From a conversation this morning about recent landscape work: A few of the images are of ecological restoration sites that I've done design or permitting for; young alders along the restored Salt River, for example. One of the first steps in a restoration is understanding what was once there. In this case we were able to put part of it back, but not all of it.
Other images are of still degraded landscapes. In those cases, I guess I'm seeing what's there now, and what was once there, and what might be there again someday. It's a very intuitive thing, thinking in multiple and dynamic temporal scales... and not easy to explain.
After that I spent a few hours relaxing at the hot springs. Nice to unwind a little, and going two hours south meant it was 10 degrees warmer. No major revelations, but there was a chance to think about already defined things.
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