Friday, May 25, 2007
Walking to Work
It was a beautiful day--hot with a cool wind--my daughter's car, a '94 Saab, was not doing well, so I dropped it off at the mechanics (who know me by first name), declined the ride to work and walked. It's about 2 miles. I saw that Cherry Creek was full but not above the banks. The story is that when the white men decided to build a town, Auraria, at the confluence of the Platte and Cherry Creek, the local Indians tried to warn them that the place floods badly every so often. They ignored them and proto-Denver was washed away a few years later in a big flood.
A school that has been abandoned for at least a quarter century has been stripped down to the brickwork and it is a jewel. Turn of the Century craftsmanship and decoration makes the Bauhaus butt ugly new buildings, stripped of all decoration, which is apparently deposited in a single incredibly ugly minimalist sculpture on the lawn in front, look like the architectural nothings they are.
The new art museum wing, the Libeskind wonder, is still under repair despite its multimillion dollar price tag and only 8 months of operation. I think we might not have gotten full value there.
One of the security guards in the Court of Appeal/Supreme Court building, who knows me by my money clip, was taking information from the license of a very shabby man standing next to the Chief Justice, who had walked to her car at the curb with the aid of a walker (that can't be good). Wonder what that was about?
Despite the hysterics about weapons of war at a new war memorial south of here a few months ago, I walked by a Korean War memorial with a BAR in bronze, a bronze statue of a federal soldier holding a Sharps Model 1859 Carbine and two bronze Napoleon 12 pounders. All weapons of war in my book.
There are two marks on the steps at the front of the capitol building both of which say 5280. So either the capitol building is sinking, or rising; the sea level is sinking, or rising; or there has been improvement in the methods of measurement.
A school that has been abandoned for at least a quarter century has been stripped down to the brickwork and it is a jewel. Turn of the Century craftsmanship and decoration makes the Bauhaus butt ugly new buildings, stripped of all decoration, which is apparently deposited in a single incredibly ugly minimalist sculpture on the lawn in front, look like the architectural nothings they are.
The new art museum wing, the Libeskind wonder, is still under repair despite its multimillion dollar price tag and only 8 months of operation. I think we might not have gotten full value there.
One of the security guards in the Court of Appeal/Supreme Court building, who knows me by my money clip, was taking information from the license of a very shabby man standing next to the Chief Justice, who had walked to her car at the curb with the aid of a walker (that can't be good). Wonder what that was about?
Despite the hysterics about weapons of war at a new war memorial south of here a few months ago, I walked by a Korean War memorial with a BAR in bronze, a bronze statue of a federal soldier holding a Sharps Model 1859 Carbine and two bronze Napoleon 12 pounders. All weapons of war in my book.
There are two marks on the steps at the front of the capitol building both of which say 5280. So either the capitol building is sinking, or rising; the sea level is sinking, or rising; or there has been improvement in the methods of measurement.
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# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:11 PM 
