I'm a little teapot/Antithetical elephant.

For those wondering: the elephant was on Summer street in between School Street and Central Street in Somerville. This picture is on Central Street between Summer and Highland. Just walk around, it'll be good for you.

Yeah, it was totally an elephant.

Face plant.

Spring is Sprunging.

Yep, I post nothing. That's cause I am a procrastinator...just ask Turbo Tax, and my father,(whose hour long rant on how not doing your taxes ahead of time is unpatriotic). But at least that means it's April, and trees are flowering and there are buds a'buddin', and despite the chilly weather it's going to be warm and the sun is going to be setting later and later.
So I leave you with picture of Rosa the cat and some herbs I planted.

Changing our Cities.

There's an article in the NY Times today about how we should use our economic nosedive to reinvent our cities. Using the examples of FDR and the Works Projects Administration, and also Eisenhower's interstate highway program(Eisenhower's is somewhat ironic), creates an overview of what has, and what could be done to enrich our urban lives. You can find it here.

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Overgrown in Somerville

So the image that is the current header is the same plant as above. What it is, still don't know, and it's in a lot of my pictures. Any ideas?(Answer: Rhododendron) It's an effing hardy plant, and lasts all winter. It's nice to see green in the winter. What attracted me was not so much the the color, but how much there is of it. This plant looks pretty healthy, but I know that pruning keeps a plant healthy, and is the best way to go(for us and the plants), but sometimes I can't help but relish in something that's overgrown. During my critiques in art school people always made the comments about how nature will finally take over. And yeah, if we don't implode(or explode?) the world with a nuclear bomb, nature will take over. That's kind of obvious. And yes, it did annoy me, making that oh so hackneyed observation that nature will "regain" power. But at the same time I love when I see plants that have gone crazy and have almost extended their welcome into our walking spaces, and into our visual bank of what nature should look like in a city. So here are a few more pictures for you. And if you'll pardon, the layout's not very nice, but deal(I ain't in art school no more). Have a good weekend.