Metaphor

Remembering Updike

For and from fans of the late John Updike, the New Yorker has posted these tributes

Remembering Updike

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Macau Scenes

Restored colonial-style buildings.

Tricycle rickshaws outside the casinos.

New graffiti against a backdrop of old, old houses.

A view of the city from the commanding heights of Monte fort, which today houses the museum.

Three young people keeping in step along a narrow street.

Tourists on the steps leading up to the ruined facade of St Paul's church,
the iconic symbol of the old Portuguese city.

A granite doorway off the Rua da Felicidade, the former red-light district.

Red light district? Red paint, naturally.

A centuries-old house cheek-by-jowl beside a new apartment building.

Waiting for Daughter

The photos today depict a virtue which is in keeping with the
underlying theme of this blog, and which ought to be
prized a good deal more in this frantic society of ours.

Patience at an Airport

Quirky

San Francisco is a city of world-famous museums, bridges, stately Victorian houses, and other architectural marvels. But it is also capable of some rather unusual structures, like this one. I don't know the name of it, but it is located on the southeastern slope of Telegraph Hill. This photo was taken from the corner of Broadway and Stockton in Chinatown.

Obviously too tiny to be an apartment building, as each floor seems about the size of a small room, it nevertheless has large balconies commanding what must be superlative views of the Bay, the skyscrapers of the financial district, the southern part of the City and the bridges.

Assuming the bedroom is on the top level, then the bathroom and kitchen might be on the middle level, and the living room on the lower one. I think it must be a very interesting house to visit. I wonder if the blue dome houses an observatory, or the machinery for a small elevator.

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