Danger de Mort!

I believe this is warning fisherman not to get their lines caught in the live wires which were, incidentally, at least 20 feet up in the air. Electrocuting oneself would have been quite a feat.

For See It Sunday--theme "danger."

Great Grapes

One of my first nights in France this summer, we stayed in a chateau. Actually we stayed in the outbuildings of a chateau. The place was charming but we found our hostess cold and unwelcoming. I guess not everything that glitters is gold.

For See It Sunday--grape.

Nantes at Night

I spied on the neighborhood nightlife from my hotel window in Nantes, France.

See It Sunday--Night

Bicycle

Personally, I really like this photo. I didn't even notice that the windows were murals until I processed the picture. There is so much going on here!
Makes me miss Paris already.

Corner of 53rd and Justine

Justine and 53rd, Chicago. The police box on the pole has some function regarding locating the origin of gun shots I believe.

Neath the Halo of a Street Lamp

Lyrics from Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkle)

For See It Sunday--Lamp

Flower

A twist on the theme since nothing is currently blooming in Chicago and I didn't want to dig up an old flower macro. This is a detail on a New York City building.

Circle on Bean

A flashback to summer--kids making a circle reflected in Chicago's Bean (Cloud Gate).
For See-It-Sunday, "Circle."

See It Sunday--Animal

Bison seen last year in Yellowstone.




OK, this is a lousy picture but he was so close to my car he could have left nose prints on the window. I was too busy trying to figure out if rental car insurance covers bison damage to get a better shot.

See It Sunday-door

Part of a new series of door photos I am working on--Not the usual picturesque doors but the run down decaying urban doors.

Flags

Flying over El Castillo in Puerto Rico.

See It Sunday--Child

Craters of the Moon National Park. What child could resist running down that slope?

Wind

I actually learned to wind surf many years ago but this guy was out of my league. It was amazingly windy that day. Taken at Lake Chelan, Washington in August 2007.

How Now Brown Cow?

Seen in Athens.

Something Old

 

An old stone building, known as a borie, found in Provence, France.

(Posted too late for the meme deadline--drat that time zone thing!)

See It Sunday--Social

It isn't just people that are social animals. From Washington State.

See It Sunday--Sky

The sky grins like a pumpkin but secretly is planning a major storm.

See It Sunday--Construction

View large for more detail.
OK so this is destruction but not construction but it will be construction some day. I'm fascinated by watching this building go down. It is a slow process--no wrecking ball or dynamite. It is like watching layers of a building peeled away one by one. It has a voyeuristic element, like watching one of those reality TV shows. Oh look, I can see the bathroom there. And so forth. I see this building rather frequently so there may be more posts as it comes down.

See It Sunday--Money

I went about the house collecting coins, both old and new, from our travels and otherwise. It is amazing what I could come up with. I threw in a couple of other things for good measure. Treat it like an I Spy--you'll be amazed at what is there. This photo is definitely best viewed large.

See It Sunday--Cable

I knew there had to be a reason I took this rather uninspiring picture. There I was, around a week ago, setting out for a hike in Stehekin, a small community two hours by boat from the nearest supermarket. This is a community that boasts one pay phone, no cell phone service, a two room school house with 14 students from K-8, and one paved road. The area is so remote that no one bothers to update the tabs on their license plates. Now this is major to me. In Chicago, if I have expired tabs for more than a day or two, I start accumulating tickets. The cars in Stehekin had tabs that expired in the 1990's. I almost took a photo or two of this but feared that some bureaucrat somewhere would decide that the one thing Stehekin was lacking was tickets. So I didn't.
Well, back to the picture. So here is this satellite dish in the middle of nowhere. I admit to ignorance--I'm assuming that the purpose was to deliver the internet access I was surprised to find at the lodge we stayed in. I guess it could have been television. I'd rather think it was internet. At least there are arguable reasons to be on the net--to conduct the few businesses that exist in Stehekin, so people can shop on-line instead of commuting by boat to Chelan, the nearest town, who knows maybe Stehekin even has a blogger. There also is some kind of phone service the Ranger Station has--I guess they are the local fire department and law enforcement. Maybe the ambulance corps too. So I wouldn't begrudge them a phone or two.
Nonetheless finding a dish hidden in the trees behind the lodge felt a bit like Eden had not just a snake but also cockroaches and mosquitoes. Which, come to think of it, it probably did.