Monthly Archives: April 2013

This keeps the whole thing running

042013

Way above Albuquerque, this machinery keeps the Sandia Peak Tram moving up and down the mountain. You can see another view of the structure on the Tram Cam.

I’d explain how all this works, only I don’t really know. I could ask a certain civil engineer of my acquaintance, but his explanations tend to be rather lengthy. (I once asked him, as we were leaving the house for a one-hour drive to my grandfather’s house, to explain pre- and post-stressed concrete. He was just winding up the lecture as we pulled into my grandfather’s driveway. At least it wasn’t a FIVE hour trip…..)

above Albuquerque
photographed 11.2.2012

The church by the beach

041913

This might be St. Joseph Anglican Church. Unless it isn’t. Information seems unusually hard to find.

But anyway, I am almost positive if I had this just across the road, the time I’d be inside any kind of building would be fairly minimal.

Bathsheba, Barbados
photographed 6.24.2011

It’s just a game

041813

I want to believe that the placement of a basketball goal next to a cemetery was the result of a priest’s attempt at illustrating some kind of theology.

Or maybe it was just where the ground was open enough and level enough for it to work.

beside Our Lady, Help of Christians Catholic Church
Frankenstein, Missouri

photographed 6.2006

White on white, 5

041713

Remember how, in the White on White, 4 post, I mentioned the possibility of perhaps using shots taken somewhere other than Texas?

Here we go: New Mexico!

3rd Street SW, between Central and Gold Avenues
Albuquerque, New Mexico

photographed 9.2.2012

On the other hand…

041613

On the other hand, not being adequately informed for a trip might mean that you end up in some place (let’s just call it “Redding, California”) that you chose for no other reason than it was approximately half-way between one place and somewhere else.

When that happens, the best thing to do is spend your time away from “Redding, California.”

Shasta State Historic Park
Shasta, California

photographed 8.3.2012