Nurit and I went to Butchart Gardens in British Columbia yesterday. It was magnificent.
The last time we visited was thirty years ago on our honeymoon. We were charmed by it then, even though it was raining. Yesterday was a wonderful sunny day and as we left the garden and drove throught the dreary commercial strip and along the bill board marked road I had a very zen thought. What if the total beauty that can be appreciated in a area has to remain constant. Call it the Total Beauty Appreciation (TBA). For the mathematicians: the Beauty (on a 1 to 10 scale) times the number of viewers at X locations in an area is a constant. So if the number of viewers of Butchard Gardens increases and the beauty of the gardens is enhanced an area nearby will have an equal and opposite decrease in its beauty.
I’ll post some pictures and talk some more about this when we get back from Alaska.