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I keep forgetting to mention that I have added another link to the side bar. "Past Pictures" is, suprise surprise, a link to pictures that have appeared previously in this blog. A blogallery if you will. (Yes, having come up with something pseudo-funny and clever, I have to milk it for every last drop. Or did I perhaps see it during one of my journeys through the blogosphere, and did it mull around for a while before popping back up?)
Anyway, the link is up. Now if traffic were to suddenly pick up I would be in trouble, but at current levels the server should hold up quite nicely.
I expect that it would be updated sporadically, if at all. For the moment though it is a nice look back at images from earliers posts, non-chronologically arranged.
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One of my favorite admonishments to tourists in cities (and often to city dwellers themselves) is: "Look up!" So much care and attention to fine detail has gone into creating the intricate facades of buildings, all beyond eye-level. Just about everyone who has visited London extensively could spend another equal amount of time, this time raising their eyes to the higher levels, and see a completely different city.
Looking through pictures of our recent Californian trip, I noticed some pictures that brought to mind a different piece of advice: "Look underfoot! There's a whole new world hiding there."
I grabbed these few pictures taken over the course of the past year to illustrate the point.