Last week, Lynchburg’s minor league baseball team announced their new identity, abandoning the Hillcats moniker after about thirty years, give or take. Beginning this year, they are the Hill City Howlers. Hill City because Lynchburg is informally known as “the Hill City.” (It’s commonly said to be built on seven hills, like ancient Rome.) Howlers,Continue reading “A New Chapter Opens in Lynchburg Baseball History”
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March 1844, 2020
Five years ago today Diamond’s office shut down for COVID and went work-from-home. Tomorrow, bids for Diamond’s assets are due to the bankruptcy court. When work-from-home started, I was writing the May 2020 catalog, which went unpublished. Yesterday, I began writing the May 2025 catalog. This has been the longest month. Before the COVID shutdown,Continue reading “March 1844, 2020”
Windsday
For a Thursday, today is awfully Windsday. It’s bright and nice and a little chilly and and very, very, very windy.
Signs of Autumn
Nothing exciting, just a few photos of the autumn foliage.
The Colors of Spring
It’s been a vibrant few weeks — incredibly beautiful and with deleterious nasal effects. I’ve not been able to breathe through my nose in weeks! I went out to CVS this afternoon to pick up one of my prescriptions. It was a quiet moment, I’d reached a good stopping point in the day’s major workContinue reading “The Colors of Spring”
Daily Cloud: September 10
Memorial Day at the Cemeteries
No Memorial Day parade in Dallastown yesterday — a casualty of the COVID pandemic, no doubt — so I went down to Baltimore to visit the cemeteries of my grandparents and great-grandparents and leave flags. I hadn’t been down that way since March, when I lined up the old photograph of the trolley at LoudonContinue reading “Memorial Day at the Cemeteries”
Hiking Around a Cemetery
Spring has arrived in South Pennsyltucky; as I write this, there’s a moderate spring monsoon. The last two weekends I’ve gone to a local cemetery to explore — no, I haven’t found what I’m looking for — and yesterday, I drove down to Baltimore to look once more at Loudon Park. When I was thereContinue reading “Hiking Around a Cemetery”
Starlings
A cover of elbow’s “Starlings” on the ukulele. I have a uke. I bought it in the spring. I thought so might learn to play it… and then I never found — or made — the time.
Scenes of Recent Life
Some photos and commentary from the last two weeks. Last Friday, November 29th, marked the 50th-anniversary of the release of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. It’s also the day that Jem Roberts’ book, Fab Fools, was in my mailbox. This isn’t a book about the Beatles as musicians. It doesn’t concern itself with whenContinue reading “Scenes of Recent Life”