fern express

2013-04-09

Photographer: me

Steel ruled hard here, once, till a soft, living carpet ate the Fern Express.

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I was waiting to board a ferry to Alcatraz, at Pier 33 in San Francisco, when I noticed this overgrown track alongside one of the buildings. The dereliction and the enthusiastic plant growth made it hard to imagine, but once upon a time I suppose that this was newly constructed evidence of progress. Kind of reminds me of Shelley’s “Ozymandias.”