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City & County 13: Coronavirus Cities Dispatch #5 Three seasons down
November 15, 2020
Mid-morning on Harvard Yard in early May, 2020, without a student or tourist in sight. As the last of the leaves are blown off the deciduous trees, fall in...
City & County 12: Coronavirus Cities Dispatch #4 At home, mixing metaphors
May 25, 2020
A Room for London on top of the Southbank Centre. Photo by Alan Wiig, June 2013. For the last ten-plus weeks, like everyone, I’ve been self-quarantined in my...
City & County 11: Coronavirus Cities Dispatch #3 Walking on empty streets
April 25, 2020
Looking southwest towards Kendall Square from the base of Prospect Hill in Somerville. April 1. Six or so weeks into coronavirus life, and the motivation to...
City & County 10: Coronavirus Cities Dispatch #2 Thoughts on long walks
March 29, 2020
Coronavirus cities: The day to day of life during a pandemic Dispatch #2: 29 March, 2020. Advice on walking in Coronavirus cities. The fringe of Union...
City & County 09: Coronavirus Cities Dispatch #1
March 26, 2020
Coronavirus cities: The day to day of life during a pandemic Dispatch One: 11 March - 24 March, 2020. Somerville and surrounding cities, 1852. Source...
City & County 08: A day in London
October 4, 2019
The Barbican from street level. All photos taken Tuesday 17 September 2019 by the author. Although precise navigation can be quite difficult for an...
City & County 07: Afternoon light in the city
September 13, 2019
A quick post today: two photographs that complement each other and bookend the past decade. The first image is from North Oakland in spring 2009, biking from...
City & County 06: Pathholes and other hazards of walking
June 20, 2019
Looking down the top section of the Loma Linda path, at Queens Road. This 2012 photo-essay is reposted from my largely inactive blog, Everyday Structures....
City & County 05: Blazes
June 13, 2019
Otherwise known as reassurance markers Mt. Monadnock, south-west New Hampshire. Where I grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills, trails stood out, inscribed...
City & County 04: Canal Saint-Martin
April 29, 2019
The Canal Saint-Martin from one of many arched pedestrian bridges angling over the water. By virtue of their design, canals cut through the landscape,...
City & County 03: Exploring the edgelands
April 24, 2019
Words and images by Troy Carle. The Red Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) covers 7,100 acres, wedged between Central Valley ranchland and...
City & County 02: Hiking on granite at the summer solstice
April 15, 2019
Dawn, looking west toward California's Central Valley. Photo by Alan Wiig, June 2018. In the Sierra Nevada foothills, tourists are always passing through, on...
City & County 01: Memories of the High Sierra
February 4, 2019
Memories of the High Sierra February 4, 2019 Above Sonora Pass in the High Sierra, sometime in the early 2000's. An occasional newsletter about exploring the...