I’m going to head back into the Blue Mtn. Urban Landscape today for more picture taking and wanted to make sure I finished the texts for the related posts I had already created. So here goes!…
Actually all of the related photos remaining to be talked about from last week’s photo shoots are from a particular location on Leola Creek, reachable from behind the town mall. The Urban Landscape “trail” basically skirts the creek to the south and west of this mall. Two concrete drainage channels leading off from the back parking lot allow direct access to the two beachy areas involved.
This is the first one, further west and and smaller.
This is the second. Although I worked at this mall for about a 5 year period during the mid 80’s and explored a lot of the immediate area, I don’t recall this rather large rocky beach. Perhaps it has formed in the meantime. Anyway, the discovery of it this past weekend was quite the pleasant surprise. I immediately felt it to be another psychic center of the BMUL.
A quite mysterious large sphere is firmed lodged in the creekbed here. I’ll attempt to take a better picture of the object this weekend.
Looking west toward the first beach pictured above.
I forgot to include a photo I had of the quite interesting cliff region across the water from the rocky beach, but that’s okay. I’ll take more pictures this weekend, like I said.
To the left in the below photo is the second drainage channel, counting from west to east. And at about a 45 degree angle relative to it is the first and matching channel to the right.
One additional note for now: Although you can reach second beach from first beach along the creek, it is not an altogether easy walk through some weeds.
07/26/15:
Now last Sunday’s pictures.
It was hotter than the previous day, and I didn’t take nearly as many snapshots of the BMUL. However, I did get this neat photo from the public garden area near its center: 3 closely placed benches forming an equilateral triangle. More geometry to think about (!).
And I also got some decent pictures of neighboring ALO, as I’m calling it, including the first picture in this blog of the house I joked to wife Edna about that I wanted to buy there. Add in that the small unassuming structure is also just across the road from a 16 unit student housing building and you can perhaps understand Edna’s total lack of enthusiasm for my idea. But yes, to me it’s still a central place.
Although you probably can’t make it out, the entrance to the ALO shortcut path already talked several times before is in the vegetation to the right in the above photo. Or actually I think it would be just beyond the right side of that photo, or just to the north that white pine tree.
At any rate, here’s the path shortly after the beginning, white pine to left. The dead evergreen in both the above and below photo may be a failed attempt at replanting an old Christmas tree.
Center of ALO and also the ALO path. The mysterious wooden object seen before here has disappeared.
Sunklands 
