I started blooging over on a mac site back in 2004 that proved unwieldy. Moira got me onto Blooger, which for all it's many drawbacks, worked most of the time pretty well. But those early posts, intended as once a month essays to learn mysef to write gooder, turned into weekly struggles to master my own language in clearly written form. Working through my own strong preferences and difficult journeys. It's been a long ride through a dark tunnel.
The photos from those early years, the beginning of our time in Boston, went to a Mac photo page for our friends. A way to stay connected, to entertain, to share such an interesting place. The page is gone, but the photos are still here, still wanting to be gazed upon, still wanting to tell their stories.
This is the turn into Park Street from the Green Line of the MBTA in Boston. I can still hear the shrieks and screetches of the wheels against the rails, the rinky-dink quality of the lurching car, announcing that I was nearly home.
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Enjoyed this photo very much.
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I think you have learned yourself to write very gooder.
That's a most atmospheric photograph, too!
I have a strange affection for the T. I think it comes with familiarity; unlike in other cities' subway systems, I know how the T works. I can get anywhere I want pretty easily, and I'm almost never confused about which way is which when I come up from underground. Plus, it has a smell that I'm familiar with (granted, it's not always PLEASANT, but it's familiar).
Did you ever hear this little tune?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMSGrY-IlU
Familiar is good with subways which we call tubes which Pittburghers call the tunnels to the south side of the city. Paris has a good overall direction-finding system while Lisbon was inhumanly clean. Tokyo was the killer; you think you have everything under control as you listen to the occidentally-recognisable announcements calling off the stops. Then you get off at Shinjuku and there are a dozen exits arranged in a circle and you know you can't ask anyone for help. I never used the Boston system, preferring to walk. But then I never worked there, even though I wanted to. And play. Ah Fenway Park, golden era baseball.
I do not find blogger unwieldy, however, I am not particularly demanding of it. I can post words, images, an occasionally embedded youtube video, I can change the colour of my text, that's about it.
My first blog post was on February 8, 2005. I do not recall the impetus for me to start one.
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What an atmospheric image Z.
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