The Tenth Week of 2017 Project 365, A Photograph a Day

 Closing out the tenth week of 2017's 365 project. The conclusion of a road trip, setting up for Artomatic installation at the end of the month, a busy week at work. Somehow I feel like I'm falling behind. I need an extra day at the end of the week to get caught up.

Day 64 03-03-2017

Road tripping home, side stops at covered bridges and other intriguing sites. Walter's Mill Covered Bridge, 1859, 

The bridge originally crossed Coxes Creek, four miles south of the town of Somerset.  Major repairs were made in 1909, at which time wooden Burr arches were added to the bridge's original multiple kingpost truss system to accommodate heavier vehicles.  Threatened with destruction, the bridge was moved to the Somerset Historical Center in the early 1960s.

Day 65 03-06-2017

A camelia repeat, they are so beautiful, and the cold of early spring is starting to burnish their petals brown.

Day 66 03-07-2017

iphone photo in black & white

“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.” ~Rumi

Day 67 03-08-2017

iphone photo, black and white

Ready for spring, patio dining at The Yards in Washington, DC

Day 68 03-09-2017

Blooming apricot tree. Cruel spring, warm for the last few days teasing us with glory, bitter cold weather is on it's way.















 Friday's cheese board and prosecco with hibiscus blossoms. A lovely repast for a glorious day.

Day 69 03-10-2017

Day 70 03-11-2017

Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? ~Virginia Woolf




Photography, Old Store Lucketts, Lucketts, Virginia 



























Photography & prose by Terry Rowe.

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Five Christmas Eves

Christmas Eve 2014. My fifth year of a 365 photography project is winding to a close. The interesting thing about a 365 project is that I have a photographic record for each day of each year.

Easy to recall what I was doing, thinking, feeling when I have a visual record representing the day.

Today I looked back through Christmas Eves past - 2010 through 2014.
 

2010 - Alexandria, Virginia

Paperwhite bulbs, all setup.

I love to have blooming flowers
and green plants to carry me through the winter.

2011  - Nashville, Tennessee

Visited a cemetery and photographed the beautiful monuments, it was a peaceful, quiet interlude to the day's activities.

2012 - At home in Alexandria, Virginia. I had the day off so took a drive out into the country and visited the lovely village of Paris, Virginia. It was a cold, foggy day with light snow falling.

2013 - Nashville, Tennessee. Portrait of Snuggles, a female cocker spaniel, approximately 11 years old. Companion to my brother-in-law.















2014 - Alexandria, Virginia. A candle burning in the night/

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A Pre-Dawn Walk

 Pre-dawn walking is encouraged in Virginia in August. It is cooler, quieter, and you can be alone with your thoughts. The dog walks with me and we walk the neighborhood streets, a single star still visible in the pre-dawn sky looming over us. An occasional car drives by, some early to work, some just getting home. Here and there, evidence of other risers. A jogger in the distance, the faint sounds of his shoes on the pavement. A light comes on in the house to the left of us, the blue light of a television flickers in the window of another house.

Cicadas hum in the bushes, and the birds, just rising, sing to waken the sun. Time to head home, start the coffee, and begin another day of work.

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Overview of a Week of Photography (Week 8)

The eighth week of my 365, a photograph a day, project. I made a more concentrated effort to get out more, out of my back yard and house, and into the wider world. Of course, the weather was a bit more cooperative - less snow and a few, very comfortable days, that rose into the 50s.

The first photo to start this week is the Jefferson Memorial, my favorite monument in Washington. It's a graceful and elegant tribute to Thomas Jefferson.

Union Station (train station) has many wonderful architectural features and will likely see me return for more photographs.

A small still life, a found bottle, scarf, rock, and peacock feathers. I love the frosting on the bottle, and the bright blue-green of the feathers.

Another weekend in Charlottesville and I used the time to work on street photography. This elegant older woman was a wonderful subject.



















And, if I'm in Charlottesville, I must visit the University of Virginia campus. A warmish February day saw students and visitors taking advantage of the weather to enjoy the Lawn in front of the Rotunda.

The broken windows of a chicken coop on an abandoned farm in Loudoun County form an abstract view of the world.

Boundary Channel flows into the Potomac River. The channel waters reflect the sky clouds with a perfect intensity.


















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Overview of a Week of Photography (Week 7)

Week seven was a week of juggling work and travel plans. A heavy snow fall melted during a thaw only to have more snow roll in. A long holiday weekend saw me driving to Charlottesville one day, Cape Charles the next, and back to Alexandria on the third day. The weekend became extended when we had just enough snow fall to keep everyone tucked in at home.

My dog Bear, day dreaming. Could it be about squirrels? Or a big fat bone? Or maybe a long walk....

A garden stake marking the peony is a stark graphic against the snow.

Abandoned tulips, cast down in the snow, are turned into art with textures and text.

My trip to Charlottesville was to visit with friends, and participate in a belly blessing ceremony. It was a wonderful afternoon of laughter, sharing, stories, and song.

In little over a week after this picture was taken the beautiful Demory Marie was born.

