Estate management
Nov. 22nd, 2014 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceWe had lunch in the city with Ellen and Mad, so we did, m'wife and I. And then we were nearly home, and I noted a street name as we passed, and wondered aloud whether all the other streets in the development were named in tune with that one: for it was called Cumulus Avenue, and, y'know. Naming a whole slew of streets after clouds? Fun, I thought. Especially in Silicon Valley, where we are all about the cloud.
So I looked on Google Maps - and not so much, alas. There is Cumulus, so there is of course Cirrus, for these are the two that people know. And linking them both is Azure, which, fair enough. When the sky's not cloudy all day, it does tend to be blue around hereabouts. But the streets that bracket them are Debussy, Brahms and Ives. Okay, so we're hearing the music of the clouds, I guess - except that then if you want to get out you have to leave by way of Goya and Cezanne. Umm, perhaps they're notable for their painting of the sky...?
Maybe it's just me, but we are pattern-seeking creatures, we humans, and I do think people should make more of an effort to seed the environment with actual, y'know, patterns. There ought to be laws. One development, one theme. Hell, they didn't need to look far for an example; whoever laid out the main streets around here was big on girls' names (they may have had a lot of daughters). We have Evelyn and Maude and Mathilda and Mary, all neatly intersecting. That's the way to do it.
So I looked on Google Maps - and not so much, alas. There is Cumulus, so there is of course Cirrus, for these are the two that people know. And linking them both is Azure, which, fair enough. When the sky's not cloudy all day, it does tend to be blue around hereabouts. But the streets that bracket them are Debussy, Brahms and Ives. Okay, so we're hearing the music of the clouds, I guess - except that then if you want to get out you have to leave by way of Goya and Cezanne. Umm, perhaps they're notable for their painting of the sky...?
Maybe it's just me, but we are pattern-seeking creatures, we humans, and I do think people should make more of an effort to seed the environment with actual, y'know, patterns. There ought to be laws. One development, one theme. Hell, they didn't need to look far for an example; whoever laid out the main streets around here was big on girls' names (they may have had a lot of daughters). We have Evelyn and Maude and Mathilda and Mary, all neatly intersecting. That's the way to do it.