No, this is not the Winged Adventure's brig, nor has Morgan Corbye found herself on the wrong side of the bars in some colonial prison. This is a storeroom now, but it was once the jail at Longmire. It is in the basement of the Administration Building where I work, and until today, I didn't know it existed. I'd gone hunting for furnace ductwork and cobwebs or a broom closet, or some place equally forbidding and photographically irresistible. I did not expect to find a dungeon beneath my sunny workspace, faint light sifting into the cell. It was worth a trip back up the stairs to borrow a tripod. Oh, but the potential for a story lurks in these shadows, and I suspect that at some point in the not-too-distant future, a certain pirate captain may find herself temporarily housed in these lavish accommodations. Rumour has it that she's planning another raid...
365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Barred
No, this is not the Winged Adventure's brig, nor has Morgan Corbye found herself on the wrong side of the bars in some colonial prison. This is a storeroom now, but it was once the jail at Longmire. It is in the basement of the Administration Building where I work, and until today, I didn't know it existed. I'd gone hunting for furnace ductwork and cobwebs or a broom closet, or some place equally forbidding and photographically irresistible. I did not expect to find a dungeon beneath my sunny workspace, faint light sifting into the cell. It was worth a trip back up the stairs to borrow a tripod. Oh, but the potential for a story lurks in these shadows, and I suspect that at some point in the not-too-distant future, a certain pirate captain may find herself temporarily housed in these lavish accommodations. Rumour has it that she's planning another raid...
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Admin Building,
jail,
Longmire,
MORA
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