September 13, 2019

City & County 07: Afternoon light in the city

A quick post today: two photographs that complement each other and bookend the past decade. The first image is from North Oakland in spring 2009, biking from the MacArthur BART Station on 41st or 42nd Street east, towards Broadway. The second image is from summer 2019 the JFK-UMass T Stop in Dorchester, Boston, on my way home from work. In both photos, separated by a continent, the quality of light, the angle it strikes the landscape/streetscape/transit infrastructure-scape is similar, complementary. I also appreciate the wild vitality of urban nature: in the Oakland photo the flowering tree (apple maybe?) is encasing the street parking sign, and how in the Boston photo the weeds have seeded and thrived on the roof.