Tag: photography

October Squares | Day Fourteen

This month Becky (the Queen of Squares) has challenged us to find lines. In Squares naturally. That is the only proper ‘rule’. I have been dipping into the archives for this one, as well as finding local lines.

Longitude and Latitude

In partnership with the Natural History Museum, the Cool Globes San Diego exhibit was displayed in and around Balboa Park, the San Diego Port, Seaport Village and the Embarcadero Marina Park from October 2008-March 2009.  Various artists created globes about Climate Change.

Artist: Nina Weiss ‘Tall Grass’

“Converting traditional lawn into prairie is an attractive landscaping solution that significantly reduces household energy consumption; there is no need to mow, irrigate, or apply petroleum-based fertilisers. As leaves release oxygen into the air, dense root systems of prairie capture carbon, a phenomenon known as “carbon sequestration” that mitigates global warming…

Doesn’t that make you want to stop mowing and start growing?”

October Squares | Day 14

October Squares | Day Ten

This month Becky (the Queen of Squares) has challenged us to find lines. In Squares naturally. That is the only proper ‘rule’. I have been dipping into the archives for this one, as well as finding local lines.

county lines

There has been much in the news recently about so-called ‘county lines‘ when drug gangs from big cities expand their operations to smaller towns, often using violence to drive out local dealers and exploiting children and vulnerable people to sell drugs. These dealers will use dedicated mobile phone lines, known as ‘deal lines‘, to take orders from drug users.

October Squares | Day Ten