From Brooklyn Bridge Park, a "sound attenuating hill" (below) meant to block the unpleasant reality of the BQE as it passes below the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. I suppose it's sour grapes, but that short stretch of the westbound BQE, just after you passed beneath the Brooklyn Bridge and before you entered "the Trench," used to offer a glorious view of the East River and the Harbor. (The photo above is from the eastbound BQE, from where you can still see above the Wall.)
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Well, I suppose if you've got an artificially constructed hill (then again, is there such a thing as a "naturally constructed" anything?) -- what is it, anyway, a mound of landfill, right? -- you may as well find a use for it.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, a good set of wax earplugs would serve much the same purpose (sound-attenuation).
(Maybe there's even an "organic" kind -- with the "all natural" wax -- does that sound right? Or would a matching set of sour grapes perhaps do just as well?)
At the end of this extended meditation I am left wondering about that broad horizontal area of shade encroaching upon the foreground in the lower shot.
The formidable shadow of The Uplands??