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• Jimmy Dog Studio

  
  Drex Weaver [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• Sophia

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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• fog

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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• election day

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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:05am EST
  

• countdown

  
  Something new on the holly-day apparatus market, the Frosty the Snowman countdown clock.
  Apologies for the color. [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:51pm EST
  

• fog

  
  How sweet it would be, if we were Sequoia trees.
  2000-3000 years in a grove together.
  That would be enough. [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• Jimmy Dog Studio

  
  Jimmy Dog, napping. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• Jimmy Dog Studio

  
  Shannon Worrell, Jen H Tidwell, Brian Caputo [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:32am EST
  

• fog

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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  

• flight

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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• waiting on a train

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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:27am EST
  

• Hardings Wharf, Dividing Creek

  
  site of former Piankitank Line ferry stop [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• Thanksgiving

  
  with family [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:07am EST
  

• Jimmy Dog Studio

  
  Rick Olivarez [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:41am EST
  

• Jimmy Dog Studio

  
  Maia Oden, Emily McCormick, Terri Allard and Laura Light [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:07am EST
  

• Jimmy Dog Studio

  
  Carleigh Nesbit & Jeff Romano [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• day of rest

  
  Woolen Mills Chapel [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:46am EST
  

• junk

  
  The free and automatic distribution of phonebooks is supposed to be a public service, but it's actually a detriment to the appearance of our streets and to the environment. Apart from merely creating litter, printing so many books is hugely wasteful. The number of phonebooks delivered annually [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:42am EST
  

• Twymans Mill

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:08am EST
  

• alchemy

  
  creative locus now a place of memory [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:15am EST
  

• street vendors

  
  full belly for $5.00 [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:43am EST
  

• street vendors

  
  face in the crowd. Fang mask. Wish this vendor would relocate to CHO [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

• last best place

  
  Neighborhood stores are good. Helen and John's in the Woolen Mills closed a few years back, but there was still R&K in Slabtown. [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:26am EST
  

• day of rest

  
  Mars Hill Pentecostal Church, opened July 8, 1973, Founder and Pastor Elder Olin Williams [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:22am EST
  

• Squirrelly

  
  I have never compressed, crushed or squeezed a squirrel to the pavement while driving an automobile. They do their squirrelly thing. Method in the madness. Here comes the car. Dash first one way, then another, then pirouette, then away.
  I think they are pressed, squashed and pressed [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:35am EST
  

• Student Internship Positions

  
  
  Rivanna River Basin Commission seeks student interns for 2010
  
  Stormwater Tools for Localities: Research incentive based approaches to encouraging "advanced" stormwater management (from comp plan/ordinance changes to fee structures) in support of a grant to the Commission from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation. Prepare [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:00am EST
  

• Tristes Tropiques

  
  Farewell to savages, then, farewell to journeying! And instead, during the brief intervals in which humanity can bear to interrupt its hive-like labours, let us grasp the essence of what our species has been and still is, beyond thought and beneath society: an essence that may be [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:22am EST
  

• Creigh

  
  Virginia gubernatorial candidate, Creigh Deeds [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 11:57pm EDT
  

• life of the party

  
  Staunton, Virginia [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:59am EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  church of the blue dome [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 8:57am EDT
  

• suspect

  
  sometime innocents look guilty [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• rural free delivery

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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:44am EDT
  

• Rappahannock River

  
  near Towles Point, Lancaster County, Virginia
  
  We envision a future which celebrates our need to return to the river as a source of daily pleasure, a place of commerce, and a place of occupation brought about by interested citizens and groups working together.
  
  Regarding water [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 7:58am EDT
  

• informed citizenry

  
  Tonight (Wednesday, 10/21) four candidates for City Council will take part in a forum -- a question and answer session -- airing their stances on the issues that affect our lives in Charlottesville -- and in our neighborhoods. The forum will take place in Council Chambers in [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 7:20am EDT
  

• walkabout

  
  Preservation Piedmont has organized an open house and walking tour event in the sustainable, dynamic and historic Woolen Mills Village neighborhood.
  Tickets are on sale at New Dominion Bookshop, Greenberry's (Barrack's Road) and Beer Run.
  For more info please visit Preservation Piedmont's' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 4:16pm EDT
  

• duck test and the USGS

  
  If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
  
  There is a stream in my neighborhood that I've crossed weekly for 22 years, I've never seen it run dry. When reorienting a public [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:50am EDT
  

• Pueraria lobata

  
  beneath the kudzu there is a stream [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• .

  
  end civil twilight [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 11:35pm EDT
  

