Night Vision Binoculars - Passengers

A nice and creepy song for your Friday. Happy weekend, folks!

Mail Pouch

I love these old advertisements on the sides of barns. More than that, I love isolating parts of them to suit my own purposes. Happy week to you all.

Fiery Foods

When you look at the map of Columbus, Ohio, does it say Spice Capital of the world? No? Huh. This weekend I visited the North Market's Fiery Food Festival and it delivered tenfold on it's promise. If it can be baked, roasted, grilled, or brewed, then it can be made spicy apparently. We tried a beer named Scorpion. A word of advice ... just don't try anything named 'Scorpion', okay? I am serious. You'll be tempted. You'll say to yourself, "How bad can it be?" But it can kill you. I'm just saying. And I scored some spicy raspberry preserves that will make a great PB&J sandwich, don't you think?

Petosky Stone - Dana Falconberry

I know, I know, I've been missing around here a lot lately. I've got a few projects keeping me busy and haven't been taking a lot of pictures lately anyway. That being said, I've been listening to Dana Falconberry a lot this week. Enjoy it, and have a great weekend, will you?

Zola Jesus - Poor Animal

I've been listening to these folks a lot this week. I think one of the reasons I like them is that I have no idea what she's singing. That seems about right, this week. Happy weekend!

Williamsburg in B&W

You see I'm still making my way through pictures from Williamsburg. It seems a month ago when I was wearing a light coat in spring-like weather. So pretty.

Random

I've been a bad blogger these days. Would you believe I'm still making my way through pictures of Willaimsburg? Yes, you would. But meanwhile, this weekend I had one of my old walks through the neighborhood and saw some neat stuff, mushrooms and broken glass, and yes, a few mushrooms too. And my Lenten Rose is already blooming, though the weather guy says to expect Winter tomorrow. I also took out the non-digital SLR my brother-in-law so generously gave me. It's funny, how spoiled we are with DSLRs, how you can decide in any given situation what speed and exposure you want then and there, but when you have 400 speed film, you have 400 speed film. Still, it's fun to test your training, don't you think?

Colonial Williamsburg II

It's curious, how easily you can be transported to another time and place. Walking around Williamsburg, it's easy to develop romantic notions about what it must have been like to stop at the bakery for good bread, the stationers for writing paper, the butcher for a fine cut of beef for dinner, and the cobbler to order a new pair of shoes. I suppose if I didn't know about Zappos and Amazon, it might be easier to sustain that romance. But still, visiting with the tailor in the milliner's shop was a rather convincing argument. His spot-on accent, attire and manners, showing me every garment he'd sewn by hand couldn't have been a more perfect picture of life in 1760.  And frankly, I was eyeing his cut-away coat for myself.

Colonial Williamsburg

I visited Colonial Williamsburg over a long weekend. It was remarkable. I will share a few things about it over the next few days, but only want to say right now that what we have come to know as our country was, for quite a long time, not yet a country. It was an idea, a thing in the making based on some radical ideas. Ideas that people were willing to fight and die for, that freedom is never free.