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March 17, 2002

the night walk

I began the afternoon innocently checking out my web page's stats, to see if my recent inactivity had slowed down the traffic. That led me to some stranger's web logs, where I found they had linked my site to theirs. I spent a good while reading people's sites that are way more intricate and robust than mine (oh how I hate to use that word "robust" when describing anything other than perhaps coffee, but well, there it is), people who seem to live much more interesting lives and take way more photos than I do. I wondered how they found my site too. I'm sure someone somewhere knows the friend of a friend of a brother of a coworker or something. It can't just be pure web-connectedness.

So after feeling a bit out done, I decided to get off my but and take a long walk before it got dark, and take my camera along to see what I could do. These are some of the snaps I took tonight. Click on the pictures for a bigger view.

I still can't get used to the fact even though daylight savings time hasn’t happened yet, it doesn't get dark here until maybe 7pm now. There is this eerie glow that hovers in the early evening sky.

glowing sky

It rained early today, rather than later in the evening like it usually does. Not a day doesn’t go by without some sort of damp.

The ice rink behind the museum seems to be on its last legs, melting away

I took the dog and headed east, through the Rijksmuseum

I love that you can ride your bike right into the middle of the Rijksmuseum, through this echoic corridor

I ended up in a part of town that was crammed with antique stores. I took a few photos of the creepy dolls in a storefront.

And of course, the obligatory dog picture

I am starting to understand why I like to take photos. Just looking though a lens, makes everything sharper, makes the ordinary something more than it is. At least for me.

Posted by shannon at March 17, 2002 11:59 PM

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