Today's Digital Image Archive

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November  2000
28		medium	There's something so sad and frustrating about this lost jacket in the schoolyard next door.  It's been there a week.  Some kid has probably been through lots of grief.  It would be such a simple thing to connect the kid and the jacket.  But, it was there again this morning, sparkled with dew.
27		medium	She needs a few new planks.
25		medium	Exposed wood on a not-too-healthy young live oak on the bank in the Inner Harbor Park.
22		medium	An abused sailboat.  It's been hanging on that mooring untended for months.  The mast is down and it's full of water, on the bottom.
21		medium	A great blue heron doing the wintertime, later afternoon goofy pose.
20		medium	Detail of the wing of a dove that chose my front porch as the place to expire.
19		medium	And, one more.  There was a group waiting impatiently for scraps from the men cleaning fish.
18		medium	Pelican in profile, perched on a piling.  With pines.
17		medium	I'd include a copy of that pelican poem, but I'm sure everyone knows it already.
16		medium	Cosmetically, it's a mouth that could send a dentist into cardiac arrest.  Functionally, those teeth allow the sheepshead to chew  barnacles.   (I know. The focus and depth of field are horrible.  Handheld shot, confused autofocus mechanism, .... the usual excuses.)
15		medium	A detail from the mosaic mural at the Ocean Springs Civic Center.   The design is Mac Anderson's.
14		medium	My neighbor, Anne, gave me a seed pod from an evergreen wisteria vine a few weeks ago.  It was green, so I left it on my desk to dry.  This afternoon, there was a loud metallic snap and something skittered across the floor.   One of the seeds landed nearly six feet away.  Quite a dispersal technique.
13		medium	Five from Mississippi.  Did we have adequate reason to demand from them what we did?  Are we wiser today?
12		medium	A portion of the west side of the Mississippi Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  58,000+ Americans lost their lives in Vietnam, doing what our country required of them.  If we citizens and our government had done our jobs as well as these young men, most of those 58,000 would be with us today.
11		medium	The sun set at 4:59 and the full moon rose 16 minutes later.   It was a dramatic night to be on the bay.
10		medium	Seagulls clamoring for a sunset snack.
9		medium	A spectral pattern cast on the front wall of the house by the reflector on my bike.
6		medium	Sophie.  Her voice is every bit as loud as her colors.  If you could put about 100,000 volts across the flesh of a ripe mango, you might create a hint of the color of her undersides.
5		medium	Near Seagrove beach.  I've never seen this done before and I wouldn't have believed that it was possible for a common pickup truck to pull that rig up the beach.  They made it look easy.
4		medium	Fred shows off his colors.
3		medium	Howard, at ease on the porch.
2		medium	They just heard about Colonel Sanders for the first time.
1		medium	The porch looks out over virgin longleaf pines, alive with the reality and the promise of red-cockaded woodpeckers.

All images copyright 2000 by D. W. Abrams.  Unauthorized duplication or use is prohibited.