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As you can imagine, I took a ton of photos, many of the vegetation and architectural decoration. I fell in love with all the trees, and the pleasing contrast between familiar exotics such as citrus, palm and olive trees, familiar deciduous trees like sweetgum and sycamore, and strange and wonderful ones I have yet to identify. Unfortunately, I didn ( Read more... )

So I checked off 14 of 22 items on my weekend to-do list, a few of which could still be revisited. Feeling slightly frazzled from the unusual burst of organization and productivity ( Read more... )

When I disembarked in 30th St. Station earlier today, I was shocked to see a mini version of the winding queue for baggage inspection, with white-shirted TSA guards milling the empty lanes. I guess it can be argued that it is inevitable, what what kind of world do we live in that it is inevitable ( Read more... )