When the shuttle flew into Dulles recently, I heard this topic come up on the radio. People were massed around… everyone holding up a cellphone or camera to take pictures. Quote from a Washington Post article: “I wanted everyone to put down their cellphones and cameras and just look at the thing with their own [...]
We had snow/sleet/freezing mist last night that left some neat rime ice formations on the trees. My other Virginia Wildlife and Weather Photoblog has the photos. Quote of the Week is from Audrey T. Hingley in the January 2012 Coop Living magazine’s Saying NO to the e-Addiction: I want to have a life and as [...]
Weekend Links Facebook, the uncertain future: Facebookâs rapid growth has shown its first signs of deceleration. The social-media site recently faced its first domestic decline in users in a year, with a loss of 6 million accounts in May… Have a safe and relaxing Independence Day Weekend! See: Photo of Festivities at Low-Tech Times HQ [...]
Train Tuesdays While railfans are anxiously anticipating the new Norfolk Southern Steam Program featuring veteran Southern Railway locomotives, N&W Class J 611 and Class A 1218 are on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The static display was brought to life recently, thanks to Lerro Productions in cooperation with the Virginia Museum of Transportation. [...]
Train Tuesdays I already ordered and received my 2010 O. Winston Link calendar. The calendar features great black and white prints from O. Winston Link’s work artfully documenting the last days of mainline steam railroading in the U.S. on the Norfolk & Western Railway during the 1950s. In addition to capturing the steam engines in [...]