Pick Your Horizon, II
A few weeks ago I posted about the views on my ride to work. Today is the sort of day which makes you happy to live outside the city—I almost wrote, “Happy to live here,” but I can think of other places I’d love to be on a day like today, as well. So I hauled the camera along on my ride in this morning. The hayfield which had been just cut with big rolls all over wasn’t as scenic this time, but I did get shots of the glorious desert-in-Massachusetts architecture of UMass, and the overlook from which you can see bustling downtown Whately.
I’ve put the photos in the “extended” entry as usual, so you only have to download them if you want to see them.
Now playing: Change The Locks from She’s The One by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
The Fine Arts Center at UMass, with the Library visible behind it. Rumor has it the Fine Arts Center was designed for a university in Arizona, but they decided not to build it; UMass bought the design and built it almost unchanged. Except that sandstorms aren’t usually a hazard around here.
This is one of the highest points in Amherst, outside the Holyoke Range to the south. It’s right up at the border with Sunderland and Leverett, and the view here is looking roughly west across Hadley and Sunderland to Whately, on the other side of the river. The buildings and steeple are the “downtown” of Whately, with the hills of the Berkshires rising behind it.
![[Swinging off a dragger, Cundy's Harbor, Maine, July 4th, 2003]](/images/cundys_harbor.jpg)