For a few months I have been taking semiweekly photographs of the rugged construction site occupying the place where an indoor shopping complex, Westgate Mall, once stood. Work at the site through autumn was peripheral when it wasn't imperceptible, the west view from my office commanded by a great hill of earth, as if a motte for a wooden keep.
Yesterday, the hill had been drawn flat and today, construction crews are swarming about newly arrived steel building frames. I haven't taken photographs as regularly as I might have hoped, but at the current pace, differences between photographs — in the record I hope to complete — will be less a consequence of time than determination of the contractor.