The canal at Second Street.
I live about a half mile from the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. It is a smelly, filthy, problematic body of water, often vilified and ridiculed. As I write this, the canal is being considered for federal Superfund status. It is a neighborhood joke, and a source of shame and anxiety for many of those who live near it.
I would like to look at the Gowanus in a different way. As a place where things live and grow. As a natural habitat.
Daisy fleabane, I think, blooming in the Lowe's parking lot on the eastern bank of the canal. July 4, 2009.
I will be doing that here.
Tags: habitat, introduction, smell, Superfund