A recent marker graffito on the stairway at Northbank park is not immediately clear, in fact, I don't understand it at all. "Where is your God now that clouds attack?" At first, it seems to make an oblique reference to the recent natural & nuclear disasters in Japan with clouds of radioactive material irradiating the populace....but now I'm not so sure.
If this is what it means, then why the "God" reference? The Japanese are not especially associated with religion or Western concepts of deity. Is it some kind of Zen koan?
Further downstream, there are the remnants of a wooden platform, incomplete probably because the builders didn't realize they were building next to a dense mat of poison ivy. On the 4x4 posts, some local artists left us the following gifts...
