Breaking. Also, Wind.

[captainsblog]

So far through half this workday, I have seen one client, answered one phone call, received one substantive piece of mail. I think the rest of the world has already broken for the big four-day international holiday, so I am essentially doing likewise.

Despite living here for almost the past 17 years (and three previous to that), there is so much of this area that I just never get to see. My work tends to confine me to downtown and the northern suburbs, with an occasional slide into Cheektovegas or West Seneca, but never, in ages, down along the lakeshore as today's trip took me. You don't see much on the way "west" along Route 5 (which is really more south at that point), except the few spots the lake comes right up to the road frontage, but on the way back, you come to a bend and there's all of downtown, rising like Oz in the distance. And now, in front of that is the even cooler sight I'd never before seen, of what's known as Steel Winds-



- a farm of wind turbines on part of the sadly abandoned former grounds of the Bethlehem Steel factory.  On a day when we learned that we are not going to rebuild or replace our main bridge to Canada after nearly two decades of NIMBY-bickering and politician-dickering over it, seeing this private progress made me just a little prouder to be from these parts.

Also seen in those travels: a tour bus with a brand name of "Team America" (I did not hear the old biddies yelling "Fuck yeah!" out the window); and a yoga studio called "Get Bent."  I need to get down there more often.

Comments

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Do you celebrate Canada Day in Buffalo?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Every time the Maple Leafs come to HSBC Arena, we do;)

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Best yoga studio name EVAR.