Midcentury Cool

 

Three very cool artworks on the outside of a bank (now closed) in Sun City. I did some quick research but haven't been able to find any info on the artist.

Abandon

 

The desert is filled with abandoned buildings. Here are some in the Imperial Valley in California and in Arizona.

Shadow Play

This is the counterweight for a fire escape...

Geometry

Geisel Library with moon (and without!).

A Day at the Beach

Despite being busy with the usual nonsense plus Christmas stuff, I decided to just take myself to the beach today.

This is Cabrillo National Monument, breathtakingly beautiful, no? It was breathtakingly COLD and windy there today, which I rather enjoyed. I was down by the tidepools, but today was not a low tide so the pools were inaccessible.

The last two pics of are lighthouses (duh)--the first one is the first lighthouse built on Point Loma in 1855...it is up at the top of a bluff, which seemed like a good idea, except that fog and low clouds often obscured the light. The bottom pic is of the lighthouse used today, built in 1891 down at sea level.