• Bold

  
  In years past squirrels have gained access to their winter quarters by chewing holes into the attic of my house.
  This one had a better idea. [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 12:59pm EDT
  

• don't sit there

  
  text by Jenny Holzer, engraved in a piece of stone in the MoMA garden. A man in a uniform directed Aus to move. Don't sit there. Not a bench. Move. (art, $30,000+/-)' [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paul [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 9:34am EDT
  

• B'more, Maryland

  
  Passing through. Stoops. Photo from Amtrak. [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 9:32am EDT
  

• Baltimore, Maryland

  
  view from the Crescent, Amtrak's passenger train, passing through.' [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• Metropolitan Rat

  
  Death comes early if you breathe asbestos [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• Fifth Avenue

  
  Tried to visit Dave Beckerman today. alas, that didn't work out. Had to settle for Robert Frank Exhibit at the Met plus Acapella Soul + the Rat.
  The Rat out in public, making an appeal to the public regarding the Rat's belief that the Met [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 12:08am EDT
  

• MoMA

  
  What makes for the ideal built environment? A roof over every head, a chicken in every pot. Sculpture in the garden. Am hoping my educated friends will inform via comment, who made these feet? [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 12:02am EDT
  

• train 88

  
  rode steel rails north to NYC. Feels like modern track, no clickety clack. The regional train running 120 mph. [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• density

  
  71,201 residents per square mile--wikipedia [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 12:04am EDT
  

• Loomings

  
  There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs--commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 9:41pm EDT
  

• my tribe

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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 12:01am EDT
  

• puppy class

  
  Sophie didn't pass' [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 12:02am EDT
  

• continuity

  
  
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:30pm EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  Harmony Village First Baptist Church [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2009, 1:45pm EDT
  

• Mr. Deeds

  
  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds in CHO Saturday. [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
  

• the power of law

  
  The Southern Environmental Law Center has a unique mission.
  Use the power of the law to protect the environment and health of the Southeast. Working in all three branches of government, this non-profit organization shapes, implements, and enforces the laws and policies that determine the quality [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:13am EDT
  

• Rives Street

  
  When I was little I wondered why so many places turned the alphabet off. Reading without comprehension is mixed blessing. I worried about the infamous Sand-Witch, she was everywhere. [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 12:04am EDT
  

• Carlton Avenue

  Bike loop, sunset. [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 6:47am EDT
  

• herdsman

  
  Sterling Watson funeral. Orange, Virginia. 2001. [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 6:16am EDT
  

• doll

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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 7:57am EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  where is this church? [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 7:55am EDT
  

• Love one another

  
  There is no set curriculum, no government course, for learning how to be a neighbor, how to behave in the public realm. [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• damage

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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 12:20am EDT
  

• Marmota monax mortuus

  
  Chuck wood no more. [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 11:54pm EDT
  

• sisters

  
  3x3x3. Happy birthday! [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 12:47am EDT
  

• Cav Man

  
  Are there lasting mental phenomena associated with wearing a mascot suit? Friday night, Cav Man on the downtown mall, not sure what he was doing. [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  Barboursville, Virginia
  "The South is by a long way the most simply and sincerely religious country that I was ever in."--Wm. Archer [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 10:35am EDT
  

• flosser

  
  Levi Spear Parmly, a dentist from New Orleans, is credited with inventing the first form of dental floss. He recommended that people should clean their teeth with silk floss in 1815. Dental floss was still unavailable to the consumer until the Codman and Shurtleft company started producing [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2009, 12:02am EDT
  

• Norris Bridge

  
  Town Creek , Callis' 6:39 am' [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 12:04am EDT
  

• Rivanna River

  
  Woolen Mills swimming hole. 0.91 miles to Monticello, 1.34 miles to the Pavillion, 5.14 miles to Wal-Mart. [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 11:29pm EDT
  

• foot long

  
  Fishbones, banners, signs, posters and handbills. Its manly space on the east side of town. The only architectural historicism here is a goodle days paean. The realm of the gas chariot. We heart 1965! But look close, still the 21st C, 'tis Gumby, behind the moose,' [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• fish bones

  
  My evening bike loop takes me past this scene in twilight. What you can't see, the herd of deer grazing.' [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 12:02am EDT
  

• Corvus brachyrhynchos, Ginkgo biloba

  
  The state bird of Virginia is (yawn) the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis). The state tree is the (yawn yawn) Dogwood, cornus florida, more a bush than a tree.
  Let the state bird be the American Crow and the state tree something whup ass, a Ginkgo, a survivor. [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  Chapman Grove Baptist Church, Xavier V. Jackson, Pastor. Established 1900. [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2009, 12:13am EDT
  

