Comments on: Beautiful Urban Moments – Part V

By: rc

rc — Fri, 26 May 2006 17:56:20 +0000

Ah, now that’s interesting – I hadn’t thought that the previous trees’ roots would be in the way, but of course that does make sense. Still, it’s too bad that it makes renewing an allée so tricky.

As for baseball – I don’t have anything against the game – it’s not that I’d insist it be soccer or something. It’s only that to my mind baseball is the least flexible way to lay out a field. The gravel/dirt infield (especially if there’s a proper raised mound) plays havoc with any attempt to use the field for other purposes unless you stick to the outfield – and of course whereas with soccer, you remove the posts and it’s gone, with baseball, you have the cage, the infield, the mound – it doesn’t just disappear. Also you can’t divide it up and play two baseball games at the same time the way you can just casually use a soccer/football pitch.

Those are my thoughts anyways.

By the way Mark, when writing about Dovercourt Park, I had in mind that little park near Kingston-upon-Thames’ centre on the way to your first place there from the train station. I believe it’s called Fairfield Park. It has a similar allée dividing it into two parts (in that case, one side soccer fields, one side cricket).

I even found a picture of it online:

Fairfield Park Photo
-rc

By: Gigantic Hound

Gigantic Hound — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:36:28 +0000

WRT to the planting sites – planting a new tree exactly where an old one was for many years won’t work well in the first decade or so after the old tree dies. there are the old stumps and roots to deal with (a rot accelerant will speed this up, but still), and the soil will be exhausted in that area.

I agree that breaking the line is unfortunate.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 May 2006 04:13:42 +0000

Yo what you got against baseball? :-) There’s none of that rubbish in the southern hemisphere.
Unless endless rugby pitches count. Not even cold enough to flood ‘em and put them to a good use like hockey.