I went for a walk with Laura Harrington, who is artist-in-residence at Environment Agency. We walked  by the Ouseburn – a small river off the Tyne in a surprisingly quiet and neglected-seeming part of Newcastle not so far from the center, after driving with her in the EA’s  funny little  electric car.

This next pic is by someone on flickr – Paul J White –  who calls Ouseburn “the cradle of the Industrial Revolution.” I bet some brief research would show this brownfields holdover as a pretty interesting ecosystem now.