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AUGUST
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JULY
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JUNE
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MAY
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APRIL
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MARCH
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FEBRUARY
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JANUARY
01 | 02 | 03 | 04

2 0 0 4

DECEMBER 05
DECEMBER 04
DECEMBER 03
DECEMBER 02
DECEMBER 01

NOVEMBER 04

NOVEMBER 03

NOVEMBER 02
NOVEMBER 01

OCTOBER 05

OCTOBER 04
OCTOBER 03

OCTOBER 02

OCTOBER 01

SEPTEMBER 04
SEPTEMBER 03
SEPTEMBER 02
SEPTEMBER 01
AUGUST 04
AUGUST 03
AUGUST 02
AUGUST 01
JULY 05
JULY 04
JULY 03
JULY 02
JULY 01
JUNE 04
JUNE 03
JUNE 02
JUNE 01
MAY 04
MAY 03
MAY 02
MAY 01
APRIL 05
APRIL 04
APRIL 03
APRIL 02
APRIL 01
MARCH 04
MARCH 03
MARCH 02
MARCH 01
FEBRUARY 04
FEBRUARY 03
FEBRUARY 02
FEBRUARY 01
JANUARY 05
JANUARY 04
JANUARY 03
JANUARY 02
JANUARY 01

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DECEMBER 04
DECEMBER 03

DECEMBER 02
DECEMBER 01
NOVEMBER 04
NOVEMBER 03
N
OVEMBER 02
NOVEMBER 01
OC
TOBER 03
OCTOBER 02
OCTOBER 01
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST 02
AUG
UST 01
JULY 02
JULY 01
JUNE 02
JUNE 01
MAY 02
MAY 01
APRIL 02
APRIL 01
MARCH
FEBRUARY

JANUARY


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DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
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JULY
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MAY

APRIL

MARCH

FEBRUARY

JANUARY

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OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
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JULY
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MAY

APRIL

MARCH

FEBRUARY

JANUARY

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DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE

MAY

APRIL

MARCH

FEBRUARY

JANUARY

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DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE

MAY

APRIL

MARCH

FEBRUARY

JANUARY

1 9 9 8

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
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MAY

APRIL

MARCH

FEBRUARY

JANUARY

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Kitchen window
Overlapping plants.

SEPTEMBER, 2005







S E P T E M B E R   2 4 ,   2 0 0 5

ABOVE Via Colori. Music stage after dark.

Via Colori by luminaria
We stopped back to walk the streets and pick up some ice cream at the Jeni's stand. We shared a cup of wildberry & lavender, salty caramel, dark cocoa and cinnamon.

 

Giselle
BalletMet at the Ohio Theater. We weren't late; it only seemed like it (to me).

From the program's History of Giselle:

Giselle was conceived by French author Theophile Gautier to honor dancer Carlotta Grisi, with whom he was in love.

The entire second act takes place at night in a forest haunted by the "vengeful, ghostly Wilis, jilted maidens who died before their wedding night." The Wilis "emerge at night and force any man who enters their domain to dance to his death."

Putting aside the somewhat odd form of murder (imagine homicide by dancing (there must be a more clinical way to describe that) on a coroner's report), the lead character, Giselle, becomes a Wili but saves the man who jilted her from homicide by dancing because of the powerful bond of love she has for him.

Is this really the sort of story you would write for a woman you love?

Of course the history goes on to say that Grisi's dances in the ballet were choreographed by her common law husband, so perhaps those relationships were just a lot more complicated than the historians had space to explicate.

BalletMet has a new director of marketing and communications this year, and Amy was very pleased to see that copy editing of the program was greatly improved. Last year's lack of editing had been very distracting.

 

ABOVE Via Colori. One artist's creation.

Via Colori
Started off with rain and thunder all Saturday morning, but it had tapered off by 10.30 when we picked up our chalk and attempted to get started.

My location was described as "over yonder," or more precisely as area 1, square 5. The areas, however, were not numbered. And there were no squares drawn on the pavement in the general vicinity of what I had interpreted "yonder" to be.

Getting to the park was challenging itself, this year. And I tried it twice Saturday morning. OSU's football league opener drew trraffic off I-670 at the same exit, and by the time I reeturned from a brief jaunt home to look through a computer case (the alleged mouse must have escaped before I got home), a wedding (BELOW) had claimed a lane of traffic right at Neil and Goodale, at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

By then, however, the squares had appeared and the pavement was perfect for laying down a base of chalk with the damp lingering on just enough to smooth the color over the asphalt.

