latest adventures in chalk drawing

You know when you photocopy something from a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy--you know how generations down from the master, the results get a little weird-looking? The image or text is shrunken, and bits have somehow ceased to transfer, and other bits get blobby, and maybe the whole thing is streaked or gray, or misaligned now? That's what my mind-on-pandemic-and-Trump feels like. In an effort to get back to the master copy, I've been doing things like ....

New chalk drawing! I copied the seal of New England Central Railroad, the freight line whose tracks I interact with all the time. NECR's storied history extends back to the distant year of 1995, when the former Central Vermont Railway got a name change after being sold by CN (Canadian National Railway) to RailTex, a transportation holding company specializing in short lines that five years later was itself sold and became part of RailAmerica--another transportation holding company specializing in short lines. (Thank you, Wikipedia!) (Now it's owned by Genesee & Wyoming, another short-line freight company .... Thank you, NECR website.)

Here is the seal:



And here is the chalk drawing:



... It is on the concrete by one of the places where NECR rests sidelined cars. A sign declares the town:



Sidelined cars, carrying "forest products"




Other things I've been doing include collecting Concord grapes from where they spill over the chainlink fence around the supermarket parking lot ...



And doing portraits of the apples from our apple tree ...