• Malcolm Holcombe

  
  Drove with Robin to Devil's Backbone to hear Malcolm Holcombe. A dark and stormy night. Elemental. Strange, beautiful. [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 12:50am EDT
  

• coconut

  
  seed of cocos nucifera
  
  In the sixties I had a coconut. Sat for portraits. Liked listening to Jimi. [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 12:04am EDT
  

• Malcolm in Town

  
  Moma Told Me So- from cd I Never Heard you Knockin', available here
  
  Malcolm Holcombe on WNRN 91.9 FM acoustic sunrise tomorrow morning, 8:00 am.
  Playing tomorrow (Friday) night in Roseland Virginia, Devil's Backbone Brewing Company [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 12:57am EDT
  

• growl

  
  Malcolm Holcombe playing in Roseland, 9pm, August 28 at the Devil's Backbone Brewing Company. For more information check the Velvet Rut [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 3:35pm EDT
  

• night

  
  for my dear friend, James Lawrence Orr. There is night in the City and there is night in Calhoun County. [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 12:13am EDT
  

• Magic Beans, Bowl of Soup, Walmart in the Wilderness

  
  The Board of Supervisors will hold a Special Meeting on Monday, August 24, 2009, at 6 p.m., in the Orange County High School Auditorium, located at 201 Selma Road, Orange, Virginia, in order to conduct a public hearing to receive comment on and take action on [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 8:43am EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  All Saints Episcopal Chapel, Stony Point, Virginia [...]
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  Posted: August 23, 2009, 9:06am EDT
  

• family

  
  Gray visits Sophia's perch on the stairs. [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 12:44am EDT
  

• on a silhouette jag

  
  Sylvilagus floridanus [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 9:11am EDT
  

• Lake Louise

  
  Alleghany County, NC [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 11:52am EDT
  

• family

  
  my sister is in town, on the other side of the room drinking coffee. She said "day of rest is still up". Lets see what we can do about that... [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 7:48am EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  Bunnie Dunaway's Church, Rt 354, Lancaster County, Virginia [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 12:47am EDT
  

• around here

  
  Northern Neck, Chesapeake Bay,Town Creek, Slabtown, Virginia
  
  The south bank of the peninsula was the most popular location in Virginia for the People to live. An abundance of food. Formerly the world's richest estuarine system. Came a big trade in tobacco. The People had to be [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  

• Muzzle

  
  A dry muzzle, a sign of good health [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 9:39am EDT
  

• fly gear

  
  Wildon Church Road, Gordonsville, Virginia [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  Wildon Grove Baptist Church [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2009, 7:55am EDT
  

• Health Camp

  
  if only, if only history had turned out different and the Health Camp had floated to the top instead of Ray Krok. Have you tried a Banana Boat, Super Healthburger, a Fiesta Burger? Could of drunk a Big Red instead, since 1949... No corporate clown.
  10-2-4 Anyone [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 8:53am EDT
  

• tremendous envelope

  
  This 18x24" envelope handed over to the US Postal service Wednesday, first class mail, bound for Tallahassee, Florida. When it arrives, the recipient will photograph.
  The drama!
  The post office, for years, my favorite federal agency...
  The accumulation of miles, the passage of time, what will remain?[...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 12:28am EDT
  

• hand made

  
  typosis [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 12:28am EDT
  

• hand made

  
  What sort of individual joins the Circle Club? [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 12:26pm EDT
  

• dress blues

  
  s/f [...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 9:24am EDT
  

• day of rest

  
  Kendall Missionary Baptist Church [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2009, 12:07am EDT
  

• beware of dog

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  Posted: August 01, 2009, 12:26am EDT
  

• fog

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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 12:09am EDT
  

• Opheodrys aestivus

  
  Acceptable serpent, also known as bush snake, grass snake, green summer snake, green tree snake, green whip snake, huckleberry snake, keel-scaled green snake, magnolia snake, vine snake, not a green mamba. This snake died crossing the road near Ottoman, Virginia.
  
  Anyone interested in the education, conservation, [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2009, 12:03am EDT
  

• zea mays

  
  Sophia with the class of 2008, Slabtown, Virginia [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 5:51pm EDT
  

• zea mays

  
  Kingdom: Plantae
  Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
  Superdivision: Spermatophyta
  Division: Magnoliophyta
  Class: Liliopsida
  Subclass: Commelinidae
  Order: Cyperales
  Family: Poaceae -- Grass family
  Genus: Zea -- corn
  Species : Zea mays -- corn
  
  Maize, commonly referred to as corn in the United States, has been considered a unique plant since [...]
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  Posted: July 28, 2009, 12:02am EDT