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Ok, I admit I’ve been taking pictures while driving again. This is from a few weeks ago when I made a trip up to north Alabama. (For the full effect, click through to the larger version.) Up in Chilton county, 200 hundred miles or so from here (300 km or so), they grow really, really…
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This morning’s local paper had a letter from a transplanted Englishman (an acquaintance of mine, actually) complaining that the various Union Jacks being flown around Mobile are upside down. (They’re part of displays commemorating the fact that in the course of its history the city has been under a number of different flags.) This came…
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It was just a couple of days ago that I got around to reading Ross Douthat’s review of the new Brideshead adaptation in the Sept.1 National Review. Many of us had concluded from the publicity that it was going to be really bad and we weren’t interested in seeing it. If Douthat is right, so…
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Craig Burrell says he’s found it, and I’m inclined to agree. See what you think. (This, by the way, is an appropriate use of the word “inappropriate”.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Ave Maris Stella The period from roughly the quarter moon through the three-quarter moon gives me of lot of pleasure if the nights are clear or partly clear. That’s when my nightly walk with the dogs, which usually happens somewhere between nine and eleven (maybe later on weekends), gives me a chance to see the…
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No greater art was created in the 20th century than the best of Bergman’s films, and this is one of them. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I listened to this album once and thought “wow, that’s brilliant, in a twisted sort of way.” Then several months went by before I got around to listening to it again, I think partly because I was in no big hurry to revisit the twisted part. When I finally did, I half-expected to change my…
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I'm not going to pretend I'm sorry that Hurrican Ike is not coming here. But I really do feel for the people in its path. As you may or may not know, it's bearing down on Galveston, which was hit by a hurricane in 1900 that resulted in the greatest loss of life of any…
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I walked out the door one day last week and heard a repeated low buzzing sound that I’d never heard before. I finally realized that it was coming from this heron perched in a dead tree across the creek. The normal heron noise is loud and ugly—something like a crow’s call but lower in pitch…
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It seems that Sarah Palin’s nomination has driven the entire country and parts of the rest of the world completely crazy. On the left, the mere sight of her and her family apparently sends some people into a frenzy. Mark Shea and Rod Dreher (see links in sidebar) have been documenting a lot of this.…
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