The rain did not return and I got in a good day's work before rushing home at 6.30 to shower and change for the ballet.

 

 


S E P T E M B E R   2 3 ,   2 0 0 5

ABOVE At the Berry Bolt Building. Reception for Via Colori participants.

Mi Mexico
The suburban version, complete with considerable wait. Plus they seemed to have borrowed El Vacquero's menu (including the numbers given to different dishes -- which go up to 200 or so). Oddly enough.

 

 


S E P T E M B E R   2 2 ,   2 0 0 5

ABOVE AND BELOW Shooting for Fast Fifty. Lamborghini courtesy Nelson Auto Group. It can be yours for a mere $187,000.

 

Choir rehearsal
Six basses and six tenors -- an excellent turnout.

Bexley afterwards.

 

Donatos dinner
While trying to get Amy's laptop up on the wireless network.

 

 


S E P T E M B E R   2 1 ,   2 0 0 5

ABOVE Verbena with bee. Back garden.

 

 

 


S E P T E M B E R   2 0 ,   2 0 0 5

ABOVE Home. More black & white imagery from the front room.

From the web | Klum photography
Have been reading Monster of God, David Quammen's "meditation on hubris and its perils, framed as a report on some fearsome and astonishing creatures" [Jon Krakauer].

The present investigation is of panthera leo persica, the Asian lion, which remains only in the Gir forest of India. The fewer than 500 lions live in close quarters with the Maldhari people, whose "ness" compounds made of tree branches are their limited protection for huts, people and livestock.

I enjoy seeing with my eyes as well as with my mind, so here are some pictures, as close as I can get to seeing actual Maldharis, from the Gir forest and surrounds.

Maldharis | Gir forest

 

Correction
The Sunday dessert was Amish apple cinnamon cake with butter sauce.
We regret the error.
Link

 

Flipping frenzy | Dispatch
Wealthy investors profit from run-down houses | Link

This much is clear: The Stillwater Asset Backed Fund since February 2004 has loaned more than $30 million, financing the buying and reselling of more than 500 vacant houses in Ohio, 390 of them in Columbus, county auditor and recorder records show.

Sellers significantly marked up the price for their properties. Stillwater representatives recruited buyers, at least some of whom say they never saw the houses, and paid them $300 to $1,000 to sign for the Stillwater loans on assurances that the houses would be fixed up and resold before any payments came due.

But these ‘‘straw buyers," many of them young apartment dwellers with low or moderate incomes, have been saddled with houses, unpaid tax bills and city citations for unsafe conditions at houses for which they don’t even have keys.

The houses remained empty.

And the hedge fund and mortgage brokers collected fees on each transaction.

Stillwater officials, including the firm’s managing partners, Richard Rudy and Jack Doueck, did not return numerous telephone messages and e-mails seeking comment.

The property at 1047 E. Sycamore St. is typical.

‘‘I’ve become numb to it after all these years," said neighbor Ritchy Smith, an accountant who in 1992 bought and fixed up his brick house with a porch swing, expecting a neighborhood revival. Instead, it’s gone downhill, scarred by ever more empty and dilapidated houses.

‘‘Isn’t it sad?"

On the Near East Side, Freda Wyche lives two doors down from a Lilley Avenue house with a rotting second story that sags over the front porch. She raised three daughters on this once-pleasant street.
Now young men skulk in and out of the abandoned duplex at odd hours.

‘‘It’s horrible," she said. ‘‘I think they use it as a drug house."

It also was financed by Stillwater.

I'm still trying to figure out where the money is actually coming from in these transactions.

 

 


S E P T E M B E R   1 9 ,   2 0 0 5

ABOVE Cannas front for the NavStar sculpture. From Saturday at the Franklin Park Conservatory.

The most exciting ever ...
Estate Planning Guide went to press. It was only exciting in that it occupied so little of my concern.

 

 

 


S E P T E M B E R   1 8 ,   2 0 0 5

ABOVE Front staircase. Prints of Columbus After Dark in background.

Dinner in Bexley
Ham and potatos, and Amy brought the Amish apple cinnamon cake with butter sauce [Corrected from original post] from the recipe from Erica.

 

Write your word upon my heart| John Parker III, Lloyd Larson
Sang the choir
. Sermon on the demolition of fairness evidenced in the parable of the landowner who paid the usual daily wage to all he hired to work in the vineyards -- some had worked all day, some half, and some merely an hour.

 

 

 

 
 

 


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