August 27: Weed shadows
Aug. 28th, 2010 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverspentI'm teaching in a different building this semester. It's newer, and the landscaping around it isn't as open and shady and ancient-forest feeling as the other, but it's quite pretty. There's an ugly, pyramidal aggregate-concrete fountain, some nice thick grass, and they did leave a few of the tall older trees when they were doing the building. (Can't fault the fountain designer for its ugliness, really, I'm sure he or she was just trying to match the architecture of the rest of campus.)
One thing they haven't managed over here, just like at my last building, is what to do with the plant beds right in front of the building. As well-groomed as the rest of the square is, the plant beds are just left to grow wild, and they've come right up over the wall of the stairs leading to the second-floor patio.
As I walk over in the morning, I'm facing west and the rising sun is over my shoulder. So when I approach the patio, trying to avoid the blinding reflection of the sun in the building's glass and polished metal, I come up to the shadows of these tall weeds on the far wall of the stairs. It's like some kind of lace. If it were in my house, I would trace it and make a shadow-mural.
One thing they haven't managed over here, just like at my last building, is what to do with the plant beds right in front of the building. As well-groomed as the rest of the square is, the plant beds are just left to grow wild, and they've come right up over the wall of the stairs leading to the second-floor patio.
As I walk over in the morning, I'm facing west and the rising sun is over my shoulder. So when I approach the patio, trying to avoid the blinding reflection of the sun in the building's glass and polished metal, I come up to the shadows of these tall weeds on the far wall of the stairs. It's like some kind of lace. If it were in my house, I would trace it and make a shadow-mural.
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Date: 2010-08-28 03:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-31 12:42 am (UTC)