the shoe tour

had a fine survey of atlanta's casual footwear yesterday as cousin cathi and i did the modern atlanta home tour in the rain--- there was some bad architecture but there was some good design, too, like the first one, the rain-shine house, as it was called--- LEED certified, which is all great until you discover they tore down a 1920s house to do it--- there was more than one on the tour in that category--- i don't understand how anything can be called "green" that begins with tearing down a structure already built, especially one in decent shape--- cathi got tired of me saying "but it's a tear down"----