Monthly Archives: July 2013
White on white, 10
On the top level of a parking garage along South Beverly Drive, I spotted this bit of graffiti. And a security camera. Or, perhaps more accurately, a “security” camera.
Beverly Hills, California
photographed 6.26.2013
The night game
The thing is that I don’t really consider myself a fan of baseball. I don’t keep up with teams or standings or scandals or anything like that.
But, for some reason, I love to go to baseball games.
When I travel during the baseball season (defined in my mind as the “just before it gets really hot until sometime in the fall”), and I am going to a city with a team (major league, or minor: I don’t care), I will always look at the schedule to see if I can catch a game. So, I’ve seen games in Seattle, San Francisco, Kansas City, Arlington, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Albuquerque, Round Rock (Texas), and probably a few others that I don’t remember just now.
And so, on a spare night in Los Angeles, it was the Dodgers v. the Giants. It was a lovely evening, as we watched the two teams battle it out. When I wasn’t watching the game, I was playing with my camera and watching the falling light play across the concrete stadium. It was a lovely night.
Oh, and the Dodgers won.
Dodger Stadium
Los Angeles, California
photographed 6.25.2013
The best part of the trip
No words. Really. Just none.
the night skies
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.5.2013
Roofline and eaves
After I took a picture of the restroom and the park headquarters, I saw this marvelous bit of architectural detailing. I liked the corrugated metal roof and the shadow it made on the eaves. Look closely and maybe you can see the bit of a spider web on the roof.
That reminds me – elsewhere on the island, I saw a spider in a web. That’s not too remarkable, except that I was IN A BUS when I saw it. And it was on the opposite side of the road. And it was so gigantic that I easily spotted it from across the road. I’m not that person that gets all freaked out over a spider. Except maybe that one, the one that was a big as a house cat. (OK. So maybe it wasn’t quite THAT big. But it was at least as big as, well, a really big spider.)
Bouma National Park
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.5.2013
The social implications of recharge stations
Every village we went to had a store that advertised cell phone charging locations.
All of the electricity on the island is produced either via generators or solar panels.
Many of the houses that are away from the towns or villages didn’t appear to have power.
Hence: charging stations.
It made me think about the way technology has impacted the ability of island residents to communicate with each other, even if they DO have to get into town to charge their phones. Does it make their worlds seem smaller, though, or larger? Or, just different?
Wairiki Village
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.5.2013
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