
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. Ansel Adams
Bull Run Battle Field, Virginia.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend
Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Woodnotes"
Manassas Battle Field

The 4th of July we were invited at a friends farm here in Fauquier County. The oldest part is from 1760, that's where I discovered these beautiful curtains from India.