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Shelley Lake #1
October 2005 Raleigh, NC
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This shot was taken mid-week last week at Shelley Lake, a local lake and park in the North Raleigh area.  We used to visit the part on a regular basis when we lived out at the old farmhouse -- it was a great place to take dogs for a walk and to get away from things for a while.

I like this shot, both for the colors of the leaves and the colors in the water.  However, the best water-reflection image I've seen in many a moon belongs to ruralrob from his posting today.  (Fourth image down)  It's really a very fine piece of work by a man with a good eye for art in nature and in urban settings.

We spent the weekend fighting off illness and cleaning the house for Seren (who was supposed to come today but didn't).  We eventually ducked out of the house on Sunday afternoon long enough to run a few necessary errands and to catch "Good Night, and Good Luck" at the Rialto Theater in town.

Edward R. Murrow has been a hero of mine for most of my life, ever since I first read about what he did both with his rooftop radio broadcasts during the Battle of Britian and with his work to expose and bring down Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.  He is, to my mind, what a journalist should be, plain and simple.

The film was good, but I was already prepared to be a fan.  The B&W cinematography was spot on, the acting was good and the whole look and feel of the 50s was captured on film quite well, I thought.  It helped that I knew the story already (and had read a brief biography of Murrow the night before we saw the film) but it's still one I'm looking forward to owing on DVD when it comes out.

From Murrow:

" We will not walk in fear of one another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular."

-- Edward R. Murrow, March 9, 1954

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