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swans geese and liquefied natural
gas
The gas tanks shown in the swan pictures are located at
what I believe to be Sassafrass Point. I took these standing
on Veteran's Memorial Parkway looking across Watchemocket
Cove to Providence Harbor. The bike path doesn't really show
up too well in the pictures. You can kind of make it out as
a dark line in front of the gas tanks Swans with gas tanks is kind of a typical Providence scene. You get used to it. Kind of like the Japanese marveling at a single exquisite cherry tree in the midst of urban squalor. the weather As is probably obvious in the photos, it was really
cloudy today. It threatened to rain all day but never really
did more than a few drops of mist. I think I won't even try
to include these photos in the photo essay on the cove I'm
putting together for Wild Bird's photo essay contest.
This being New England, most of my best photos of the cove
are kind of gray - but it's an interesting gray. the census
on the bus shelterAfter the cove, we headed to downtown Providence because Nancy wanted to show me what some RISD students had done as a final project. They covered the bus shelter next door to RISD with tiles, some of which depicted significant events in Rhode Island history. Or should I say the signficant event in Rhode Island history? Several of the columns had news clippings about the 1938 Hurricane - ceramic waves at the top to emphasize the point. One column had clippings about a fire - with ceramic flames at the top. The rest of the columns were encrusted with ceramic barnacles creating the feeling of pilings along a wharf - an old wharf, maybe been there since before the '38 Hurricane... The overall effect was stunning. It was so un-modernistic and yet so contemporary and so totally Rhode Island. On the way to and from the barnacles, we walked along the Woonasquatucket to Waterplace Park and checked out the gondola. Yes, Providence now has a gondola. Today was not gondola weather though... We kept checking on the Red Sox game all afternoon. It went 15 innings. They lost. |
Lots
of interesting things came in the mail yesterday, including
the pipeline map I requested from Algonquin Gas. I brought
the map with me to the 
cove
to see if I could figure out how the Bold Point to Fort Hill
proposed pipeline has anything at all to do with Sassafrass
Point. I'm still confused, but it was fun trying to orient
the map to the terrain.
in
the picture of the swans fighting.
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