“A quick trip on the tram to Exchange Quay, and a stroll back to the Pomona stop”.
So began Andy Robertson’s new adventure, one which by his own admission kept him “going all the way to Cornbrook, with a little help from some minor trespassing, [which] if questioned I would say ‘Andrew Simpson sent me’”.
Now there indeed is fame, although whether my name would get him out of trouble is debateable.
I toyed with starting at the beginning of the adventure with one of Andy’s road pictures, but instead chose this one, which has got the lot, from a spot of wild nature, to the hint of what was once and with the cranes and tall buildings in the distance is a hint of what is to come.
There will be someone better than me who will identify the spot and call up an old map or photograph, and someone else with details of what might be about to rise from the ground, and finally someone who can identify the “green stuff” as more than “green stuff”.
So I shall await those communications.
For now I just like the picture, and given just how much of the area has been developed and is being developed as I write, Andy’s picture is one to treasure.
But then so is his road picture, which captures the iconic bridge and something of the Dallas style properties.
I have to say the traffic seems quite sparse but again there will be somebody with a theory.
For now I shall close with yet another of those green things, which pretty much proves the old observation that nature abhors a vacuum and given half a chance something will start growing where once carts and wagons rolled purposely over pathways.
And I bet someone will know what the plant is. And quick as a flash Bill Sumner came back with, "recognised your plant immediately as Evening Primrose (gives out its scent after dark), a quick check on Google gives us -Genus Oenothera and species biennis this being the wild variety it flowers in its second year", followed by Ted who suggested that the site was a former chemical plant. Now that can't be bad.
Location; at Pomona
Pictures; down by Pomona, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson
Now there indeed is fame, although whether my name would get him out of trouble is debateable.
I toyed with starting at the beginning of the adventure with one of Andy’s road pictures, but instead chose this one, which has got the lot, from a spot of wild nature, to the hint of what was once and with the cranes and tall buildings in the distance is a hint of what is to come.
So I shall await those communications.
For now I just like the picture, and given just how much of the area has been developed and is being developed as I write, Andy’s picture is one to treasure.
But then so is his road picture, which captures the iconic bridge and something of the Dallas style properties.
I have to say the traffic seems quite sparse but again there will be somebody with a theory.
For now I shall close with yet another of those green things, which pretty much proves the old observation that nature abhors a vacuum and given half a chance something will start growing where once carts and wagons rolled purposely over pathways.
And I bet someone will know what the plant is. And quick as a flash Bill Sumner came back with, "recognised your plant immediately as Evening Primrose (gives out its scent after dark), a quick check on Google gives us -Genus Oenothera and species biennis this being the wild variety it flowers in its second year", followed by Ted who suggested that the site was a former chemical plant. Now that can't be bad.
Location; at Pomona
Pictures; down by Pomona, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson
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