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Liberty and tulip tree
Published on Jul 7th, 2011
0 comments US district court for the western district of Virginia held session at Monticello July 4 and naturalized a group of new US citizens. There were a lot of Coca-Cola bottles and logos in evidence. (The...
Envy
Published on Jun 30th, 2011
0 comments I have envy. One of the dread Capital Vices, a.k.a. the seven deadly sins. Mine's traffic control envy. Every day, I bike through the 2nd Street/Northwood corridor of Charlottesville, a lovely...
Steely gazes
Published on Jun 23rd, 2011
0 comments On June 13, Citizens for a Sustainable Water Supply member and former school board chair Dede Smith announced her candidacy for City Council– in a park, under a tree, south of the tracks....
Manners
Published on Jun 2nd, 2011
0 comments Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.–E. Post~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo...
Ride of Silence
Published on May 26th, 2011
0 comments A second Ride of Silence took place in Charlottesville on May 18. This is a worldwide event held every year, 3rd Wednesday in May, beginning in 2003. Locally, the event is organized by cyclist Alan...
Politics
Published on May 19th, 2011
1 comments "In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal though they existed before we were born: that they are not superior to the citizen: that every one of them...
Point of Fork
Published on May 12th, 2011
0 comments Two rivers. The big one was known by aboriginal inhabitants as Powhatan's River; now it's the James. The other one is the Rivanna. Also the site of a Revolutionary debacle when, on the same day that...
Capra aegagrus hircus
Published on May 5th, 2011
0 comments Nigerian miniature goats Ella and Zinnia win a smile from two friends from Staunton with owner Laura Covert (rear) in their new home, Covert's yard in the Woolen Mills. Last September, City Council...
Platanus occidentalis
Published on Apr 28th, 2011
0 comments Sugar Hollow Road.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day at billemory.com/blog.
Incarcerate
Published on Apr 21st, 2011
0 comments 1. to imprison; confine. 2. to enclose; constrict closely.–Dictionary.com As part of the recent Preservation Week events, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society President Steven Meeks led...
Government knows all
Published on Apr 14th, 2011
0 comments “A governing body knows everything that goes into its legislative decisions whether it actually knows it or not.”~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day at billemory.com/blog.
53 MGD
Published on Apr 7th, 2011
0 comments Tandem Friends School students test Rivanna River water with technical direction and apparatus provided by Rivanna Conservation Society executive director Robbi Savage. The students canoed to...
Quercus alba
Published on Mar 31st, 2011
0 comments Received a box of bare root oak trees middle of last week from Musser Forests. Traveled to Slabtown to plant. (The Virginia Department of Forestry was out of white oak seedlings by the time I called...
Brick house
Published on Mar 24th, 2011
1 comments The house associated with the Rives Street store was torn down last week.~Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day at billemory.com/blog.
Ragged Mountain
Published on Mar 17th, 2011
0 comments Walked the trail around the Lower Ragged Mountain Reservoir in late January. Some signs of geotechnical activity. Thirty vertical feet of terrain to be clear-cut and submerged by new reservoir.~Bill...
Threading the needle
Published on Mar 10th, 2011
0 comments Motored back to Virginia Sunday, March 6. Sat still on Interstate 66 near Marshall Virginia in a driving rain as rescue crews reopened the highway. We were within seconds of this wreck. Virginia...
Gray Emory Coale
Published on Mar 3rd, 2011
0 comments My sister Gray was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer in November of ‘09. Gray never asked the Doctor about prognosis, never Googled. She went about her life. I had a lot of ideas early on...
The road to hell is paved with bradford pears
Published on Feb 24th, 2011
0 comments Michael Dirr was in Charlottesville February 10 to speak at the 28th Annual Central Virginia Landscape Management Seminar, presented by the Piedmont Landscape Association. In the morning, he gave a...
What is the city but the people?–- Shakespeare
Published on Feb 17th, 2011
0 comments My neighbor Roy (pictured here) recalls driving his aunt Emma Amiss‘ dairy cow from her house on Woolen Mills Road to the pasture on the south side of the railroad tracks via this lane. Back then,...
Sunrise
Published on Feb 10th, 2011
1 comments Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day at billemory.com/blog.
True Grit
Published on Jan 13th, 2011
0 comments January 3 City Council, Matters by the Public: "Hi, my name is Serena and I am here on behalf of dredging because even a fourth grader can handle this stuff. I think dredging is a good idea because...
Didelphis virginiana
Published on Oct 14th, 2010
0 comments New work on view at McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, This one's a personal favorite, "Juvenile," ink on paper, by Selena Hitzeman. ~ Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day at billemory.com/...
Chiclets and civic freedom
Published on Sep 23rd, 2010
0 comments We don't grow up saying that we are going to have to devote some part of our time to our civic duty. We grow up thinking that we are going to... have a job, we are going to have recreation, we are...