There's lots to be said for a diverse community. Most of us looked at the telegraph pole on site and (if we thought anything at all) thought 'look, there's a telegraph pole'.
Frances, on the other hand, thought 'that would be the perfect spot to mount a timelapse camera'. She sorted out the kit and found several brave/foolhardy souls to volunteer to shin up the pole every few weeks and change the camera's battery and memory card.
And this is what her vision is beginning to deliver. We now have a fantastic record of activity on site during the late summer and autumn of 2011. The first video shows some site clearance and the Common House beginning to rise out of the ground. The second one shows early construction of Terrace A.
But what's also lovely is the view of the trees and the river, with leaves falling and shadows lengthening as the season changes. Next time the light falls that way and the trees look like that, we'll be living there looking at them.
jo
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