sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2026-02-08 11:00 pm

If I'm hoping, then I'm hoping for the frost

I am feeling non-stop terrible. I took a couple of pictures in the snow-fallen sunshine this afternoon.



Paperbark maple, peeling in snow.



The sky still too cold a blue for spring.



The dogwood's illusion of shadow.

[personal profile] spatch sent me a 1957 study of walking directions to Scollay Square. Researcher's notes can be unnecessarily period-typical, but the respondents themselves are wonderful. "You're a regular question-box, aren't you?" It turns out to be part of the basis for a seminal work of urban planning and perception. I like the first draft of the public image of Boston, including its conclusion that it is a deficit to the city not to be thought of as defined by the harbor as much as the river.
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2026-02-10 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
(It seemed rude to class a guy as "probably mentally deficient" just because he was from Maine.) STRONG LOL