Random Thoughts

[brigdh]

I've been back in Ohio for several days now, and it's always the little things that most surprise me. The size of the sky, for instance. It's not that I ever feel closed in when in the city, but as soon as I get out of the airport here, the horizons seem so distant. There's almost a sense that I could actually see the curve of the earth.

Which you can't, of course, and the feeling fades fairly quickly anyway, but it's strange. In a lovely way, though I'm equally fond of the canyons down the avenues in the city, the narrow slices of sky between the rows of buildings.

And it's so much darker here! Nothing like when I spent the summer in Nevada, which was the darkest I've ever seen a night sky: actually black and an unbelievable number of stars, even the Milky Way was visible, which I'd never seen before. Columbus's night sky is more a deep indigo, and you can pick out the Big Dipper and sometimes Orion, but not much more than that.

It's funny the small things that stand out to you, the things you don't notice until they change.

Comments

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

I grew up in the city, so I remember being fascinated by the sprawl of less densely populated places after I'd moved. Also, graffiti-less buildings looked drab and personality-less to me.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! I'd forgotten that. And so many of the buildings here are recent ones, while New York's cover a few centuries, so there's a real sense of repetition and conformity to the architecture here.

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the uniformity of buildings also got to me. I liked the mixture of buildings from different eras.