One of my very favorite blogs, Callalillie,has decided after five years of consistent blogging, to call it quits. She was one of the first brooklyn blogs I ever read and I always enjoyed Corie’s intelligent musings about interesting things. Here’s her new “About” page:

My name is Corie Trancho-Robie. This blog was a place for me to share my thoughts about random life, ranging from personal to academic. I kept it up for about five years and then decided that it was time to move on. A bit about me, even though I am gone:

Two areas of my personal and academic study revolve around the social histories of Officer’s/Admiral’s Row at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the East River Homes [aka The Cherokee Apartments, aka The Shively Sanitary Tenements], located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I am also fascinated by the relationship between architecture and the social history of public schools, particularly in New York City.

I live in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with my husband and our four cats: Irving, Olive, Olga and Frieda. Irving has allergies, Olive gets picked on, Olga is fat and Frieda has a black coat with white panties.

From time to time I collect cat whiskers. If you find some, send them to me.

From time to time, Corie would post found photographs. I loved this feature of her blog, as well as her interest in urban history:

Landscape, Found

She found photos by someone named Arthur E:

We Found You on Beard Street

She once posted a picture of her grandmoher skydiving over eastern Long Island:

Grandmother in flight.

And she and photographer Alexis Robie of Lex’s Folly got married before our eyes:

Celebration, part I

We had a blast!

Callalillie, what can I say. You inspired me and I’m sorry to see you go. But I know you’re onto newer and even more creative things in your life. I look forward to whatever you decide to do next.