Category:Travel
‘Black Door Lemon Wall’ is a photo I took while wandering around the French Quarter in New Orleans. The warm colors of the buildings come from the creole heritage of the region. The term ‘creole’ denotes people born in the region or descended from people born in the region rather than colonists born in their mother country or first generation immigrants. For New Orleans this includes a mix of French, Spanish, and ‘free people of color’. They all shared a […]
From yesterday’s photo of the church of the Immaculate Conception in San Diego to the Carmel Mission, up the coast aways in Carmel. The missions in California are all tied to the work of the Franciscan friar, Junipero Serra, who was beatified in 1998 and canonized in 2015. The Mission Carmel marked the northern outpost of the Spanish in Californa. The Mission Carmel dates from 1771, Serra having relocated it from the original site in Monterey. This was Serra’s base […]
Pismo Surfer 2 was surfing on the other side of the pier. Whereas yesterday’s Pismo Surfer was surfing away from the pier, this one was surfing towards it. I’d like to think he’s looking at the pilings of the pier to decide when to end his run. The surfers to the north of the pier seemed to my untrained eye to be having better waves and better runs. Perhaps the pier itself was sucking energy out of the water making […]
Pismo Surfer was taken from the pier at Pismo Beach. I am not a surfer. I’m a lousy swimmer at the best of times so I’d admire these people that go out and ride the waves. Especially in the cold, early hours of a fall day. I’d love to know why the surfers congregated on both sides of the pier. I could only see a few further afield. I’d have thought surfing by the pier would have risked a collision […]
Pulteney Bridge in Bath, England, was built in 1774. It’s one of only four bridges in the world to have shops across the full span on both sides according to wikipedia. It’s form was altered within 20 years of opening, being widened and enlarging the shops. Shortly after it was damaged by flooding and debate over it’s rebuilding raged between the modernists and the classicists. The classicists won and it was rebuilt somewhat less ambitiously but more in keeping with […]
In today’s photo, a group of work colleagues approach the gate on the western wall of Tagrifet Fort. I previously posted a photo of the fort from the air as the pilot approached the fort. He visually identified a place to land, landed on the sandy plain to the east of the fort and we scrambled up the bluff from the south. I suspect the fort was abandoned in WWII. All that’s left now is the stonework and the barbed […]