Category: color

one of Roberts Moses roads

east river view from FDR
This is a color photograph made on a grey day. Looking across the East River from the FDR.

Moses shared the prejudices of his class and time, and poor neighborhoods were not where he spent political capital.
Writer Jane Jacobs (The Death and Life of Great American Cities) fought to save neighborhoods. SoHo and the Village were not cleared but they didn’t stay working-class. Moses displaced the poor with a bulldozer. The market, in the neighborhoods he was stopped from touching, displaced the poor with outrageously expensive real estate.
Moses poured concrete when American cities were desperate for parks, bridges, and roads, and he treated the people in the way as a cost of getting the job done. The roads he finished still carry traffic.
The neighborhoods Jacobs helped preserve are a reason lower Manhattan is a place worth caring about.–Grok

stalled thunderstorm

Its been a dry spring in Virginia. Limited April showers have resulted in challenging conditions for plants. I’ve been drip irrigating juveniles in CHO. In the Tidewater there is a group of a few hundred adolescent trees I look after.Rain began falling at 1430 hours

Between 1430 and 1830 six inches of rain came down.

It’s pretty flat in Slabtown. takes awhile to soak in sheet flow in the yard

all things wet and wonderful

 

Joe Rileys’s List

1. Give people the finest land, not the cheapest.
2. Bring the water to the community.
3. Every detail is important.
4. Create a vision, first.
5. Make pedestrian movement natural.
6. Knit the edges of each neighborhood together and connect fragmented pieces
7. Don’t forget about basic housekeeping and maintenance.
8. Maximize the natural assets.
9. Think regionally.
10. Build beauty into everything.

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Create a vision first, build beauty into everything.

moon eclipsed

Moon photographed from the Harlow house driveway 250314
I asked Grok to “generate an image of the entire sphere of the earth, western hemisphere, as seen from space in the penumbra of the earth’s shadow so that all one can see of the earth is its backlit glowing atmosphere. The atmosphere filters out the short wavelengths of the sun’s visible spectrum, the atmosphere of the earth should be a primarily reddish hue.” Grok tried.