This misspelled sign was on the west side of Rt. 20, north of Charlottesville, for many years, taunting me every time I passed. Mercifully, it disappeared earlier this year, leaving only the post. I like to think somebody finally snapped and tore it down.
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Christmas Eve.
Four year dogaversary.
It was four years ago today — December 22, 2001 — that Ado Annie came to live with us. This picture was taken mere seconds after she was unloaded from her airplane shipping crate, delivered to us from Oklahoma at nine weeks of age. She seems to be working out.
Stunned White-Throated Sparrow.
This little guy thumped up against against my sliding glass door this afternoon. He had some quality time in a warm, dark shoebox before I released him outside an hour or so later. He couldn’t fly, but could flutter well enough to escape me, so that assured his freedom. Ado Annie guarded him from a …
More ice storm pics.
The morning after the ice storm, I woke up just as the sun peeked over the mountains and into my bedroom window. The sight was so beautiful that I just had to pull on some clothes, grab my camera, and head outside. I shot dozens of pictures — the above is one of my favorites …
Me and Paul Harris.
At the Sorensen Institute Political Leaders graduation dinner. December 2, 2005. Photo by Jen Fariello.
Charlottesville chalkboard preview.
I’m on the advisory committee for The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression‘s free expression monument, which is being built on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, in front of City Hall. The structure of the monument — which is a large chalkboard — has been completed, but the slate is being mined in Buckingham …
Mobile auto detailing.
Perhaps it’s not a representative sample. Spotted on South First Street, December 4, 2005.
Five Guys opening on the Downtown Mall.
Corner of Fourth and Main, December 4, 2005. This will end badly.
Service Dogs of Virginia graduation.
Amber and I attended this year’s Service Dogs of Virginia graduation this afternoon. The graduates were Ciara and Dandelion, Mark and Ivy, and Tappan and Rocky. It was sad to see the puppy raisers give up their dogs, but the (human) graduates couldn’t have looked more pleased with their new friends.