The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025

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A reconsideration of Appalachia 55 years later in this dedicated project series: #Photography #DigitalCollage #ArtYear A PhotoEssay Substack by Tom Ogburn on the Great Smoky Mountains NP, Blue Ridge, Skyline Drive & Shenandoah NP

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"The great novels are full of characters whom, in actuality, we would not care to know, with whom indeed we would be bored, or whose company we would not tolerate for a second, but whose fortunes, in their story, we follow with a sympathy and understanding denied to us in everyday life." #Booksky

🌙 A young Appalachian woman holds her baby in her lap for a photographer identified as "Rinehart" to compose this wonderful image. The composition of this photo is so complex and studied that it's made me curious as to whether another photographer of greater repute than Rinehart might have made it.

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Where the world ends and infinity ensues, I give in to the peace of being evanescent #RockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #photography #MaineCoast #SchoodicPoint #Acadia #Clouds

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All that remains of family mother father children aunt uncle cousins porch across the front of a clapboard house on red brick piers Outhouse behind Trash pile behind Land cleared trees cut Living Loving Leaving take your pine grove back We’re moving to the city

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While There's So Much Positive Potential For Wildlife,Chump's Regime Is The Death Knell For Many Species. WE MUST WIN THE MIDTERMS, THEY DEPEND ON US.......

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abandoned café 6 #art #photo #photography #nightphotography #abandoned #LightAndShadow #streetsnap #Tainan #nightsky #trees #ECK ©️skinskin

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🦉CONGRATULATIONS TO VIRGINIA! 🪔 💙Thanks to Barack Obama, Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic Party of Virginia, Ghazala Hashmi, Jay Jones, L. Louise Lucas, Lamont Bagby, Scott Surovell, Kathy Tran, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Bobby Scott, Jennifer McClellan, Eugene Vindman, Don Beyer, Suhas Subramanyam!

🦉🌙 "In memory’s vision graph, I’ve pieced together all the times Grandma would go out & stand by the Persimmon tree, which we always called ‘the ‘possum tree,” or sometimes place a lawn chair under it to sit and watch the cornflowers all swaying in the wind" #DigitalCollage #SouthernGothic #Fiction

open.substack.comDreams are the realms of ghosts. And Memory.Fiction » Southern Gothic » Dreams » A start of a story, maybe a novella, in the middle

🦉🌙✨ I've gone back into the eerie gorge story I've mentioned in the past. A image first—a new, large Digital Hybrid—which is made both by analog and digital means. Began in 2022. I pulled a short segment of the words to give a bit more illumination to the Illustration story. #Gothicwords to come 🌒

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🦉"Flora Sprawl," #digitalphotograph #CarolinaCoasts This is a BIG tree—you'd be awed by is sheer audacity to survive no matter the declining odds. In a few years, it too will be a ghost tree 🌙 #Stunday #Nature #ArtYear "Endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.” #AmbroseBierce

🌙 Things have been progressing on the home front. Slow art seems to be norm for this span of time. 🦉 But. I did finally get back to writing the words on "Presence Hence," and the large, slow digital art builds will land here soon. #TheWalkerSisters #sevensisters #onebrotherinlaw #RobertShelton

🦉🌙 "In memory’s vision graph, I’ve pieced together all the times Grandma would go out & stand by the Persimmon tree, which we always called ‘the ‘possum tree,” or sometimes place a lawn chair under it to sit and watch the cornflowers all swaying in the wind" #DigitalCollage #SouthernGothic #Fiction

open.substack.comDreams are the realms of ghosts. And Memory.Fiction » Southern Gothic » Dreams » A start of a story, maybe a novella, in the middle

🦉🌙 "In memory’s vision graph, I’ve pieced together all the times Grandma would go out & stand by the Persimmon tree, which we always called ‘the ‘possum tree,” or sometimes place a lawn chair under it to sit and watch the cornflowers all swaying in the wind" #DigitalCollage #SouthernGothic #Fiction

open.substack.comDreams are the realms of ghosts. And Memory.Fiction » Southern Gothic » Dreams » A start of a story, maybe a novella, in the middle

"Usually it would be at end of day, twilight. Then, the gloaming. I’d go out there to sit with her often, until even the lavender & purple light left by the Sun, I would guess, as a child would, waned away."🌙 #MagicalRealism #Ghoststories #Story #DigitalArt #Opossums #TheParkwaysProjects #TomOgburn

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The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.