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The Wild Cherry trees in the yard are suffering from some sort of leaf blight? Gaston County, NC, USA. Canon T6i. 5/12/2018
8 years ago we made the mistake of moving to the southside burbs of Atlanta for work. I was freelance and my wife was a teacher. We moved into Clayton County. We had no idea how bad it was (or how bad it was going to get) there. We got snookered into buying a house and ended up losing 5k trying to sell it as well as it took two years to get it off our hands.
We were fed up with suburbia, it’s patios, McDonalds and Walmarts and wanted to see something fresh and new. So we moved to Puebla, Mexico and lived in the city for a year. It was great! We lived in the heart of the city, took public transportation everywhere and lost around 10lbs each (because of all the walking we did).
Unfortunately my freelance gravy train dried up and blew away so my wife had to help supplement in the income by taking another teaching job. She, unfortunately, got one on the southside of Atlanta again and I picked up work at a graphic design firm.
For the past year we’ve been living in a bedroom community. Within five miles of us we have a Target, a Wal Mart, a McDonalds, a Wendys, 2 Quicktrips, 3 Waffle Houses, a Chilis, a Longhorn Steakhouse, an Outback Steakhouse, 3 chain Chinese take outs, a Pizza Hut, Books a Million, 3 Mexican restaurants, Best Buy, 15 billion evangelical churches, 200 strip malls, 1 Starbucks, 10-15 nail places, a Gold’s Gym, a LA Fitness a Krogers and a Publix. Oh yeah, and we have one bar that I’ve been warned never to go into under any circumstances.
We thought the neighborhood we moved into would at least be better than what we had in Clayton County and I guess compared to that, it’s not so bad. But that said, we still hear gunshots ring out in the night, I’ve had to call the cops a few times for shifty thugs hanging out in our area, my car has been broken into and we hear the police zipping up and down the road blaring their sirens weekly.
To amplify the thug culture, we had greedy builders come in, clear cut forests and farmland and put up cheap housing (or better known as “McMansions”). Most houses around here are for sale, falling apart or occupied by a “seedier culture” than you’d want to be associated with.
My half of our carbon copied townhouse unit isn’t so bad. I get along with my neighbor and the housing president but barely know anyone else. The other side isn’t so nice.
This image is of a neighborhood greedy builders clear cut to add more cheap housing to. It’s been this way for a year now. They can’t afford to put anymore houses due to the subprime meltdown. So we just have this blight sitting here. Past this blight, is another type of blight which is the cheap housing I mentioned.
This area had trees high enough to shade my townhouse unit, now I just have the sun beating down on us during the entire day. There is no shade, there are displaced deer and this has become a nightly hangout for thugs up to no good.
For some people, suburbia may be okay with them and I might be stepping on toes mentioning all this. For me, it’s an utter hell. There are no places to hang out, no places to get a good import or high-gravity beer, nothing for 20-30 somethings who have no children and everything is a state of convenience. I feel literally like their is no heartbeat or life in this bedroom community.
My wife recently quit her job after just not being able to handle the school systems anymore. She is looking for work in downtown Atlanta. Since I am freelance, I can work anywhere. We are looking to move in town as soon as possible.
Yes, we’re not naive, we know that downtown carries problems too. But at least I can go to a bar, an Indian restaurant, meet up at an independent coffeeshop or go hear a live band. Try finding that in the south Atlanta burbs.
It’s my hope that we’ll be in downtown Atlanta by December. I would guess anything else would be foolish to assume.
Once again, I know that suburbia suits people just fine, it just isn’t for me and I was meant for an urban dwelling life.
This building is named in Honor of Frances E Willard. A quick reading on this person turns up some controversial and frankly overtly racist statements on alcohol and the African race. I am curious when this plaque was placed and this building was dedicated. As far as I have been able to locate so far it was at least prior to 1950.
