Anna Glenn has been designing productive communities - for aesthetic, ecological, and economic benefit - since 1998.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Sidewalk Deconstruction & Reconstruction – Day 2

The Front Yard, looking East, During & After

 10/4, 12:08pm

10/5, 1:40pm
 
10/8, 2:18pm

What the neighbor's see, Before & After

10/4, 10:40am

10/5, 11:40am

Porch view, Before & After

10/4, 2:40pm

10/5, 3:03pm

Finally, an added joy to a project is the discovery of artifacts. Here's what we found:

Our sidewalk on the left (cut and moved), pre-existing sidewalk on the right (discovered below ours).

Note the relative 'thin-ness' of the horizontal piece in the middle, the pre-existing sidewalk, thought to be 50+ years old.


These two images show leaf prints found on the underside of one excavated piece of sidewalk. In contrast to every other piece, which was covered with chunks of old concrete, this one caught my attention! It appears we have imprints of leaves from two tree types, an American Elm and some kind of Maple.







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