Inktober 2019: Aerial View
Aerial views and maps to accompany daily prompts.
Bait | Worm Farm | Durham, CA - In case you ever wondered, there are worm farms out there, selling worms for fishing and composting.
Build | Burks Family Cemetery | Louisville, KY - Cities build up all around us, sometimes over the old, sometimes around. In Kentucky, there’s a perfect example of a city building up around the old. In this spot you can do some shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond, grab a bite to eat at Panara, and pay your respects at the Burks family cemetery. The cemetery was in use from 1841 to 1855 and includes five, well kept graves. Four of the graves are marked with an obelisk and a ledger slab, reflecting the wealth of the family that resided on the horse farm that used to occupy that land. James and Matilda Burks, their two sons Charles and Samuel, and an unknown child are buried here.⠀
Frail | Paper Town | Agloe, New York - Paper Towns are fictitious towns added to maps as “copyright traps”. Agloe came to be in the 1930s when General Drafting founder Otto G. LIndberg and an assistant Ernest Alpers created an anagram of their initials and added it to an intersection in the Catskill Mountains. It wasn’t long before General Drafting discovered its competitor, Rand McNally, had added Agloe to a map. Rand McNally argued they didn’t copy anything and that Agloe was a legit town. And they were right, the Agloe General Store had been built right at that intersection, making Agloe a legit spot on the map. Agloe appeared on maps as recently as the 1990s, but has now been deleted. ⠀
Pattern | Zumbrota, MN
Snow | Fukaura Snow Carrots | Japan -Surrounded by Shirakami-Sanchi (a World Heritage Property), Fukaura has mountains, the sea, a substantial fishing industry, and snow carrots. Snow carrots came about by chance when a local fisherman, turned farmer, was facing decreased income during the winter. One day he was digging up some carrots he assumed were ruined by a heavy, late-Fall snowfall. But to his surprise the carrots were deliciously sweet. With some continued development he’s been successfully growing Fakaura Snow Carrots for 20 years. These carrots aren’t like the ones you find in the grocery store, they’re grown on high grounds at the foot of the mountains. Carrots are harvested between December and March, each one dug out of the snow by hand, in freezing temperatures. Harvesting them at the coldest time of the year means that the carrot ensures a sweet carrot. Carrots protect themselves by converting starch to sugar.⠀