Camp Meeker
June 26, 2007
to visit. a small town proxy? catskills in on the bohemian highway? how close to that great bakery/garden near occidental?
post-weekend
June 26, 2007
A wonderful weekend in the mountains, but I realize that if we should ever procure a spot in the country, the drive is as important as the destination. My ideal weekend travel experience is, of course, a lot like the NY-Williamstown drive, a little bit of free(high)way to break out of town, a bit of meandering on country roads, an opportunity to happen upon thrift stores and/or a swimming hole, outlet store, pie shop, fruit stand all the while keeping in the 100-200 mile range (3-ish hours).
Other thoughts: trying to reconcile old (those historic wood floors are so nice) vs. new (clean and shiny) habitats and how that fits with green. Something about returning to our poorly insulated, ant-haven Edwardian complete with stopped up utility sink! makes me want to live somewhere new and clean. I respect ants. Yes, yes, ecosystems and all, but maybe some new prefab could be plunked down in a beautiful spot and appropriately protected from the elements. How synthetic is the whole prefab thing anyway?
Sort of related: greenpads.com. This new development in W. Berkeley looks interesting. This is the kind of newness I can get behind, but hard to get a sense of it all from the limited pictures.
Tomales house
June 21, 2007
upstate new york
May 29, 2007
why is it so cheap there? weather?
ithaca seems nice.
what is the residue of the burned-over district?
wool mills
May 23, 2007
Salton Sea
October 18, 2006
Beach of 1913 [at the] Salton Sea shore, California
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
Repository
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Source Collection
University of Chicago Department of Botany Records
The first post.
October 13, 2006
I begin with an icon.
From the Library of Congress, American Memory Collection.
