Reinventing the Past
I’ve been working in downtown Plano, Tx, for a few years now, and during that time my interest in transporation and urban planning have grown. Every time I’m driving around town and I see the DART light rail train, it just makes me smile. I love it. Many people don’t know that between 1908 and 1948, North Texas had a very cool commuter rail system – the Texas Electric R

Farmers Markets and luxury
Saw this on a thread on the message board of kunstlercast.com, relating to the recent podcast there about food. One of the participants brings up some common objections to farmer’s markets as being mostly for the wealthy. I enjoyed Duncan’s (the host) reply. I think he’s exactly right. The only thing I’d say is a problem is that we don’t haven enough farmers markets or grow enough of our own food at home in our own gardens. Quote from: jarober on October 01, 2009, 03:42:32 PM What you miss is simple: farmer’s markets are expensive luxury items, not a sust

Something cool
cover37WIP Originally uploaded by aeneastudio Love this artist’s stuff. Very clever.

To Bee or not to Bee
IMG_5803 Originally uploaded by bibliosk8er Just a picture of a bee in our garden. As we have gotten more nice plants back there, more bees have been showing up in our square foot gardens. Real cool.

Research through images
Not that I have anything particularly insightful to say about it, but flickr.com has become a very powerful research tool for this librarian. Sometimes you just don’t know what you are looking for until you see it. Lately I’ve been researching sustainable/green technologies for homes, and being able to browse through millions of images to gather information is really helpful. I’m also blown away by the diversity and niche-ish-ness available from the various groups on flickr. For example, today I happened upon this group devoted to pens. Yes – pens. Good pens. Some really nice photography