This past Sunday I took a ride up to the UTC area near La Jolla Village Drive. I took a stroll near the office buildings across the street from the mall. The group of buildings surrounded an unusual scene. Hidden inbetween these wanna-be skyscrapers are a few ponds interconnected by small waterfalls which probably make for a peaceful lunchtime getaway for office drones. I enjoyed a small break there and listened to the water rush from one pond to the next. It was quiet except for the water, which made me want to pee, but it was peaceful nonetheless. I did notice something kind of odd though. There were no coins anywhere in the water. Wasn't anyone tossing coins in and making wishes? This made me start thinking that maybe the people in this town did not require making wishes because if you lived and worked in this nice of an area then you didn't need to wish for anything else. That would be downright greedy. Maybe they were really tight with their money especially during this recession. But most likely there is a really good filtering system installed in these ponds that washes the money into a bin and the janitor pockets all the loose change.
I took this photo near a familiar house. I looked back and noticed that most of the trees had a stray growth that seemed to reach out to try and touch passersby. This scene reminded me of a medieval gauntlet where a person had to endure a corridor of pain from a series of combatants lined up alongside each other. The person would be badly beaten by the time they reached the end of the two lines.
