Showing posts with label allegheny river. Show all posts
Showing posts with label allegheny river. Show all posts

Monday, March 17, 2008

Washington Landing, Herr's Island, Allegheny River


I laid on the wall in the sun for a while. It was below 50, but it felt warmer in the sun.

I climbed down the hill beside the wall and looked through the bits of glass and shards of pottery and sticks and stones.

I imagined I was an anthropologist or archaelogist in the future, what these pieces of life would mean to me. There were even a couple of old spoons with designs on the handle
i almost found the whole bowl to reconstruct! (not quite...)

this is what i kept:

a smooth purple glass orb
a piece from the bowl with greco-roman looking fresco type enamel.
also, a piece of what, if i remember my college geology class at all, is granite (maybe feldspar in it?? i only remember feldspar cause it's a funny word), a river shell, and a perfectly round stone.

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Pittsburgh VS. Trinidad and Tobago

Okay, so maybe it's not a fair comparison since Trinidad & Tobago is in the Caribbean, but what do they have that we don't (besides the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, a Rainforest, and year-round warm weather)?
TobagoOkay, so maybe the Caribbean Sea is slightly more blue than the Allegheny River ...
Herr's Island, Pittsburghbut it's' just as green on Herr's Island as it is in the rain forest in Tobago!!