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Shadow Shapes
We made two visits to The Pearl; one was on Saturday during the farmers market, when there was a lot going on. (Translation: too many people for me to make any images.) So then we went back on a late-afternoon Sunday, and I got to see this uncluttered-by-people view of shadows wrapping themselves around the building.
The Pearl
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015
The reason escapes me
Did they run out of paint? Or energy? Or did they realize that’s an awful shade of green?
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015
PS: When I was in architecture school, my professor Dan MacGilvray called that particular shade of green “snake shit green” and said we’d flunk his class if we used that color in any of our renderings. That threat – however hollow it may have been – still hangs around in my head.
Trees Beyond
Across the broad lawn, a loudspeaker carried the sounds of Mass (in Spanish) almost as if the ghosts of the Spanish founders of the mission were still trying to convert the locals.
And I found a quiet scene unfolding beyond the ruins of a never-completed mission building.
Mission San Juan
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015
The approach
Remember yesterday, when I mentioned how we were easily amused by the locks and dam on the River Walk. Here’s Exhibit Two: a water taxi approaching the lock!
San Antonio River Walk, Museum Reach
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015
Dam the river
The Museum Reach part of the River Walk features a little dam and a set of locks. People from places where locks and/or dams are a thing probably laugh about how much entertainment value we felt these two things added to our River Walk walk.
San Antonio River Walk, Museum Reach
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015
One Day | One Image 