05.30.2004/22:17

49 Downing Street
Greenwich Village.

05.30.2004/22:15

Photographing Ave Maria
Steps of Our Lady of Pompeii church, Carmine St., Greenwich Village.

05.30.2004/22:13

Fly the flag
American flag at intersection of Commerce and Barrow Streets, Greenwich Village.

05.30.2004/22:08

Modern towers
Construction of two new Richard Meier-designed modernist apartment towers on opposite corners of West and Perry Sts. in Greenwich Village has stirred predictable level of controversy.

05.30.2004/10:46

Sidewalk Marking
Charles Street, Greenwich Village.

05.29.2004/13:05
Something good from the garden
I realized today when I was out watering the yard that I not only like having fresh tomatoes during the summer, I also really like the smell of the tomato plants themselves.

05.29.2004/11:23
So what is it?
Exactly what kind of rodent-oid creature is this?

05.28.2004/20:26
Why?
Why a duck? Oh... Viaduct!

05.28.2004/17:12
Look!
Window shopping in Tokyo.

05.28.2004/07:17
Ooooh
Oh, yes, this morning my stiff neck is so much better.

05.27.2004/18:26
Ouch
My neck hurts.

05.27.2004/07:32
Venus
The Venus Transit is coming!

05.27.2004/07:19
Primate business
More jobs for my town.

05.26.2004/17:36
Imagine that!
This may possibly be the most stunning piece of news you see today.

05.26.2004/17:34
Low-carb doughnuts?
Is it oxymoron, or is it brilliant marketing? The low-carb doughnut.

05.26.2004/11:44
Derelict London
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
derelictlondon.com

05.26.2004/11:18

Eisemann Center
Main lobby of Charles W. Eisemann Center in Richardson, TX.

05.26.2004/11:17

Irving Arts Center
Lobby of Irving Arts Ceneter, Irving, TX.

05.26.2004/10:36
Great camera!
A truly astounding new camera.

05.24.2004/21:37
Mac Pie
A slice of paradise.

05.24.2004/21:34
Wanted, Alive
"The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says living turtles are worth nearly three times as much as dead ones because of the tourism they attract."

05.23.2004/06:54
It's Alive!
Parts of New Orleans' 1984 World's Fair live on.

05.22.2004/19:09

Helicopter Logging
Helicopter logging along U.S. Highway 90, near Houma, LA.

05.22.2004/19:07

No High Rises
Garage sale, Calhoun St., New Orleans, LA.

05.22.2004/19:05

New Traffic Lights
New traffic lights awaiting deployment in rural Iberia Parish wear ghostly shrouds of protective covering.

05.22.2004/19:03

Phone Books for Poor Clare Nuns
Telephone directories delivered to St. Clare's Monastery, New Orleans, LA.

05.22.2004/19:01

Aquatic Gardens
Water lilies at American Aquatic Gardens, New Orleans, LA.

05.22.2004/07:13
Style
Josh sent me a link to Sufi Style, which is, more or less, in revival.

05.22.2004/07:08
Ride that board!
Thanks to my friend Conrad, I now know about this new nomination for the Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
skateboardingbulldog.com

05.21.2004/16:42

Boardwalk flowers
Boardwalk along Bayou Teche, New Iberia, LA.

05.21.2004/16:40

Drive In Window
Downtown New Iberia, LA.

05.21.2004/13:04

Open Window
Old Boldt Paper Mill, New Iberia, LA.

05.21.2004/12:54
Slug
Last night I dreamed that we were all of going to see a movie titled Bug! There actually have been a few movies which one way or another, were so named.

My movie was about one single huge bug. All we knew was that in the beginning of the movie, the bug eats up a gang of ne'er-do-well biker thugs (the typically expendable introductory victims) and the rest of the movie is about the bug threatening some pretty girl, who is of course saved by the hero.

Somewhere between the twilight of waking and pondering it once I was up and sipping tea, I started thinking a better movie might be Slug. The sequel would be called Slugs. Or even Slug Trail.

05.21.2004/12:48
Birds in war
"Britain considered training pigeons to deliver biological weapons after World War II but decided the birds had outlived their usefulness in battle, government files released on Friday show."

05.21.2004/11:11
Presidential candidate
My sister Laura sent me this link to learn about an appealing alternative to Bush: Pale Male.

05.19.2004/18:12
Snap!
Alligator snapping turtles in the news.

05.18.2004/07:53
Unseasonable Affected Disorder
We have had a long series of gray or rainy days in south Louisiana. Sometimes we welcome a stretch of dark cloudy days in mid-summer to give a break to the unrelenting heat, but to go through this in May is depressing me a wee bit. I'd like to have a few days of strong sunshine, even if the sweat does stream down my neck.

05.18.2004/01:47
A new period
Let us bid welcome to the Ediacaran Period.

05.17.2004/09:19
Rice is nice
International Year of Rice 2004. Including a photo contest.

05.17.2004/09:17
Ocean wealth?
More bad stuff about the declining state of our oceans.

05.16.2004/20:06

Gehry on the Bayou
The influence of Frank Gehry extends to New Iberia. DeCourt Gallery, Main St., New Iberia, LA.