Next stop, Cape Charles on the Chesapeake Bay. I stopped in Capeville to photograph a favorite cemetery statue. The piece was finished with textures and text.

A painterly photograph of the Cape Charles marina in the early morning.

This week of photographs ended with a re-visit of the abandoned tulips. This time more snow and a hard freeze created a new composition and a different mood.

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Overview of a Week of Photography (Week 6)

 Week 6 of my photography 365 project started with a morning ice storm after a night of bitter cold. When I did venture out the temperatures and just barely climbed over freezing - and yet the ice was melting. The sound of the ice melting from the trees sounded like rain fall. I stopped by a field of thistles to get this picture.

I think I'll end up with a whole series of these abstracts based on the stains of snow salt on stone. I see a different world every time I look at them.

The weekend included a trip to Richmond, Virginia - and an afternoon in Carytown yielded this glimpse at a secret garden.


















And, if visiting Richmond, I must make time to visit the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. I'm still working on capturing the perfect picture of Chihuly’s Red Reeds at the museum.

Back to indoor studies. Keeping flowers in the house help to remind me that spring will surely return.

A rare abandoned building in the neighborhood. It is a bit of a mystery that in this urban, densely developed neighborhood, a building sits empty and abandoned.

Wrapping up the week with another salt stain abstract. This particular abstract was modified by creating a mirror image of the image. I do this by splitting the image in half in Photoshop and putting two of the same halves together to create a new image. It's a fun technique to play with.













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Overview of a Week of Photography (Week 5)

 In the fifth week of 2014 cold weather prevailed with one brief day of blue sky sunshine. A week of work and a weekend spent in the vicinity of Charlottesville - visiting the beautiful (and empty) Swannanoa estate and the downtown Charlottesville mall. As always a chance to get away from the daily routine is refreshing and a road trip is just the thing to shape up a week of routine and sameness.

 Patterns of ice seem to emanate light and hint at other worlds.

Feathers in a dream catcher catch the last light of a setting sun.

This is a favorite window for the late afternoon light, diffused through painted glass. A fringed shawl and a sea shell collected during warmer weather complete the tableau.

Swannanoa Palace
read more about Swannanoa here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swannanoa_%28mansion%29

 A red barn sits high on a hillside farm, a punctuation mark against the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Every day calls for a little magic, a collection of colorful antique tins and two cheerful ceramic birds.

Patterns of light and dark, depths hinted at and secrets held. Winter at once exposed and hidden.













And so the week is bracketed by the cold blue brilliance of ice and by the patterns revealed by the salt stains left behind when the ice is gone.

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The Last Road Trip of 2013

I took advantage of a warm sunny day in December, the last Saturday of 2013, to head out on the road. I had grand plans to do a wide loop through the Virginia back roads, mostly I wanted to get out, to drive down roads that weren’t crowded with people, to be outside where I could see long views.

I got lost, missed a turn off, found myself in places unplanned. My plans, like much of life, shifted and evolved. Instead of worrying about how I was off-track, I decided to focus on the journey, discover what I could instead of trying to stick to a schedule or even a plan.

First stop was Chapman's Mill, a grist mill built in 1742. You can read about the Mill here: http://www.chapmansmill.org/history.

Chapman's Mill, Thoroughfare Gap

Back on down the road, I stopped at the Broad Run Post office to photograph an old house sitting in a hollow, long abandoned I wonder about the people who once lived in it.

Broad Run, Virginia

I drove through the small town of Aldie, stopped at an antique store (or two). Once outside of Aldie I was on the Snickersville Turnpike, the kind of road I was looking for, narrow country roads with low stone fences on both sides, farms and estates, horses and cows, long vistas up and down valleys. I stopped to ponder a statue erected to the Civil War Battle of Aldie. The Battle of Aldie took place on June 17, 1863, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign.

Monument to the Battle of Aldie

My ultimate goal was to find the small town of Unison, Virginia. I passed the Mountville Church, now being used as an office building.

Mountville Church, circa 1852

The road to Unison was unpaved, and still wet from melted snows.

The road to Unison

Along the road to Unison

Unison was a small hamlet, sweetly hidden. I definitely want to go back. From Unison, it was more back roads to Route 50, I made one more stop at the Mount Zion church. 

Mt. Zion Old School Baptist Church, built in 1851, sits at the intersection of the Old Carolina Road and the Little River Turnpike – once a main crossroad in Loudoun County. The church was at the center of much of the area's history, particularly the Civil War. Many churches and other buildings were put into service during the Civil War, but few saw as much action as Mt. Zion.

The church was used as a military rendezvous site, prison, barracks, battleground, and hospital.  Union troops used the church as a field hospital after cavalry engagements of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville in June of 1863. July of 1864 saw military action close to the church, when Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby and his men met the Union forces from Massachusetts and New York.

I never visit Mount Zion without feeling a little bit haunted. The trees around the church lean in  to embrace it.

Mount Zion, circa 1851

After stopping at Mount Zion, it was a straight shot through to Route 50 and home. So ends the last road trip of 2013, there will be many more road trips in 2014 - each with it's own flavor and discoveries.