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Uninhabited islands seem a trope, right?   What would you bring to, what book would be your only reading material on, what album would be the only thing you listened to for the rest of your life on , who would you want to be trapped with on, etc.    The Galapágos are famously unpeopled.  Endemic species [...]

I can’t let this photo out into the wild interweb without my now-traditional gripe. A tiny tourist town in Ecuador has a better recycling system than the south side of Chicago does. Or at least has a recycling system. Which we do not, despite the heavy ad campaign that Daley has put on. Daley! Your [...]

Baltra once had quite a US army presence. To secure the Panama Canal, of course. Now it’s where the main airport in the Galápagos islands is situated. I’m not entirely sure if this soccer field is a holdover. It’s certainly not the most attractive photo I’ve ever taken, but look at this. It certainly isn’t [...]

With only a little time in Miami and only a little knowledge of the town, I cabbed it right over to South Beach. What is it about this leaf? It’s trimmed, actually, and projecting about six inches out of a hedge that is equally well trimmed. Something there about order, and systems of organization.

This is cheating, maybe. Another image from the same place as the one before. There’s a cache of signs now nearly in the same place that the great orange diamond was in the previous image. They’re scraped up, piled up, and provide for any directive need. “Keep Left” is below “Keep Right” but splayed out [...]

An old photo: The University under construction and light snow. The place has no shortage of crossing guards, blocked off buildings, rerouted walkways and so forth. Plants are going in, grass is going down, paths are going concrete and a new library, here, is descending into the ground. Maintenance requires novelty.