Archive for March, 2010
Easter in Sugar Hill, 1940
Posted in Historical Information, Misc Holiday, photographs, tagged 1940, easter, franconia, historical photograph, new hampshire on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Easter Parade, NYC
Posted in Fashion, Historical Information, Misc Holiday, photographs, tagged 1908, easter, Easter parade, Fifth Avenue, historical photograph, NYC on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A superstition current in Tudor times held that unless a person had new homespun cloth available at Easter, moths and crickets would eat the old goods, and destructive rooks would nest in large numbers around the residence. An old Irish adage stated “For Christmas, food and drink; for Easter, new clothes,” and a 15th-century proverb [...]
Same as it ever was
Posted in music, Videos, tagged music video, Talking Heads on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Easter in Chicago, 1942
Posted in Historical Information, Misc Holiday, photographs, tagged chicago, easter, historical photograph on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Eggstremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!
Posted in Comic Relief, how we live, tagged dumb criminals on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It wasn’t egg-zackly a brilliant plan … Perhaps Mr. Demin is eggnostic?
Easter Parade, NYC
Posted in Historical Information, Misc Holiday, photographs, tagged 1903, easter, historical photograph, large format photography, NYC on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This photograph is fascinating to me. Fifth Avenue looks like a stage set. Everything is so clean, and the everything is so incredibly sharp and detailed. The image was taken using an 8×10 format camera. Exquisite. To see it larger, right click and choose “view image.” I’ll be putting more Easter photographs up through Sunday.
Only the good die young
Posted in music, Videos, tagged Jeff Hanson, music video on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What a shame.
Happy Spring!
Posted in Flowers & Other Plants, how we live, photographs, tagged photograph, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, spring, vernal equinox on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
