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During the Civil War and for many years after, this bottonland was farmed and served as range for cattle. After the expansion of the Washington, DC metro area put pressure on landowners of farmland in eastern VA to sell to developers, property such as this was allowed to recover naturally due to it's value for wildlife refugia, storm water flood attenuation, and suburban recreation space. On this day, I rode my mountain bike through the area at sunset to see what there was to see; a quiet place away from the mega-shopping malls and freeways of northern Virginia where squirrels, deer, owls, fox, an occasional coyote, and of course, racoons and skunks survive amidst an ever growing mass of urban sprawl. With that urban sprawl and it's associated hard surfaces, runoff from rain events is concentrated and forced into areas such as this. The effect is obvious; the degradation of stream channels like this one become unnaturally scoured and gutted raceways for flood waters that rage after modest summer storms.
Someone stuck a beautiful white feather in a crack in the back of a stainless steel drinking fountain that to me called for a photo :-)
A cascading waterfall from a small steam that runs through Finch Arboretum, a park in Spokane Washington. Taken with my Agfa Isolette 2 with Fuji Acros film and developed in D-76 1:1. Exposue time was f/32 at 1 second.
Boola, Co. Waterford - Flowing Stream - Kieran McCarthy - Video clip footage of same location: youtu.be/kIu6TueZALs
"Waste Stream"
Wall Hanging by Mary Anne Enriquez 2009
Wherever there are humans, there is unwanted debris found in urban, industrial, suburban, agricultural, and "pristine" wilderness regions. Fishermen might leave behind lead sinkers, nylon fishing line, food and drink cans in "natural areas."
Unresponsible campers, tourists, highway litterers, the homeless, just plain people like you and me, children...its impossible not to create waste that can wind up in public places. Mankind's waste leaches chemicals into the soil - ultimately into rivers, lakes, and oceans --affecting us all.
I spent 1 year saving "trash" in and around my own daily life. Mostly the trash is my own, but a little bit is from the street, waste receptacles, or on the sidewalk. I then encased this colorful often recognizable detritus and created fish.
Fish are an indicator species of how unhealthy our water and environment is. Water is a carrier of waste from long distances a way. Water is absolutely necessary to all life on earth. The play on words "waste stream" is to make the viewer think about how our daily lives affect the entire planet.
Materials used:
- steel office staples & clear vinyl... encapsulate advertising, popular culture, artifact, and unwanted waste.
- tree branch - a highly invasive non-native shrub called European Buckthorn, Rhamnus Cathartica, was cut down by the Forest Preserve of Cook County Illinois. I found it in a restoration pile of branches along a roadside.
- lead sinkers, and nylon fishing line (both poison/ kill a large amount of wildlife each year)
Materials used to stuff the fish:
- paper ( magazines, junk mail, office waste, newspapers etc)
- cardboard packaging, (cereal boxes and food packaging)
- plastic of all kinds
- candy wrappers
- wood and metal "found" objects
Show is up until July 31, 2009 in Hammond, Indiana.
FINIS
An Egg Cream is a famous and delicious drink that was invented in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. In the early twentieth century. In those days a tall glass of plain seltzer water was called a "Two Cent Plain." I think an Egg Cream was three cents or a nickel. I don't remember...
The name Egg Cream is a misnomer since it has no eggs and no cream. It was originally made in a tall glass, with a little milk, Fox's U-Bet chocolate syrup, and seltzer added last to make the lasting foam.
I was out of tall glasses so I used a highball glass. I am trying to not have milk to help me lose weight, so I added spices that I know from experience will produce a nice, long lasting foam on the top.
I started with about an inch (2.5 centimeters) of coffee.
Then I added the Vanilla extract and the ground spices: Cinnamon, Allspice, Nutmeg, Ginger, and Cloves.
I poured in the seltzer last. Pour it in quickly enough that it makes a rich foam but not too fast so the foam doesn't overflow the glass. It's okay if a little overflows, but then you have to wipe the glass and put it on a coaster. Using cold seltzer in a warm glass adds to the foaming effect.
Remembering back to my childhood, it always overflowed in drugstores and ice cream fountains. (:-)
As you can see, Chic's Egg Cream requires no sweetener and no milk or cream.
Please use a tall glass, if you have one available. The egg cream lasts much longer!!!
a pair of geometrically formed spinners.....maybe in space....
Thanks for having a look .....much appreciated......best bigger....hope you have a Great Weekend
I climbed onto a rock in the stream to take this, had to photograph downstream as the sun peaked through the trees.
At the Victoria Park Lantern Festival, St. John's, Newfoundland. Lanterns set in the old streambed recreate the stream in light.
Taken near Lundy Lake on Oct 16 2011
Getting to this place was not easy. I had to go on a single lane dirt road to reach the beaver ponds. My Camry had a tough time on this road. At one spot me and another huge pickup truck were stuck adjacent to each other so both of us had to backup, I didn't realize there was a guy tailgating me on this road so I backed up without looking and heard a loud bam. I looked back and got out of my car and an old white guy got out of his SUV and said "You got a license young man" I a little intimidated said "Yeah" and the next minute he looked at the front bumper for his SUV and there was not even a slight scratch but I could see his licence place engraved on my rear bumper. Then he looks at me and says "How about we go ahead then?" I being at fault here coudln't day anything other than "Okay" and we went out ways. Only reward for me after this mess was this shot, it turned out pretty good so I wasn't completely disappointed :) The next time I go here I am renting a pickup truck.