05.16.2004/20:05

Bodies in New Iberia
Main St., New Iberia, LA.

05.14.2004/17:16
Getting Kremed
"Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., which said last week that the low-carb diet trend has hurt sales, faces shareholder lawsuits alleging it misled investors about the direction its business was headed."

05.14.2004/10:30

Driving in the Bayou
We've had enough rain the last couple of days that the Bayou Teche, which runs through New Iberia, is a bit out of its banks.

05.14.2004/07:44
More badger biz!
A magnificent Lego badger, and badgers promoting the fantasy Bananaphone. Be warned that the Bananaphone tune ingrains intself deeply into the mind. (Both via Zannah)

05.14.2004/07:33
Arms and the man
"With so little time left, J-1 wasn't going to let the sweet Aurora slip through his eight octopus arms."

05.12.2004/08:03
Our friends the cicadas
"Humans are altering the environment to make it more hospitable to cicadas, by creating little patches of forest that have lots of edges -- which the insects appear to prefer."

05.11.2004/10:07

Zephyrs game
Yesterday I went to Zephyr Field in Metairie to watch the New Orleans Zephyrs game. We got in six and half innings before rain halted the game. A few more pix to see here.

05.11.2004/08:42
Good old days
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
oldversion.com

05.10.2004/22:26
The best!
Gargle. Wince. Repeat.

05.10.2004/22:21
Is this news?
Horse bites man.

05.10.2004/20:18

Rainout
Zephyr Field, Metairie, LA. The New Orleans Zephyrs, trailing the Memphis Redbirds 4-2, had the bases loaded with one out when the rains came today in the bottom of the seventh, and the last innings were never played. But not all the fans left right away.

05.10.2004/07:02
Waiting for softer earth
Bring out your dead.

05.9.2004/10:56

Well, I got one
If you read the post I made when the new Nikon D70 was announced to the market, you are probably not surprised to learn that I tracked down a camera store that had one and ordered it.

The camera came Friday (I also ordered a telephoto zoom) and I was off to the best local birder's haunt, the Nature Conservancy's Lake Martin. I shot this barred owl with the long lens.

05.9.2004/09:27

Stacked chairs
Chairs in our dining room put on the table during floor cleaning.

05.8.2004/14:41

Night heron in flight
At Lake Martin, near Breaux Bridge, LA.

05.8.2004/14:38

And Pants
Delcambre, LA.

05.7.2004/11:38
Home cookin'
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
burntfoodmuseum.com

05.7.2004/11:35
Mountain lion
Garaged cougar in the news.

05.7.2004/10:09
Man Bites Dog
Man bites dog, now that's news!

05.6.2004/17:04
Moose snout
Moose snouts in the news.

05.6.2004/14:36
Road kill cafe
"I warned her that it is illegal to take dead animals off the side of a road..."

05.6.2004/08:40
Man in the street
One more reason to visit New York!

05.6.2004/08:17
Non-parallel parking
I hate it when this happens.

05.4.2004/09:26
Out of space
Space junk. Also, here.

05.4.2004/09:15
Wear it
A blow against Darwinism?

05.3.2004/12:03
Philosophers Unite!
At my alma mater, a concern over the existence of the department in which I majored: philosophy.

05.2.2004/21:22
Man-made clouds
"NASA scientists have found that cirrus clouds, formed by contrails from aircraft engine exhaust, are capable of increasing average surface temperatures enough to account for a warming trend in the United States that occurred between 1975 and 1994."

05.2.2004/19:22
Lightning strikes Paris
David F. Gallagher's lightningfield.com photo blog is always a rewarding destination, but you particularly don't want to neglect it right now, while he is in Paris for a time.

05.2.2004/19:19
Shopping changes
Scary news for just about all supermarkets.

05.2.2004/19:09
Blackberry Pickin'
When Susan and I dropped around the old Boldt paper mill this afternoon so that I could photogrpah the stack in afternoon light, she alertly noticed a few blackberry vines making a proud stand around the steps of one of the abandoned buildings. We picked a couple of cups of berries in quick order, and, inspired, dropped by the drug store to get a couple of plastic pails and then headed out to a berry patch we know in the country.

We were well rewarded for the trip. It's rained here the last few days, and the berries were plump and ripe. We had to force ourselves to quit picking, acknowledging that once your pail has reached a certain point, you're moving forward on pure obsession.

When I got home, I pulled out the largest Pyrex roaster I had and filled it with berries (and still have some left for tomorrow morning's cereal!). It took a triple recipe of the shortbread to fill out the cobbler. It's out of the oven and cooling now, for us to bring to a friend's house around the corner. Wish you could be there to have some with us!

05.2.2004/18:46

The stack
An afternoon light angle of the old Boldt paper mill stack I shot from the morning light side a couple of weeks ago; from this side you can see what remains of the lettering.

05.2.2004/13:35
Dark skies
Great photo of the dark skies around The Ballpark in Arlington.

05.1.2004/20:50
Destruction
Pre- and post- explostion photos of the North Korean city of Ryongchon. (via The Map Room)