These photographs are just a few I have taken over the last ten years at The Albany Bulb, also known as the Landfill, the Waterfront and just The Bulb. It is a place I feel passionate about. That much is obvious.
There are many of us who believe that this piece of the much hyped Eastshore State Park should have been left untouched and unmanaged - because it is a unique example of what happens when a place naturally and organically self regulates. But the dogma of 'preservation' and 'conservation areas' 'resource protection', 'habitats' and 'liability' overrules all individual identity. They cannot leave anything untouched, un-designed. It is as if if they (the park planners) didn't make it, it has no value.
Rules, guidelines, regulations, interpretive signage, fences, safety, sanctioned art - it leaves nothing to the imagination. That is what the landfill meant to us - a place of unlimited imagination.
It's a Charlie Brown Christmas!
Posted by: Angela White | December 23, 2008 at 10:12 AM
I love that photo!
Posted by: Deb in Minnesota | December 26, 2008 at 08:17 AM
Maybe next year I'll send it out as an anti Christmas card!
Posted by: Jill | December 26, 2008 at 09:28 AM