My friend Cory sent me this important information.
Usually it's cars you see in the front yard up on blocks. Apparently the appliances made things just that much too heavy.
I fear that tell-it-like-it-is Ralph Nader is not beating around the bush about the future.
A visit to the new Dobbins domain on Whidbey Island. Attractions include: tending the burgeoning new garden and making garden plans; signs of spring; the wind-chopped Dugualla Bay out the back door; Dugualla Bay at low tide; finally starting a stained-glass window-framing project but not finishing it yet, and getting a new table saw; making a gift for Liz's baby shower; and people-watching on a ferry ride home at the close of the day.
So I needed these large-format aerial photos for our work on the Nooksack River. I borrowed them from a Whatcom County agency. They were the only photos available for that river from 1961 and 1986. 38 bound volumes, each filled with 21" X 17" sheets of heavy photographic paper. I selected and removed around 200-plus sheets that cover the river channel, and sent them to be professionally scanned, at considerable expense.
I practically had to give a DNA sample to get permission to borrow them. And I think I sort of implicitly promised to return them this Monday, but the scanning is going to take longer than that. I may have to flee the country. I wonder who else will take in an American these days.
Library of Congress photos from the Civil War (via kottke). This one is from Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1864. The high-resolution TIF version allows you to zoom in and see details that bring history to life and take you back in time.
Speaking of bringing history to life, just in case you need further evidence as to the inanity of war, a search for "dead" will yield enough photographic historical perspective to call into question this country's current plans.
For a somewhat more removed view of history, the Library of Congress also has an excellent collection of online maps, among other things, as do Washington State University and the University of Washington.
