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Monday, March 31, 2014

Rock Creek Park Woods in March 2014



Notice the softening of the light taking place over just a few days at the end of March.  The color tone shifts from black and grey to warmer blue, yellow and brown.



CHFM Volunteer Days

Spring begins volunteer cleanup days in the woods around Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting.

 David Bower, Volunteer Coordinator for Philadelphia Parks & Rec, gives a thank you to volunteer team from Holderness School in Plymouth, NH.



 Damaged and fallen pine boughs are collected and then carried away for chipping and shredding.






Ginger the dog is an important part of the work team!

Dragging Away Abandoned Tent and Trash

 Dragging.
 Carrying.
Smiling.

Taking Out a Fencepost Set in Concrete




Initial digging.










Advice.





Leverage.














Below, lifting.


Cool Art

 'Tinzenhorn,' by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.  1919.  Pastel.  From the Bruecke Museum in Berlin.



 'Wind Map,' by Fernanda Bertini Viegas and Martin Wattenberg.  2012.  Custom software showing wind patterns from NWS data.  In the Museum of Modern Art and also available online at 



Airline flight paths map the United States.  In the Museum of Modern Art.


'Urbino Tea Service,' Trude Petri-Raben.  1930.  Glazed porcelain.  Museum of Modern Art.

Several Images from Philips Gallery Collection

Duncan Phillips and his wife created a small and very fine collection of art.  It is open to the public in Washington DC.  There is an entry fee.  http://www.phillipscollection.org/index.aspx



'Aspiration," by Augustus Vincent Tack.  1931.  Oil on canvas




'The Mediterranean,' by Gustave Courbet.  1857.  




'New York, Lower Manhattan,' by Stefan Hirsch.  1921.



'The Migration Series, Panel no. 59:  In the North they had the freedom to vote,' by Jacob Lawrence.  1940-41.  Casein tempera on hardboard.