Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These planes can spray 100 acres an hour, can usually fly one or two hours unless it rains or storms in an average day. The usual traveling "dusting circus" has at least three or four planes, its own pilots, mechanics and elementary repair shop. Seabrook Farms, between Bridgeton and Vineland, New Jersey. Edwin Rosskam, 1938.

Annals of semi-apologies

I suppose Dharun Ravi's semi-apology is better than the all-too-common non-apology (... mistakes were made... if my words offended anyone, I sincerely regret it... etc.). But I agree with TNC: "the wrong choices and decisions" sounds a little too much like "I should have gone for the salad instead of the soup."

Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Sharecropper boy. Chesnee, South Carolina. Dorothea Lange, 1937.

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Shasta dam under construction, California. Russell Lee, 1942

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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

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

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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.