aug 1st, 2012
5 comments The historic Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is a fine example of a rural church type that is fast disappearing from the county’s landscape; the last chance to preserve the structure is running out...
Headless
Published on Jul 23rd, 2012
2 comments Headless mannequins make me slightly uneasy. I guess the idea is to focus attention on the dress? Fifth Street Southeast.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/...
Young and creative
Published on Jul 16th, 2012
0 comments Photographer: "What is your name?" Sign-holder: "I am going to give you an alias: Mama Punkass. It is my Rainbow name. I go to Rainbow gatherings."~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly...
Independence Day
Published on Jul 7th, 2012
7 comments Independence Day at Monticello included famed gymnast Nadia Comăneci and a young girl with a flag. Missing, however, were the silhouettes of two house-hugging liriodendron tulipifera that have been...
A short history of America
Published on Jul 2nd, 2012
0 comments R. Crumb’s images made a cameo appearance at the Charlottesville City work session on land use on June 7. Originally, this image of landscape metamorphosis was in black and white and not set to...
Downtown Mall
Published on Jun 25th, 2012
15 comments Filed under Charlottesville.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Neighborhood model
Published on Jun 19th, 2012
1 comments My introduction to real estate advertising was an issue of Mad Magazine in the 1960’s. Honest to goodness, discover Treesdale. (Techniques outlined in the magazine seem to be in play here. Formerly...
Reenactor
Published on Jun 11th, 2012
0 comments reenactor (noun)– a person who enacts a role in an event that occurred earlier.–Dictionary.com The event in this case was local militia putting up light resistance as Banastre Tarleton...
Lost groundhog
Published on Jun 4th, 2012
15 comments This adolescent groundhog (aka woodchuck, whistle-pig) lost his/her home and family. Small comfort that it was to urban density and not to a percussive extermination tool like the Rodenator.~...
Veneer
Published on May 25th, 2012
0 comments Stone veneer being applied to a building on the “Shops at Stonefield” site.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Seasonal migration
Published on May 21st, 2012
0 comments UVA held its finals exercises Sunday, May 20. Walking erect, smart phones in hand, they leave. We are all so sad. Humans have a highly developed brain and are capable of abstract reasoning, language...
Ix
Published on May 14th, 2012
1 comments The Elby Brass Rock-Marching Band performs at the Closing Day Gala of the Tom Tom Founders Fest.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Eugene Bradbury
Published on May 7th, 2012
0 comments UVA professor Daniel Bluestone discusses residential and commercial architecture during a bicycle tour (over seven miles with at least 24 cyclists) of the Venable and Rugby neighborhoods on a recent...
Arbor Day
Published on Apr 30th, 2012
3 comments Charlottesville schoolchildren measure the circumference of a Quercus alba (white oak) at Forest Hills Park on Arbor Day, the last Friday in April.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly...
Long-range transportation plan
Published on Apr 23rd, 2012
0 comments "Cville Bike mApp project is a regional bike-mapping project developed by the Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization, in partnership with BikeCharlottesville, the City of...
Tom Tom Founders Festival
Published on Apr 18th, 2012
13 comments Beer, music, food, people, perfect weather, and a bear-in-progress (by sculptor Ed Miller), as the Festival kicked off on Friday, April 13 with a block party at the McGuffey Art Center.~Commentator...
Homo sapiens
Published on Apr 9th, 2012
3 comments Seen down by the Rivanna Trail. The shopping cart is a strong sign that a member of the Homo sapiens (knowing man) species is nearby.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day...
Seminole trail
Published on Apr 2nd, 2012
9 comments I received a request from China for pictures of Charlottesville, so I biked north via the John Warner Parkway to our “Main Street,” the curiously named Seminole Trail. (Why is it named that? No...
Light switch
Published on Mar 22nd, 2012
19 comments There was a City roundtable discussion about budgetary matters on March 21. It’s hard to take these meetings seriously after many years, hard not to be sarcastic. The public attends, and speaks...
Move-in
Published on Mar 19th, 2012
2 comments There are a vast number of residential properties around the former Martha Jefferson Hospital that were upzoned to B-1 during the time the medical center occupied the neighborhood. The houses had...