Friday, May 25, 2012

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.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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.