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Gas pumps in storage
Just because we could: that’s why my friend Jo and I left Lubbock after work the other day and drove the 90 miles or so down to Snyder, Texas. It stays light so late in the summer that we had plenty of time to get down there to take a few* pictures before it got dark.
You know my rule about looking around back, right? After I took a few (dozen) shots of an old gas station, we went around back and saw where the gas pumps were stored.
But before that happened, a man pulled his pickup into the parking lot, parked in the shade of the building next door, and had the following conversation with me:
Man: You takin’ pictures?
Me: Yes, sir, I am.
Man (with narrowed eyes and suspicious voice): Why?
Me: I like this building!
Man (with same eyes-and-voice): Why?
Me: I can’t explain it, really. I just like old buildings.
Man (with resignation in his voice): Oh. I was hopin’ you was a real estate appraiser. I’m tryin’ to sell this place.
I didn’t make his day, but his building made mine.
Snyder, Texas
photographed 7.10.2013
* Few = 93
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
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
Toilet
“You’re taking a picture of….the bathroom?” the woman asked me. (She was, obviously, unfamiliar with my work.)
So, of course I took a picture of the bathroom. And not just THIS bathroom either – I took several photos of the restroom at the airport on Taveuni.
(Now that I re-read this, it strikes me that maybe there is something a little odd about taking pictures of bathrooms. Perhaps I’ve said too much.)
Bouma National Heritage Park
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.6.2013
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