Tuesday, June 19, 2007
facades
I am not sure if I ever explained why "The Crane and the Cathedral"...it just referred to the construction they were doing on the cathedral when we first got here. And, in retrospect, I should have been taking photos of all the cranes and Cathedrals I've seen this year. From the Sagrada Familia to the smallest village, there is an amazing amount of development in this part of the world. Maybe in all parts. This weekend we were in Salou, just south of here, where the English have come en masse for the beach. There are dozens of cranes along the landscape, looks like Berlin when the wall came down. While this photo isn't of construction, it's something you see often here, a facade of a building where you can still see each individual room, bathroom, etc. It's right on the corner where I turn to go to the library, and at the beginning I was afraid to remember the street by this, since I figured it would be gone soon. But 9 months later, it's still there.
At any rate, there are new cranes galore right outside my office, and I am writing this to commit myself to doing my crane and cathedral photo-essay in the next month. So there.
¶ 2:02 PM 
I am not sure if I ever explained why "The Crane and the Cathedral"...it just referred to the construction they were doing on the cathedral when we first got here. And, in retrospect, I should have been taking photos of all the cranes and Cathedrals I've seen this year. From the Sagrada Familia to the smallest village, there is an amazing amount of development in this part of the world. Maybe in all parts. This weekend we were in Salou, just south of here, where the English have come en masse for the beach. There are dozens of cranes along the landscape, looks like Berlin when the wall came down. While this photo isn't of construction, it's something you see often here, a facade of a building where you can still see each individual room, bathroom, etc. It's right on the corner where I turn to go to the library, and at the beginning I was afraid to remember the street by this, since I figured it would be gone soon. But 9 months later, it's still there.
At any rate, there are new cranes galore right outside my office, and I am writing this to commit myself to doing my crane and cathedral photo-essay in the next month. So there.
¶ 2:02 PM
