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August 13, 2016
I've been away for a while, but now I'm back! I have lots of photos from The US South West, and can't wait to start processing and posting.
This photo is from back on August 13, when we left for Denver. It is early morning in Boston. I left the reflections because I felt it helped tell the story.
Boston, Massachusetts
USA
US Southwest Trip - August 13-27, 2016
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July 24, 2023
After 1.5 months Meika left. Her people still aren't home, but she's staying with their friend for a week. Also got news that Mr. Blues people are cutting short their trip plus Smitty's trip has been canceled. Rocko, Tommy, and I are finally getting some family time.
Got a garden of songs
Where I grow all my thoughts
Wish I could harvest one or two
For some small talk
Seems like I'm starving for words
Whenever you're around
Nothing on my tongue
So much in the ground
Half the time I got my gaze
Trained on your motel door
Fourth door from the end
Rest of the time my gaze lays
Like a stain on the carpeted floor
If it weren't for my brain
I'd just go over and make friends
Too bad about my brain
Cuz I'd like to make friends.
See it here.
Hogan Lovells International LLP ...
I took this photograph at Hogan Lovells when they hosted a gathering of people committed to saving the planet which was organised by the excellent future thinkers Eco-Connect, www.eco-connect.org/ run by Robert and Catherine Hokin as part of their Green in the City series of conferences, seminars and workshops.
Robert authored the UK Green Investment Guide 2012
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Your basic, classic covered bridge, built by one Henry Hebble in 1886 and relocated to the Glen Helen Nature Preserve in 1975.
Blonde woman with back facing camera looks out to the Sawtooth Mountains while sitting on logs at Redfish Lake
Its as much as I can do to go and stand by the window. So that's what I do. And then I go and sit by the computer and try and make myself look like 10 years younger. I'm 107.
This beautiful river flows from Pend Oreille Lake, popular resort area surrounded by timber. With lumbering as its chief Industry, the northern part of Idaho is also known for excellent fishing
Copyright 1941
Union Oil Company Scenes of the West
110
CAPA-019843
A single passenger pauses on the ferry deck, framed by railings and sky, looking out over Rotterdam harbour. Above her, clouds shift and gather, heavy with promise; below, the machinery of the port waits with patient intent. It feels like a moment caught between movement and thought, where travel becomes reflection and the scale of the place gently recalibrates the self. A quiet dialogue between industry, weather, and one person taking it all in.
The nice view from my cousin's living-room window looking towards the South Pier at Stromness Harbour.
Queens Public Library, Kew Gardens Hills branch (WORKac, 2008-2017). A lively renovation (and substantial expansion) of a 1966 "Lindsay box" library, which had consisted of dark Miesian walls strung between blocky white brick corner pieces. (Images online are scarce; the time-travel feature on Google Street View is helpful here.) Essentially, the expansion involved adding a thick, boomerang-shaped band to the two street facades. The original building was, typical for the period, set back ten feet or so from the building line to make room for a humble lawn-and-shrub landscape. Now, this "green" band becomes a green roof on the addition, while beneath it, the thickened edge contains most of the reading-room and public-program space.
The original building was passable neighborhood-scale Modernism, but was also small, and probably low and dark, while being indistinguishable from a bank branch or dentist's office of the same period. While the new one also doesn't exactly scream "library," it certainly says "special building," and the eye-grabbing zig-zag of the facade reates an inviting "come on in" effect, while also staging areas of darkness and light much more deliberately. A particularly nice touch is that the children's area gets the windows only coming up to three feet or so, bringing down the scale for the little ones and differentiating this cozy cave from the bright, cafe-like adult reading space.
The facade itself is made of prefabricated concrete panels, reinforced with fiberglass and formed in a rippled, fabric-like pattern that grants an interesting relief (even on gray days like this one). To my eyes, it also works to effectively disguise the joints between the panels, creating the illusion of a single continuous 'sheet' of rippled fabric. Overall, this is a very nice addition to the neighborhood, and to WORKac's growing portfolio of NYC municipal work.
(Viewed during Open House New York's 2017 Open House weekend.)