burnt embers

This chalkboard is on a rock promontory at the Friday Harbor Laboratories, a University of Washington facility for marine biology researchers. I just spent the weekend there visiting family, as I have done nearly every year since about 1960. The chalkboard is a heavy slate one, and underneath it is a can full of chalk on a small protected shelf. Transitory art is placed here, and obviously the occasional memorial too. It lasts as long as the rains or next artist will allow.

I did not know who MCA was so I had to do an internet search to find out that he was a rapper, aka Adam Yauch, who performed with the Beastie Boys, and died on May 5th. You can see an obituary here if you care to read about him.

This is a wonderfully peaceful memorial, even if it only lasted for a week or so (it rained heavily a day after I took this picture, so it is likely gone now). Everyone deserves this kind of attention at least once in their lives.

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Canon 5Dii, Nikkor-N, 24mm, f2.8 pre-ai lens, ISO 100, ~f8, 1/80th second, just after dawn.

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