{"id":3407,"date":"2012-03-26T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:13:53","slug":"bmps-and-uptown-vibrancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/bmps-and-uptown-vibrancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rt 29 No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1225-0091-detention-pond.jpg\" alt=\"detention pond\"><br \/>\nI received a request from China for pictures of Charlottesville so I biked north via the John Warner Parkway to our &#8220;Main Street&#8221;,  the curiously named Seminole Trail. Why is it named that? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn?pagename=article&#038;contentId=A56265-2004Feb19&#038;notFound=true\">No one seems to know<\/a>.<br \/>\nMost likely it was a trick. Mad Men work, advertising to attract the gullible.<br \/>\nIt is a remarkable area, this Seminole Trail, a land of many lakes and places to shop. The lake above was built in association with the newly constructed Arden Place. The name sounds so wonderful, Arden, garden, ardent, verdant&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/liveardenplace.com\/\">Arden<\/a> has some advertising literature which really nails the essence of this area&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neither urban, nor rural.\u2028 Rather, uptown vibrancy.<br \/>\nArden Place is a luxury Charlottesville apartment community offering unparalleled levels of quality and service. Located off Route 29 No. in the center of the area&#8217;s best shopping, dining, and entertainment, you&#8217;ll find you have more time to spend on what is important to you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1225-0098-geese.jpg\" alt=\"bad mulching practice\" ><br \/>\nHeaded South on the Seminole Trail I encountered Wildlife. One wonders why these creatures would prefer a parking lot to the aquatic expanses of a detention pond?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1225_0102-rt-29-site-work.jpg\" alt=\"mother of all mudpuddles\"><br \/>\nThis is an informal detention pond on the west side of Route 29.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1226-0104-detention-pond.jpg\" alt=\"detention pond\"><br \/>\nThis is a formal detention pond in the course of construction. At a later date nature band-aids will be added to its gently sloping sides.<br \/>\nPossibly geese seek out parking lots because they are upstream of these ponds, closer to the source (rainfall) and therefor comparably pristine?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1225-0106-pedestrian-rt-29.jpg\" alt=\"pedestrian\"><br \/>\nIn the course of my three mile ride along Rt 29 (from Arden Place to Barracks Road) I saw one pedestrian.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1225-L1421-chickens-cross-st.jpg\" alt=\"nassau street\"><br \/>\nEnded my ride in the East Belmont\/Carlton section of Charlottesville.<\/p>\n<p>(Please, if you can direct me toward a silviculture resource for dry ponds and extended detention dry basins do so. It seems that these pits offer new ground for growing fabulous specimen trees in an urban setting.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a request from China for pictures of Charlottesville so I biked north via the John Warner Parkway to our &#8220;Main Street&#8221;, the curiously named Seminole Trail. Why is it named that? No one seems to know. Most likely it was a trick. Mad Men work, advertising to attract the gullible. It is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/bmps-and-uptown-vibrancy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rt 29 No&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[54,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}