traveling, leaving logic and reason

it's about time for me to blast off,
break up into light particles & transport my matter
to explore distant locals & immeasurable wonders!

yes, it's that time again...to travel back through time zones
to the magical world of california for APE 2006! it's the
alternative press expo, it's like the indie world of comics and i get to peddle the wares of the ultra talented & hardworking monica!

i knew the seasons were changing in the city when
i witnessed something i had seen about this very time last year
i heard a noise from the fire escape of the building next to ours,
a kinda run down place who's curtains/windows are always shut
and very rarely do i see anyone come or go from its doors...

so this guy appears from the 2nd floor and shuffles down into the backyard, an overgrown patch of grass littered w/ trash from the alley, closed in by a high chain link fence topped w/ barbed wire.
and he proceeded to gather up all the trash and yanks out all
the overgrown weeds and dead brushy stuff to reveal this
15ft. strip of cleared garden which is inhabited with a
slightly pathetic cluster of 2 snapdragons & 3 tulips..
and then he disappears back into the dark building
and i don't seem him out there again for another year.

i am fascinated by this guy's ritual impressive yet anticlimactic landscaping. it's not much, but it does give our little, crime-ridden alley some color... it's always nice to see some green amid the rampant gray of the city.

speaking of green, my fave part of san francisco is how the dense mass of city sprawl is surrounded by these fairly unpopulated rolling green hills that tend catch light perfectly...
oh, and this awesome sculpture around the escalators down
to the BART station at the airport, made of thousands of metallic discs that are manipulated by wind and train movement to shimmer the senses.