The Rabbit Hole USA

Via Neatorama

First of all, check out this amazing photo taken in West Townsend by Patrick Campagnone. You can click the photo to see more of his work. Secondly, help is needed this Saturday to clear Townsend trails. Many trails were made nearly impassable by that ice storm.

From the Sentinel and Enterprise article:

Volunteers are asked to meet at Doyle Conservation Center between 8 and 9 a.m. or noon and 1 p.m. Saturday. Crews will be out clearing trails from 9 p.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

My own personal rule is to never complain about the weather. I have experienced a brutal -40. That hurt. After that, most everything else is a walk in the park, so to say. But, if I were one to complain, I might say something about the prodigious amount of snow this winter.

Thanks to Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Silver..cool, originally uploaded by BunnyStudios.

apropos of nothing…
other than its a rabbit with sunglasses

The Solitary Vice: Against Reading by Mikita Brottman

Quote from The Solitary Vice: Against Reading (Which is not really against reading):

“Memories of reading can often be far more complex than memories of ‘real’ events, since, as Prouste explains ‘factual’ memories, like your personal situation and social situation and social context at the time of reading, with the power of aesthetic experience. So when you think of a book that had a profound impact on you, you often can’t help help but remember what you were doing and where you were when you first read it.”

A few Flickr Photos tagged reading:

Photo by Racheal Sian

From the Washington Post:

Survey Shows Reversal Of Longstanding Trend

For the first time since the NEA began surveying American reading habits in 1982 — and less than five years after it issued its famously gloomy “Reading at Risk” report — the percentage of American adults who report reading “novels, short stories, poems or plays” has risen instead of declining: from 46.7 percent in 2002 to 50.2 percent in 2008.