Barrel Racing — Photo 90 — Project 365
More rodeo photos! Barrel racing is amazing to watch — a combination speed and finesse.
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Trick Riding — Photo 89 — Project 365
The rodeo provided a number of opportunities to take some great photos, so I
have a couple more to come after this. This one was of some of the trick riding.
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Wagon Driver — Photo 88 — Project 365
The parade provided lots of interesting sights. I got his photo of one of the
wagon drivers in the parade. I thought the outfit was rather timeless and I
liked the look on his face.
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Boy in the Yellow Shirt — Photo 87 — Project 365
This summer while I was waiting for a parade to start, so I started taking
pictures of some of the other people waiting around me. I ended up with this
neat picture of this boy. There’s just something about the look on his face…
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Temperature — Photo 86 — Project 365
I like how the background has faded away, and how the photo seems to make the
‘ordinary’ thermometer seem special.
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Parking Meter — Photo 85 — Project 365
So I found this parking meter one day exploring in France. Having studied a
little about parking I was fascinated. One of the goals of parking meters is to
encourage turnover to allow lots of people to visit the area. In France, you
sometimes run into timed parking (limited to 1 to 4 hours) with a similar goal.
The “old-school” way of doing that was to have a little disk you would put on
your dash, showing when you showed up (and by extension, when you could park
there till). It took me a while to figure out the system (they paint the lines
green for those spots) and then once I had it figured out, I never had a disk
with me. So when I spotted these machines, I thought they were genius! They
tell you right away how long you can park in the spot and how much time you
have left. As a “bonus,” it makes if far easier for the Meter Maid to see in a
hurry who has overstayed their welcome.
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We Will Remember Them — Photo 84 — Project 365
For Remembrance Day — Lest We Forget
They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
We will remember them.
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Golden Coat of Arms — Photo 83 — Project 365
My continuing adventures took me to London and to see the Queen! Actually, the
Queen was nowhere to be seen, but I did see Buckingham Palace and the Changing
of the Guards. On the square surrounding Buckingham Palace are gates
recognizing the different British colonies and on the gates of the Palace
itself sit the Arms of Britain itself. I thought the gold leaf was cool and it
provided a nice contrast against the grey-green iron of the rest of the gate.
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Moving Day — Photo 82 — Project 365
In France, many people (including me when I was there) live in low-rise apartment buildings. Typically, they are three to six stories tall with the bottom floor as retail (I lived above an insurance agent and a restaurant) and those above as residential. Many of the buildings are fairly old and so have narrow staircases and a small, if existent, elevator. Day-to-day, this isn’t too bad, but when you go to move in or out, the stairs turn into a nightmare. So the solution is to bring your own “moving elevator” on moving day! Such a moving elevator can be carried nicely on a trailer behind the moving truck and unfolds at your soon-to-be-former lodging. Point it at a window, which can be as large as your front door and is never screened, and the moving begins!
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William the Conqueror at Bayeux — Photo 81 — Project 365
The French love their comic books
(TinTin, et al.), a
tradition that may be ten centuries old! One of the oldest records in France is
the Bayeux Tapestry (dating to the 11th century), which records the
conquest of England by William the Conqueror, in comic book form of course! The
style is actually surprisingly similar to the newspaper comics, just without
the bars between scenes and the punchlines.
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