Monthly Archives: November 2014
Preparations for the weekend
There was going to be some sort of event in the park – the city crews spent the better part of the week getting the tents set up. I overheard a couple discussing it – the man said, “I think it’s the food festival.” and the woman said, “Oh! That can be our adventure this weekend.” That little scrap of their conversation made me smile and I hope they did enjoy it.
St. Petersburg, Florida
photographed 10.27.2014
Hotel Lobby
Florida’s not JUST parking garage vents; it’s also got hotel lobbies. This one is in the Vinoy Renaissance. It was a grand hotel in the 1920s, then fell into disrepair before being redone. Among nice things at the Vinoy is a wide, shady front porch with rocking chairs and a view of a park and the bay. There’s a very good possibility that I’ve spent my fair share of time on the porch…
St. Petersburg, Florida
photographed 10.27.2014
Louvers
What do you think is wrong with me?*
I go to Florida, stay in a lovely hotel by the bay, and take a picture of the ventilation louvers from the parking garage?!?
St. Petersburg, Florida
photographed 10.27.2014
*Maybe I don’t really want you to answer that…
A riverside entrance
Well, this is pretty classy. This hotel has its own entrance to the Riverwalk (not the crowded regular part, but the quieter part known as the Museum Reach) and its own water taxi stop!
(I didn’t stay here. I stayed beside the Alamo, in a place that’s widely thought to be haunted. My room was so small that there would not have been room for a ghost. And the leaf-blower guy comes out at 6:00 every morning to leaf blow the walk around the Alamo. And tour buses just outside my window break the 20-minute parking sign with regularility. There may be better hotel options in town.)
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 10.25.2014
Boiler House
The former Pearl Brewery has been transformed into a very nice conglomeration of restaurants, shops, outdoor markets, music events, and so forth. The old boiler house is now home to a restaurant called – this is complicated! – the Boiler House. It has a “casual yet energetic atmosphere” which I think means “loud.” But it also has wine and craft beer, so I guess after a while that atmosphere won’t be bothersome.
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 10.25.2014
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