{"id":1068,"date":"2020-07-30T22:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:13:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T10:13:03","slug":"revisiting-the-lenses-and-landscapes-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/30\/revisiting-the-lenses-and-landscapes-of-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Lenses and Landscapes of Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We all feel the remarkable lack of control<\/a> over the day-to-day, many of us for the first time. Today effortlessly merges with yesterday; washing hands, masking up and measuring two-metre spaces are the new human agenda. My self-therapy is to continually revisit<\/a> the lenses and landscapes and place, including the ebb and flow of safety, politics, equity, and economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walk to Settlement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Economy Arrives to the Country
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A Place on the Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Where Cultures Merged<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Several times in the past few weeks, I’ve been to England’s West Berkshire<\/a>, Hampshire<\/a>, and Wiltshire<\/a>, mixing again rural and urban themes from 2013 and 2017 trips to the Palouse<\/a> in Eastern Washington State, and last year’s 13 days on the Portuguese Camino<\/a>. My purpose is to show the contrast of city, village, and countryside, their inhabitants, colors, and contrasts, all muted a bit in these pandemic times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the interests of efficiency, I’ve embedded below a link to memories of the 2013 Palouse trip, to add to my entries here on how places of universal qualities endure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the rural landscape, through an urbanist lens<\/a><\/blockquote>