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Two guardian posts in the shape of huge, white-painted arrows stood on either side of the palace stairway.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Two guardian posts in the shape of huge, white-painted arrows stood on either side of the palace stairway.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

There were also white-painted numbered stakes pounded into the ground to mark the long, skinny lot boundaries, each lot a mile deep and a few hundred feet wide, running across the sage-covered upland at the top of the cliff, straight down the four-hundred-foot face of the cliff, across the river and to the south property line so that the developer could claim each had river frontage.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Walking up to its white-painted facade, the first thing that struck me was the graffiti on the outside walls.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

There were also white-painted numbered stakes pounded into the ground to mark the long, skinny lot boundaries, each lot a mile deep and a few hundred feet wide, running across the sage-covered upland at the top of the cliff, straight down the four-hundred-foot face of the cliff, across the river and to the south property line so that the developer could claim each had river frontage.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

There were also white-painted numbered stakes pounded into the ground to mark the long, skinny lot boundaries, each lot a mile deep and a few hundred feet wide, running across the sage-covered upland at the top of the cliff, straight down the four-hundred-foot face of the cliff, across the river and to the south property line so that the developer could claim each had river frontage.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Walking up to its white-painted facade, the first thing that struck me was the graffiti on the outside walls.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

The official name was the William Mead Housing Project, and it housed four hundred fifty cookie-cutters that stood back to back in bleak uniformity; two- and three-story brick blocks painted tan-red with a thick white-painted band separating each floor.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

There were also white-painted numbered stakes pounded into the ground to mark the long, skinny lot boundaries, each lot a mile deep and a few hundred feet wide, running across the sage-covered upland at the top of the cliff, straight down the four-hundred-foot face of the cliff, across the river and to the south property line so that the developer could claim each had river frontage.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The official name was the William Mead Housing Project, and it housed four hundred fifty cookie-cutters that stood back to back in bleak uniformity; two- and three-story brick blocks painted tan-red with a thick white-painted band separating each floor.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011