tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post1229486538549848245..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Riddle wrapped in an enigmaFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-67082143334344139472012-05-24T13:10:04.502-07:002012-05-24T13:10:04.502-07:00It's one of my favorite blogs, and it appears ...It's one of my favorite blogs, and it appears that it's back: http://tinzeroes.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-85449312684971641572010-10-31T08:55:04.191-07:002010-10-31T08:55:04.191-07:00What an interesting statement about the soils engi...What an interesting statement about the soils engineering business. So you guys needs bid au revoir to many little critters in the course of your works. Interesting how this comports with your compassion and love for what went before. I'm glad you are such an impassioned documentarian ... I always enjoy when you construct a past era, and the inhabitants therein.<br /><br />The story of the Philly Schuylkil River houses is shocking. A lesson for us all: Be careful you are building on sound ground!<br /><br />(Thank you for making me smile :) You know I'm your ardent admirer.)Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-2225776758742157742010-10-30T19:51:33.746-07:002010-10-30T19:51:33.746-07:00Oh, trust me, I know about fill - in the soils eng...Oh, trust me, I know about fill - in the soils engineering business we kill more wetland species before 9 in the morning that most people do all...in a lifetime, actually.<br /><br />But the thing about this area is that the fill is so OLD (old for Portland, anyway, where our history starts in the mid-1850s). The area changed so quickly, from little sloughs and marshes to a sort of marsh-wiggle type of community, with trestles and small houses intermingled with the withered wet lowlands in less than a generation, and before another generation had passed it was all rectangular streets and little brick houses for you and me.<br /><br />To put this in perspective, though, when I lived in Philadelphia there was a good-sized row of houses up in the NE part of the city near the Schuylkil River that were settling badly; the local soil guys investigated and discovered that the row was sitting on an old canyon of a tributary stream that had been filled beginning in the 1700s - we're talking old wooden wagon beds, broken pewter plates, dead horses (their bones, anyway)...you name it. Horrible stuff, and hundreds of feet deep.<br /><br />Not sweet, merely honestly raptured. "All that's best, of dark and light, meets in her aspect and her eyes..."FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-25817479452265272532010-10-30T12:12:55.500-07:002010-10-30T12:12:55.500-07:00FDC,
You are not vain, but generous, IMHO.
Much ...FDC,<br /><br />You are not vain, but generous, IMHO.<br /><br />Much of the new development in Tally is on infill. I guess we do this when a site is desirable, filling it up 'til we've lost the thing that originally made it pretty.<br /><br />You're very sweet (the pix was on Thomas Wolfe's front porch in Ashville this Aug. -- ironically, I was staying in a hotel across the parking lot from it, and seeing as he was no longer using it ...)Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-69781476946161223292010-10-29T00:24:06.143-07:002010-10-29T00:24:06.143-07:00Yes, this post was pure self-gratification. I'...Yes, this post was pure self-gratification. I've always loved this odd little blog and wanted to share it, for no reason other than my own vanity. Glad you liked it, anyway.<br /><br />What it did make me want to do is find out more about all those vanished East Portland waterways. I had no idea - the area today is dense urban infill - where the heck did all the water GO?<br /><br />And BTW the new icon picture is a knockout. Totally gorgeous, and you can say I said so.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-48913336291243439912010-10-28T22:53:48.976-07:002010-10-28T22:53:48.976-07:00Thank you for sharing this romantic bit of blog hi...Thank you for sharing this romantic bit of blog history. I wonder about this medium, so evanescent, yet sometimes conveying so much. <br /><br />We are like people stepping on and off a subway platform. For some the trains on time; for most of us non-professionals, not. The gift of the trolleys was left for you to uncover in your cybersleuthing, and you resurrected it, for a moment, for us.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.com