Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Books, movies, art, theater, conservation, and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline. 
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Dang, I thought some of the images were familiar. I'm guilty of reblogging Douglas Levere's rephotography project. Which is sort of appropriate, I suppose. Well, at least I can call attention to the Atget Rephotographic Project, which revisits venues in Paris from the first quarter of the twentieth century; the very fine Vertigo... Then and Now, which goes back to the San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's 1950s thriller (I perform my own pilgrimage to those locations whenever I'm in the Bay Area); and (while it's not limited to rephotography) , Jeff Gates's In Our Path, which documents the before and after of the protracted construction of the Century Freeway (I-105) in Los Angeles. (Thanks to Shari Simonds's net.dispatch for the Vertigo link.)
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It's deer season, but not for hunters. The county has issued a press release featuring driving tips for avoiding and mitigating collisions. Sad, but necessary.
(Peak deer movement in the fall coincides with the time change back to standard time. This shifts rush hour into darkness hindering a driver's ability to see deer.)
* * * If you cannot avoid hitting a deer, slow down and grasp the steering wheel firmly with both hands. Take your foot off the brake at the time of impact so the front end of your vehicle will lift up and enable the deer to go under the car, rather than over it (reducing the danger of it crashing through the windshield or windows). If the animal is injured or killed, report the collision through the non-emergency line at (703)691-2131.
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Another species of genus Osedax has been described: O. mucofloris was found munching on whale bones off the coast of Sweden. (Thanks to a number of sources.)
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Douglas Levere rephotographs Berenice Abbott's New York scenes from the 1930s.
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