Category:Travel
Does one ‘bale out’ or ‘bail out’? In this case, the man in the photo is bailing out as in he is using a pan to move water from a ditch. If I were a writer for the Guardian I’d probably be in hot water now as their style guide prefers the ‘bale’ spelling for removing water. But the Guardian is just wrong on this point. The English ‘bail’ derives from the French for bucket, ‘baille’. Anyway, this was a […]
Pump It, not the song by the Black Eyed Peas, but oil. When I was looking at this photo that song was running through my mind, though. Oil closed above $40 a barrel yesterday for the first time in 2016, extending the rally since the low of $26.21 per barrel on February 11, 2016. There have been massive layoffs across the industry over the last year and they’re continuing this year. The industry has lost more US jobs over the […]
Sometimes a sign is too good to pass up. When I passed the ‘Death Valley Health Center’ sign in Shoshone I just had to pull over and capture an image. It reminded me of a sign I once saw in Bennington, Vermont (I’ve yet to scan that one so will save it for a future post). I think it was the juxtaposition of the phrases ‘Death Valley’ and ‘Health Center’ that struck me as somewhat ironic. The name of the […]
‘History is Myth’, proclaims this mural from the mid-1990s. Officially the mural was called, ‘Venice Reconstituted’ and was painted in 1989. The full mural (this is full height but only about half width) was 21 ft high by 100 ft long. Painted by renowned muralist Rip Cronk with assistants: Juan Burgueno Jr, Elizabeth Tenchavez, Bruce Smith, Dimitree Kadiev and Mishell Caldwell, it was located at Speedway and Windward Ave., Venice – a few blocks north of Muscle Beach. Despite being […]
The Magnificent Eight is what I’m calling this San Diego mural. I’ve no idea what it was really called or who it was by and I doubt it exists today. I took it in 1995 or 1996 in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. The frame before contains the Embassy Suites and looks like it was taken from the vicinity of what is now Ruocco Park. The two frames after were taken at 5th and J. But all three of […]
The Silver Lining was a jewelry cart in the Westfield Horton Plaza in San Diego. In this photo, three sailors peruse rings. Well, two of them do. The other seems to be gazing at the ear rings. Modern-day wanna-be pirates? I didn’t hang around long enough to know if they actually bought something. This cart was in an open walkway that splits the plaza diagonally. I don’t remember it being windy so I’m not sure why the sailor in the […]