We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Topic: Light and Shadow
We're Not in Kansas Anymore |
Thursday, November 30, 2006 elsewhere - Storms that roared through the Northwest and Rockies earlier in the week blew into the southern Plains and Midwest on Thursday, bringing the first significant ice and snow of the season. A man was killed in a crash on an icy Oklahoma road.
The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings from Texas to Illinois for Thursday and in some northern areas through noon Friday. Some parts of eastern Kansas were forecast to get up to 12 inches of snow, while others braced for more than an inch of ice.
Thursday, November 30, 2006, Santa Monica, California, late afternoon -
![Bicyclist, Palisades Park, Santa Monica](113006_biker01a.jpg)
![The beach, from Palisades Park, Santa Monica](113006_sand01.jpg)
![The beach, from Palisades Park, Santa Monica](113006_sand02a.jpg)
![Pampas grass and rockets, Palisades Park, Santa Monica](113006_bot02a.jpg)
The Joy of War
Topic: Social Commentary
The façade above the military surplus store on Hollywood Boulevard - make of it what you will. Think "blond bombshell" or something. ![The bomb lady on Hollywood Boulevard](112906_bomblady01.jpg)
![The bomb lady on Hollywood Boulevard](112906_bomblady00.jpg)
No One Can Outrun Their Destiny
Topic: Light and Shadow
No One Can Outrun Their Destiny |
Late light on the apocalyptic billboards on the Sunset Strip, at Sunset Plaza - late afternoon, Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - ![Mel Gibson billboard, Sunset Plaza, West Hollywood](112806_mel00.jpg)
![Chanel billboard, Sunset Plaza, West Hollywood](112806_bbchanel00.jpg)
![Guess billboard, Sunset Plaza, West Hollywood](112806_bbguess01.jpg)
![Billboards, Sunset Plaza, West Hollywood](112806_melplus00.jpg)
All Clean
Topic: Light and Shadow
Monday, November 27, 2006 - light rain in the middle of the night, lasting through the early morning, then things cleared out. Los Angeles is all clean. In order - looking north from Mulholland Drive, the city from high over Hollywood, the sun setting over the Hollywood Hills, and the half-moon. ![The view north from Mulholland Drive, at the Universal City overlook](112706_mtns01.jpg)
![Los Angeles as seen from the Hollywood overlook on Mulholland Drive](112706_city01.jpg)
![The sun setting over the Hollywood Hills](112706_sunset02.jpg)
![Half-moon over Hollywood](112706_moon01.jpg)
Political Thought
Topic: Social Commentary
America today… ![Nicholas Mills, The Triumph of Meanness, with ceramic cat](112606_Tof-M01.jpg)