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On the Grid

Looking up along the side of a building that's entirely covered with glass panes.

On Friday afternoons I like to take a walk around the area when on break from work. This week I went looking for grids. I noticed very quickly that grids are everywhere in a modern city.

Window grids on glass-faced buildings. Paving and floor tiles. Wall tiles in the bathroom. Ceiling tiles in the office or retail stores. Storm drain grates. The patterns of bumps on the non-slip section of a wheelchair ramp.  If you zoom out, there’s the pattern of streets, all the electrical and data cables making their way around town…

…and of course the metaphorical grid that all of us are plugged into, that some of us long to get off of.

Storm water pond: Now with added storm water!

Storm water pond: Now with added storm water!

Storm water pond: Now with added storm water!

It rained pretty hard last night near home, and clearly it rained hard enough here that mud was flowing over the sidewalks, and the detention pond still had water at noon. On a related note, yes, they’re still watering the lawn too much here. At least there’s a lot less of it than there used to be before the renovation, between the hollow and all the planters full of native and otherwise less-thirsty plants and wood chips behind where I was standing. #pond #losangeles #rainwater

Cambridge and the Charles River, #seenthru the railing of the Longfellow Bridge from Boston

Cambridge and the Charles River, #seenthru the railing of the Longfellow Bridge from Boston. The bridge is currently under renovation. I assume repainting is on the schedule.

Photo taken at: Longfellow Bridge

Cambridge and the Charles River, #seenthru the railing of the Longfellow Bridge from Boston. The bridge is currently under renovation. I assume repainting is on the schedule.

@pixlr #bridge #river #skyline #Boston #paint #railing