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YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 12: during the Friendly match between i2i Albion and Dunnington at Haxby Road on January 12th 2023 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
George Mason is one of the founding fathers of the U.S., not just a guy who gave his name to a university...
He wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, upon which the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights is based.
This memorial is in East Potomac Park, near the Jefferson Memorial.
Statue of George Mason on the Virginia Washington Monument in Capitol Square, Richmond, Virginia.
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Dove family memorial in Dean Road cemetery, Scarborough. Doves were monumental masons, many of the stones in the Scarborough cemeteries are signed by them.
A jaunt up the old Mason Lake trail to Sir Richards Pond. Cold in the high country, green in the lowlands still.
This is a section of a statue I pass most days on campus. George Mason's hand rests on Locke, Hume, and Rousseau. It's not exactly subtle, but then again, I have a nagging feeling that far too many students couldn't explain the relationship between the university's namesake and those authors. What can I say, I'm doing what I can to work on that ;)
Mason's Harry Taylor, right, and Mentor's Ryan Brass head the ball during the second half of the division I soccer state finals Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, in Columbus, Ohio. Mason beat Mentor 1-0. (Jay LaPrete/For the Enquirer)
I purchased my first, solitary, bee hotel in the spring of 2018. It was quickly discovered by Mason and Leafcutter bees and by the end of the first summer, I had almost "full occupancy." The bee hotel was placed on a shelf in the garage for the winter to protect the developing larvae from sub-zero temperatures. The following spring, it was placed back on the front porch in the same location near the garden where the bees forage. Unlike, honey bees, solitary bees only travel a few hundred feet from where they emerge. I added a second bee hotel during the early summer of 2019 and both hotels had nearly "full occupancy" by the end of the summer of 2019 and again in 2020. It has been amazing to observe the female bees go back and forth from the garden collecting pollen, cutting bits of plant material or gathering mud, then returning to the bee hotel to begin the egg laying process. Once they choose a “nesting tube” they crawl to the far end to begin. The female bee places her provisions, pollen with some sticky nectar that she rolls into a ball, then lays a single egg on the top. Next, she seals the egg into a “cell” with mud or leaf material (depending on which species she is) and repeats this process until the tube is filled the whole way to the front. One female solitary bee can lay about 5-15 eggs depending on the length of the tube. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the provisions, then form cocoons, and don’t emerge until the following spring. Each year, I would bring the bee hotels out from winter storage, but missed their emergence in 2019 and 2020. However, on March 31, 2021, our first really warm day, I happened to look out the kitchen window, which faces the porch and noticed a swarm of small bees flying around the bee hotels, the porch and even resting on the aluminum siding of the house. They were warming themselves in the sun! I was able to determine that these were all Mason Bees because the bees that were emerging were all breaking through the tubes that were sealed with mud. I observed the male Mason bees fly back to the nesting holes to check on whether the female bees were emerging. The males could apparently detect where the females were and would remain on the bee hotel, to attempt mating as soon as a female came out or would even enter the tube to mate before she emerged. At times, several male bees would pile onto the female, fighting to mate with her, often falling to the ground. As each new bee made its way to the opening of a tube, their tiny faces could be seen peering out from the tubes. Each emerging bee would cautiously come to the edge, clean their antennae with their feet, quiver for a moment, then take their first flight! Since the weather has turned cold again and there aren't many flowers yet, the bees are staying inside. On the intermittent warm days, they emerge to work on cleaning out the tubes, as evidenced by bits of dried mud all over the porch, just below the bee hotels!
As of the time of this posting, the Leafcutter Bees have not emerged, as the holes are still sealed with the plant materials used. This photo series was taken over two hours and is only a small portion of the total number taken of the amazing event.
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Arthur Mason House
Howard Van Doren Shaw, 1904
Odd blend of styles. Now the home of the Hillel Center at the University of Chicago.
Pure Barre Studio is set to open Oct. 19 at 5393 Deerfield Blvd. in the Village Square at Deerfield Towne Center. Photo provided
They were giving away these battery-operated fans at the Semi's of Legg Mason. Pretty cool device, especially on a hot day ;-)
This family cemetery is located in Lorton, Va. It is on the grounds of Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason. George Mason George Mason died on Oct 7, 1792 and was buried here. You can see part of his grave in the right center of the picture, just left of the tree.
Mason High School's marching band placed sixth in the nation at Bands of America Grand Nationals held Nov. 14-17 in Indianapolis, Ind. The band performed a slapstick comedy about marriage called "'Till Death Do Us Part." Provided
Sailor Bar, American River Parkway / Sacramento County, California
John S Ascher of BugGuide.Net has determined that this image is a member of the Genus Osmia, the Mason Bees.
I have five of these mason jars which I just love and I have put different coloured vintage buttons in each of them.
Another one of my collections!!
I put it in front of my neighbour's tree and with the very intense sunlight its made the jar look green
I haven't been here in years, but my girlfriends wanted to go and so here we are. We had a little pick-a-nick then we took on one of the trails!
This is Baby Mason. He was born about a month early so his lungs were "wet" so he has the feeding tubes in and is in NICU. Other than this is healthy and should be fine and be able to go home in the next week.
This is the north side of the courthouse square in Mason, the county seat and main city in Mason County. Some of the buildings in this square date from the 1880s.
Fridays at 4:00. Just south of the Maryland/Delaware state line.
Tradiionally the Mason Dixon Line refers to the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania. But prior to surveying that border, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon fixed the boundary between Maryland and Delaware, startting at the Atlantic Ocean and working west and then north. Only then did they proceede west surveying the line that later would be generally recognized as the demarcation between North and South.
Mason police Sgt. John Cullen suffered a traumatic brain injury last May from an off-duty bicycle accident near his Loveland home. / Tony Tribble for The Enquirer