Letterman

Who needs a big three when you have a big two? (at North Carolina State Capitol)

Two cousins. Three fans. (at Wendell, North Carolina)

#blissed (at Cameron Indoor Stadium)

...Y is for Yale and Z is for Zzz... (at Yale University)

...a kind of fugue state opens up inside you where your concentration telescopes toward a still point and you lose awareness of your limbs and the soft shush of your shoe's slide and whatever's outside the lines of the court, and pretty much all you know then is the bright ball and the octangled butterfly outline of its trail across the billiard green of the court. - David Foster Wallace, Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley In fact, someone playing "out of his mind " is more aware of the ball, the court, and, when necessary, his opponent. But he is not aware of giving himself a lot of instructions, thinking about how to hit the ball, how to correct past mistakes or how to repeat what he just did. He is conscious, but not thinking, not over-trying. A player in this state knows where he wants the ball to go, but he doesn’t have to “try hard” to send it there. It just seems to happen... - Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis (at International Tennis Hall of Fame)

New Penzance. (at Jamestown, Rhode Island)

It’s called Cliff Walk because you walk along some cliffs. (at Cliff Walk - Newport RI, 02840)

Ocean Drive, Road Island. (at Ocean Drive Historic District)

Half light. (at Castle Hill Inn)

$1.4 million original 1901 price tag, $300,000 summer party budget (again early 1900s dollars), 60,000 sq ft, 48 rooms, 40 species of trees (including elms of course), 10 acre property, 3 fountains and 2 sculptures of lions killing alligators. (at The Elms (Newport, Rhode Island))

Algerian rose marble. (at Marble House)

After finally finishing the restoration of Rosecliff in 1941, Ray Alan Van Clief died en route to spending his first night in the mansion. (at Rosecliff)

The Vanderbilt’s “summer cottage”. (at The Breakers)

Checking out Brown’s business school. (at Brown University)

Edgar Allen Poe got dumped here. (at The Providence Athenæum)

By design. (at Rhode Island School of Design)

Divine. (at Providence, Rhode Island)