Ebony Jewelwing

Lie/Lay

 

The answer to one of life's most perplexing problems, thanks to Ellen Jovin's "Rebel with a Clause".

Conspiracy

 

Started reading Meltzer and Mensch's book this past Tuesday. We're well into the plot by now with spies spying on spies who, in turn, are spying on still other spies. In the meantime, the authors are doing a rather masterful job at reminding us of how and why WWII progressed the way it did.

Corner Pocket

 

Paint Job

 

Mild May

We're enjoying an unusually mild spring so far, with sunny skies and afternoon temperatures only in the low to mid 70s. Frequently I hear people passing me on my walks say things like, "Enjoy it while you can!" And I know exactly what they mean. The combination of heat and humidity that this region is known for is bound to return. In the meantime . . .

Master Gardner

 

Daylilies

 

Sit a Spell

 

It seems that I have become quite obsessed with gardens recently. I happened to find this one a particularly nice place to sit and rest one fine morning this past week.

Special Delivery

 

 

April showers may indeed bring May flowers, as they did again this year, but these were brought to my house by florists. :-)

Rebel with a Clause

 

Started reading Jovin’s book yesterday and it’s already a lot of fun. This, for example: “In New York, a fashionably dressed young woman told me, ‘I am an obsessive lover of footnotes,” then pulled out her phone and showed me a photo of her foot with ibid tattooed on it. I had met my first footnote fetishist!” — Rebel with a Clause by Ellen Jovin

Catalpas

 

Now is the perfect time of year to experience the catalpa trees in Williamsburg at their peak. 

Break Time

 

Break time for our otherwise busy bovine.

Topiary

Exuberant

 

Over the Fence

 

Morning Walk

Gate

 

Servants of the Damned

 

Finished reading Enrich's book last night. I was so green to the subject that--for several pages--I thought Jones Day was an individual. Only gradually did I become aware that Enrich is referring to the now infamous law firm responsible for--among other things--defending Donald Trump, Purdue Pharma, R. J. Reynolds, Exxon, and the list goes on and on and . . . on, giving me a renewed appreciation for one of the author's opening quotes from the January 2004 edition of American Lawyer magazine: "From handguns to tobacco, Jones Day defends the powerfully damned and the damned powerful."

Onions

May Flowers

 

The same garden I photographed last month, but, how, how it has changed!

Restoration

 

You may remember when I posted about the Bray School being relocated to its new site in Colonial Williamsburg. Well, now that it's in place, it's restoration is underway.

The Pose

 

Old & New

 

Tranquility

 

May your day be just as tranquil.

Skywatch

Linking to Skywatch

 

Fences

"An attention to fencing, a feature of English agriculture since about the fifteenth century, was perpetuated by English settlers in North America. Though often not without overtones of possession, fences were built for mainly practical reasons. In the southern colonies, livestock of all kinds was accommodated in the woods surrounding the cultivated fields. As the animals could be branded or otherwise marked for owner identification and cleared land was often limited, crops came to be enclosed and livestock was thus fenced out. Conversely, in New England and parts of the middle colonies, livestock was customarily fenced in. By no means restricted to agricultural use, fences also defined and protected all types of rural and urban spaces, such as churchyards, gardens, and workyards, throughout the colonies." -- Partitioning the Landscape by Vanessa E. Patrick

Library

Happy Birthday

 

Tucker House

 

"The St. George Tucker House is one of the original colonial homes in Historic Williamsburg. It was built in 1718–19 for William Levingston (who, incidentally, built the first theater in America). The house eventually came into the hands of St. George Tucker who had moved from Bermuda to Williamsburg. Tucker was a lawyer and professor of law at the College of William and Mary and later became a state and federal judge. In 1796, Judge Tucker wrote a controversial pamphlet addressed to the General Assembly of Virginia. In it he laid out a plan to end slavery in Virginia because 'the abolition of slavery was of great importance for the moral character of the citizens of Virginia.' He is also famous for his 1803 edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. which has become an indispensable American law text." -- Wikipedia