This weekend, I had the chance to visit the Albany Bulb for the first time. Formerly a landfill construction debris dump, then the home to a small community and their art pieces, and finally the site of eviction and potentially a redeveloped park for the regional park system, the Bulb has an interesting history that makes you think about rights to ownership, cultivation and settlement, and wilderness in the middle of a highly urbanized place. The entire time, we could peer out at the edge of the water and see the San Francisco skyline from across the Bay.
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