Musical Railing --Tyler's Spite House

Frederick Courthouse Square
This is one of the more ornate old wrought iron stair railings that I've found. It dresses the front of an old c. 1795 Federal style home named for Chief Justice Tyler. I would think this rail addition came from a much later age than Tyler's (1850s) and perhaps the music stands are to signify the old house was home to the local music master and his school.
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Resistance is Futile

Found on Patrick near Market
Cute sign along the sidewalk. Effective marketing using a truth. Sometimes I feels like this, usually when it seems that all is in a big flow toward some ultimate change. So it is with the Information Age in my generation. Resistance will not change the direction nor or even slow the current. It is like a mighty flood taking all before it. The little sign captures that sense. So another photo is captured on electronic media in a series of bits composed of "1s" and "0s", conveyed in an electronic message sent over the airwaves from a mini-computer, stored in an enormous capacity site thousands of miles away in a millisecond and posted on the World Wide Web immediately in a complex computer language. Yep, resistance is futile in this complex society if you want to play the game

Brookeville Angel

Always on the lookout for carved art I came across this prize that was carved for the town's bicentennial in 1994. It is supposed to represent Gabriel the arc angle. It was stored in a barn for some years and then brought to the Brookeville Academy grounds

Brookeville--Capital for a Day

This is a little village north of Olney Maryland that served as the Capital nearly 200 years ago on 26 August 1814. There a several very interesting homes from the early 1800s and a few from a bit later . This is worth a stop if you get a chance and like old architecture.

The waking guide may be found here.
http://townofbrookevillemd.org/wt_page2.html

Courthouse Commandments

Adams County Pennsylvania
This very old bronze plaque show the 10 commandment (BCP translation). It was donated by the Sunday Schools. I picked up a small set of tablets from the local Hallmark store last week for display at home.

Asahi Super Takumar 50mm f1.4, 8- element

Classic lens acquired on a junk Pentax for $10.00. This find is hard to beat. This lens competes on equal footing with the very finest 50mm for the 35mm film format ever made, and may be the best in certain respects. Asahi reportedly went after the famous Karl Zeiss 50mm f1.4 and created a masterpiece -- albeit slightly radioactive :)
-- taken with my Blackberry Curve on 3x zoom with flash. I suspect my little Nikon FG-20 will soon step up in the world of photography when I get my Nikon M42 adapter and this Super Takumar 1.4 mounted :)

"The Hair After"

Westminster MD
I appreciated the play of words on the attractive sign "The Hair After" -- read more to see why in this place. This sign seems a bit incongruous as it appears on a nicely preserved antebellum building across from the Welcome Center and Carroll County Historical Society. This county was named after my kinsman Charles Carroll and was the site of a small battle (Corbitt's Charge) as a troop of Delaware Cavalry struck Stewart's Confederate column that was part of the ANV force operating in Maryland and Pennsylvania before Gettysburg. They fought another skirmish down by Grace Church and the Courthouse where two lie buried--awaiting their fate on that Last Great Judgment Day in "The Here After"
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Free Chief Liberty!

Libertytown MD
MLK Day "Set my people free".
The morning sun brightly illuminates the weathered cigar-store Indian being held outside of this old antique and table shop exposed to all the elements. The chief was securely fastened to the building with heavy chain so no passer-by with "sticky fingers" would try to "liberate him" from Libertytown. I may come back later when the store opens to see how much ransom it would take to set him free. I am looking for a quiet sort of fellow to share my apartment :)
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Man in the Mural

Frederick
Some months ago I came across an real artist I spoke with who I presumed was "painting himself" into a mural here along Lord Nickens Street at Market. My wife was interested in the rest of the story, so I returned and captured this shot today. The man in the mural is actually shown placing the last tile on the mural to finish it. Because of the scaffolding this summer, I was not able then to see that the tiles stand away to create a beautiful mosaic in several parts (e.g., starfish, gull, crescent, and frame)--while other "tiles" are faux art, as is the "last tile" that he seemingly places on the frame. Well done ;)
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For Crying Out Loud

Graffiti in Frederick. East Church Street
For a city famous for its faux art and murals this bit of free art by someone struck me as quite creative. The name seemed some how to cry out to me.