Faces on the Wall

McCutcheon's plant building wall now features portraits of famous folks of the area: to include my kinsman Charles Carroll of Carrollton. They even have a politically incorrect portrait of a Confederate General before his Rebel Battle Flag (Maupin?). Good for McCutcheon's. Their preserves, by the way, are wonderful.

Dancing Bear

Another fine example of carved art for advertisement in this image of a dancing bear. He stands before a fully mechanical toy store on Market Street: Dancing Bear Toys. I couldn't get away from the thought of the Grateful Dead and wonder of the entrepreneur who stated this store was a fan
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The Winter that Wasn't

The first day of February and it seems like May. Lots of folk are out in Baker Park enjoying the Global Warming here in Frederick -- like the father and daughter who are flying this kite with the bell tower in the background.
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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