Lower League Football Landscapes; these are the landscapes I live when Saturday comes. Landscapes I’ve known most weekends since the age of 10, starting with ‘The Rec’ (above).
Rain, Shine, Snow. Mud, Wind, Grass. Blood, Sweat, Tears. Win, Lose, Draw. Regardless of the surrounding landscape, for 90 minutes all that actually matters is that ball.
Yesterday’s post got me thinking I should post a few more pics every-now-and-then (especially until I get the photos page of the website sorted). I took these in July whilst out running in South Gloucestershire. They got critical claim from someone in the media when I sent them out by email:
“…almost as if you’d found Constable’s digital camera lying there in the ditch and sent us a few of the sunny ones”.
Went to the Devon seaside to go surfing today. Proper surfing on waves propagated through water, not the ususal electronic kind. Not much surf though. Lots of wind. Cool clouds too.
Scientific American: Landscape Influences Human Social Interaction
Thay know all about this in Spain. One of the presentations at the THEMES Summer School I was at in June was all about the current problems in the Barcelona suburbs as people decide they want nice green lawns like they see on Desperate Housewives.
Domene E., Sauri D., Parés M. 2005, ‘Urbanization and Sustainable
Resource Use: The Case of Garden Watering in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona’,
Urban Geography, Vol.26, Number 6, pp.520-535.
So maybe it’s “natural” for us to want to live in “unnatural” surroundings…
Direction not Destination 