I have a special fondness for birds, and love to watch them move. I happened to see this crane hunting for lunch in a swamp in Florida, and couldn’t resist getting two successive shots of him. What a majestic creature.
Photo of the Day: Blues Alley
It’s an expensive place to see music (especially the food), but the setting is so intimate that it’s hard to pass up. The musicians are practically in your lap. Blues Alley is a great place to see jazz and blues.
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Assessing the Damage at the National Cathedral
So yesterday I went to the National Cathedral for the first time since last fall’s earthquake, which damaged my favorite building in DC. Some of the damage was obvious, some subtle, and it was sad to see the scaffolding up.
Much of the damage was to the pinnacles, or the points coming out the top.
During the quake a half-dozen or so of them came loose or slid off completely. There are no rods going down through the layers of stone; gravity and their immense weight has kept them in place for years. A few which weren’t salvageable were on display in front of the Cathedral. You can see they’re just big blocks sitting on top of one another Continue reading
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