I set out to go through all my charts and pick out my 20 favorites and show those, 5 at a time, in four posts today.
I failed at this task, because even with so many positions, I can't pick out 20 favorites. Virtually all of them are beautiful, and it would be a false distinction for me to call out any particular ones as extra-marvelous.
Here' a funny anecdote, though. A friend of mine, who is a frequent commenter on this blog, emailed me to tell me Steve Jobs' house was surrounded by black SUVs. Being the intrepid investigative journalist that I am, I hopped into my car and raced over there. By the time I arrived, there was just one black SUV left – – a gigantic Lincoln Navigator with a large and somewhat dangerous-looking chap inside – – parked at a discrete distance from Jobs' house.
I'm not sure if there's been a threat of some kind or if there is just a particularly aggressive landscaping service surveying the lawn to put together a quote for the Jobs household – – but I didn't feel like taking a picture of the scene for fear of having my iPhone involuntarily inserted into an unsuspecting orifice. So you'll just have to take my word for it.
