Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Shasta dam under construction, California. Russell Lee, 1942

Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas. Howard R. Hollem, 1942.

Clintonia andrewsiana...

... occurs in abundance along one short stretch of the Lost Trail in Windy Hill OSP. It's a California native in the lily family and always a delight to come upon as you round the bend in the trail, aglow against the ferns and horsetails in the deep shade of the redwoods.

From Windy Hill, May 25, 2012 From Windy Hill, May 25, 2012

Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Child of strawberry picker, Hammond, Louisiana. Ben Shahn, 1935.

Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Good citizenship and plain common sense. This man is performing a duty every car owner owes to himself and to our fighting men. In having his car adjusted to prevent excessive tire wear--and in observing the simple rules that make tires last longer--he is making a valuable contribution to our war effort. The man who wastes rubber is a poor citizen and blind even to his own personal interests. Martha McMillan, Howard R. Hollem, Albert Freeman, or Howard Liberman, 1942.

Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Saturday afternoon in London, Ohio, "the other side of the tracks". Ben Shahn, 1938.

Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

At the Greene County fair, Greensboro, Georgia. White schoolchildren were admitted free one day, Negro schoolchildren the next. Jack Delano, 1941.

Four things I liked about the Avengers movie

1. Thor.
2. During one of the few passages in which nothing is blowing up, a string quartet plays Schubert's "Rosamunde," which I heard my son perform last summer. Lovely!
3. The giant armored monsters from outer space swim through the city like an airborn version of a pliosaur.
4. Gwyneth Paltrow's feet.
Not necessarily in that order. Don't ask me to come up with a fifth.