Today my mother and I went for a spring walk around the neighbourhood. I was struck by the beauty of life in the state of renewal and decay. There were so many glowing spring blooms poping up close to the ground, but still the buds are not quite ripe and last years blooms still flutter in the trees.
The other thing that struck me is the blatant waste, privatization and comercialisation of the landscape in this area. The greenspace is slowly being eroded, huge condos are going up and houses in the area are being bought up and torn down to make mega houses. The areas that surround them are left disturbed and strangely barren.
We walked around for an hour or so, and at that point I realized the only public place we had found to sit and relax was on a piece of discarded concrete on a damaged (and yet to be sold) stretch of land on look off lane. We still hadn’t come across one garbage can. It seemed there were no crosswalks where there should be. The city of Halifax needs some serious help! By that I mean the seemingly impossible dream of being planned and governed in an ecologically and socially responsible way.
Our journey in photos :
click through the photos for more details on the walk.
