Firstly, I would like to apologize for the poor quality of the photos. Due to my schedule, I could not get to my area before sundown. Some photos do have this grainy, hyperreal effect to them. Due to the lighting in some places, I may not have been as observant as I would have been during the day. This is not ideal of course, but I was able to find
Date: 04/10/2022 Time: Afternoon 4pm-6pm Weather: 68°F, Warm and Sunny Spring has come at quite an unexpected speed. I still remember driving in a snow storm last Friday, but now it’s warm and sunny. The entire neighborhood is bathed in sunlight, and one can only see sporadic snow piles in the shadow area. Of course, traces of the long winter are still visible in the neighborhood, though assuming a more
I began my walk at the corner of 4th Street and Winona street, by Central Park, the bright sunny morning of April 11th. I had just left the Weitz, backpack in tow, and was looking forward to spending some time outside. I actually chose this route because I knew it was close to the Weitz. I’ve probably spent more time in that building than any other at Carleton, besides my
For this project, I chose to walk the four block chunk of East Northfield from 5th Street stretching down to 9th Street, constrained on the sides by College Street to the West and Winona Street to the East. Shortly after 11 am, post-class, I walked down to the start of my area at the corner of 5th and College. It was a lovely morning, sunny and warm, not yet sweat-inducing.
On the 9th of April, Easter Sunday, I set out to walk the roughly four blocks of the Fareway neighborhood, starting at the beginning of the park outside of Northfield Memorial Pool. At the start of the walk, the air smelled of gasoline. A few children played basketball as I took out my notebook. On the opposite side of the road, a few other children skateboarded. Besides the noise of
Step one of intentionally walking four blocks of Northfield directly south of Carleton College’s campus is abandoning your backpack behind a tree; my dorm was too far away, my computer and books were too heavy, and time was ticking. Step two is inviting a friend along, under the condition that they don’t distract you. My friend Felicia, a junior German major at Carleton, was looking for someone to hang out
My walk today took me all over a section of a neighborhood that I assumed I’d be more familiar with, but it turns out that I haven’t really walked any of these streets, even though my current dormitory is but a half block away from the perimeter of the zone! Nevertheless, I began my walk excited to see where the afternoon would take me. This day was the first time
Monday was a glorious day for a neighborhood stroll, and I began exploring by heading south on Maple Street from 2nd Street East. I passed lots of beautiful houses on my walk, and a few of the ones closest to campus had Black Lives Matters or We Believe yard signs. The houses in this part of Northfield are an eclectic mix of several different styles, colors, sizes, and layouts that
I started my walk at around 1PM on Saturday afternoon after finishing a work shift in the Weitz Center for Creativity. It was extremely nice out, and as I walked south on Union Street I saw several people out enjoying the weather (and one very cute dog) and heard plenty of birdsong. Once I reached the intersection of 5th Street and Union Street where my area begins, I took a
