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Ed Spadoni > Faneuil Hall & the Test of the Gilded Grasshopper (View X2) 1/30/2010 Faneuil Hall, located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1742. It was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain, and is now part of Boston National Historical Park and a well known stop on the Freedom Trail. It is sometimes referred to as "the Cradle of Liberty". The gilded grasshopper weather vane on top of the building was created by silversmith Shem Drowne in 1742. Gilded with gold leaf the copper weather vane weighs eighty pounds and is four feet long. Knowledge of the grasshopper was used as a test to determine if people were spies during the Revolution period. The people would ask suspected spies the identity of the object on the top of Faneuil Hall; if they answered correctly, then they were free; if not, they were convicted as British spies. (Wikipedia)
Ed Spadoni > Field Trip! 3/12/2010
Ed Spadoni > “A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.” Richard Bach 2/12/2010 Via iPhone. For SOOI (straight out of iPhone) please view here: http://bit.ly/97fr5r
Ed Spadoni > "I think therefore I am... a bookend" 1/24/2010 Another taken with the Nikon N80 SLR
Ed Spadoni > This is Lappa! 3/9/2010 I met Lappa (Russian for "big feet") during a short walk at a nearby park yesterday. His owner Alexander told me that Lappa is "a rambunctious, teen-aged Saint Bernard", and he was so right. A beautiful dog, he was bursting with energy, and had no trouble leaping such that he and I were eye to eye (I'm 6'2"!). Alexander was camera-shy but as you can see, Lappa was not.
Ed Spadoni > Another view of our town hall, at night. Previously seen here http://bit.ly/7UCCOD and here http://bit.ly/7mUsII. An imposing building, I keep thinking "there's a picture to be made here". 1-14-2010
Ed Spadoni > “Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems.” Dan Castellaneta (as Homer Simpson) 3/5/2010 Thanks for all the comments on yesterday's "nail" image.
Ed Spadoni > Unexpected guest for breakfast 12/18/09 They're everywhere, I tell you, everywhere.
Ed Spadoni > If M. C. Escher owned an iPhone 3/8/2010 Taken with my iPhone, this is a stairway in a parking garage and some crazy pp, also on the iPhone.
"I think therefore I am... a bookend"
1/24/2010
Another taken with the Nikon N80 SLR
Ed Spadoni > "I think therefore I am... a bookend" 1/24/2010 Another taken with the Nikon N80 SLR
"I think therefore I am... a bookend"
1/24/2010
Another taken with the Nikon N80 SLR
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