public space – Black and White

Rivanna

Rivanna River — Charlottesville people have rediscovered the benefits of being proximate to a river. At the same time developers have discovered “empty” acres next to the river for a huge parking lot and biosphere destruction. Read about the riverside, help save it. Circus Grounds Preservation Corporation.

Rivers

Tilly has a defined route in the morning. One stop is visiting with neighbor dog Rivers.

3 dogs — Running by the river, on occasion we stop and make the acquaintance of new canines

A swim followed by rolling in the dirt provides a capstone experience.

a thousand people in the street

Market St west view — “Now in its 21st year, the Charlottesville Marathon & Half Marathon is one of the oldest and most coveted races in Charlottesville. It has been defined as America’s Destination Marathon because of its scenic beauty and historical background”–Charlottesville Marathon

Market St east view — Traffic calming. People in the street. It is a magical moment when the people displace automobile and truck traffic. Incredibly, the mass of humanity is quieter than one idiot with a bad muffler or a loud stereo.

Wes

Wes Bellamy, February 14, 2013

Rivanna

Rivanna River heron — The Rivanna River is a premier resource for Central Virginia.

People in Charlottesville are making use of the Rivanna. The Charlottesville political leadership continues to ignore the river. I hope the City Council will engage, in a helpful manner, soon.

Some “studying” has been done but significant steps have not been taken.

promoman

Maximilian making memory — but the money that is spared on my memory suppresses my memory in posterity, and that which I fail to achieve in my life for my memory will not be made good by you or any other after my death
—Maximilian I

Rivanna low water

egret — Matilda’s swimming hole, Charlottesville, Rivanna River, Riverview Park

Washington Square Park 1974

my people, old guys

bicentennial

Mall Washington DC — National Mall, 1976. A boy and his aeroplane.

uneasy marriage

CA stack CO tracks — It struck me this morning that the park I walk through owes much of its existence to successive technologies. The streetcar technology (smokestack above) has been abandoned. The other technologies that undergird this public space are sewage collection and high voltage electrical transmission.

dog running in snow woods — Rivanna trail, winter weather.

Geology and topography have graced the park with a river. So far, in our political wisdom, we have discouraged building in the river’s channel.

The industrial and the natural features maintain an uneasy balance, remarkably it feels like a park.