"Alien illiterates ... rule our cities today; the saloon is their palace, and the toddy stick their sceptre. It is not fair that they should vote, nor is it fair that a plantation Negro, who can neither read nor write, whose ideas are bounded by the fence of his own field and the price of his own mule, should be entrusted with the ballot ... The colored race multiplies like the locusts of Egypt. The grog-shop is their center of power. The safety of women, of childhood, of the home is menaced in a thousand localities at this moment"
The irony of this selection is not lost on me given the number of empty alcohol bottles littering this abandoned building, named for a prohibitionist. I wonder what she would have to say about this place bearing her name. ( I have a pretty good guess! ) One of her main goals for women's suffrage appears to be the empowerment of women to protect them from all the hordes of drunken horny men out there.
Sounds like a real man-hater to me, especially of black men.
This is one of the things I love about urban exploration. It's that unexpected connection to a world that is long gone. A bit of living history and a chance to learn about the past. You never know what you will find
Project: Aperture house
Location:Highgate Hill QLD
Structural Engineer:Westera partners
Owners:Jayson and Melissa Blight
Bricklayer:Elvis & Rose
Builder:Frame Projects
Architect:Blight Rayner Architects in collaboration with Twofold Studio
Photographer:Christopher Frederick Jones (Elvis & Rose photo by Alex Chomicz)
This Dublin, with the great famine statues another large catastrophe which hit rural Ireland caused by the potato blight.
Tenuous Link: decay
This is from somewhere across the Mississippi River from St Louis. Not sure if it is East St Louis proper (as if there were anything proper about East St Louis) but it is certainly East St Louis'esque. News reports constantly remind us of the following,,, E.S.L. is home to one of the most corrupt political entities in the region, where every institution suffers. The police force is uinderpaid, under-equiped, and undermanned, as are the fire departments and emergancy medical providers. Neglect and decay run rampent as crooked politicos line their pockets,,, high crime and weeds have become the hallmark symbols of this no-man's land,,,
Some years ago, while helping a coworker friend run an errand for his church, he needed to stop by his house for a moment, both of which were in East St Louis. I was surprised, or perhaps not, to see the iron bars on his windows and the iron gate where a stormdoor might have been. I WAS surprised to find the church equally well fortified.
Given the "apostolic penticost" nature of his religion, I was struck by a remark he once made on the subject of child rearing. We were discussing how our courts and family service agencies were undermining parental responsibilities with respect to administering discipline and he said that where he lived, there was a saying, "If you don't beat them,,, someone else will kill them".
I never broached that subject again, and even today it still leaves me feeling a bit ill. What kind of an environment must it be to produce such a fearful perspective...
As near as I could tell, there was no sign of human habitation in these decaying hulks. See the trees growing where they do not belong? What a sad state of affairs.
It was blighted, but it's on its way to a complete overhaul. I hope to shoot a future photo when it has been restored.
Camera: Leica M3
Lens: 50mm Summicron
Film: Ilford Delta ISO 100
Bacterial leaf blight. When blight bacteria cells
invade rice plants through the roots and basal
stem, plants may show kresek (Photo 62). Leaves
or entire plants wilt during seedling to early tiller-
ing stages. Sometimes affected leaves of suscep-
tible cultivars turn pale yellow. Older leaves
appear normal and green, younger leaves are
either a uniform pale yellow or have yellow or
green-yellow stripes.
Sources of bacteria are diseased straw, stubble,
ratoons of infected plants, seed, and weed hosts.
Blight is spread by dew, irrigation water, rain,
flooding, and strong winds. Bacterial cells form
small beads in the morning, which harden and
adhere to the leaf surfaces of a host plant (Photo
63). Moisture on the leaf surface dissolves the
beads and bacterial cells spread freely.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Sandy Blight Junction Road up to Kintore and the Gary Junction Rd.
and some of the Gibson Desert and the Great Central Highway, WA
Clip from AusMap. From the iPad app by
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These maps are so much better than the Flickr maps for locating places in the Outback...
A great recent story from the Covid-19 world..
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/2020/04/25/aborig...
Sent from Bill's iPad.