Monday, July 28, 2008

The traffic light fireworks

It was FREEZING cold this morning. Frost was not limited to grass in the park anymore. Roofs, random objects in the street and cars, it all had ice on it. It was cold at work too. I suspect that the thermostat for the airco/heater in my room is on the other side of a wall that was build to split the floor in half. We can't access it...

Luke was cold too and looked like this all day long. People in my office seem pretty comfortable wearing jackets and coats all day. It's like they're used to that here.

Tomato and bacon soup for lunch. Very nice.

After work it was PJ time. When I got to the corner Nicole was waiting for a green light across the street. Perfect timing.

We had to sit somewhere else again because our usual spot was taken by a big group of people. We had the 'pool table' view.

On our way home we drove past the old train station which is turned in to a casino partially. Wouldn't mind going for a look there some day.


The following photo's were taken from the car. They are like traffic light fireworks. Enjoy!

Oooohhhh!

Aaahhhhhh!

Aahh, ohhhh!

Aawwww!

OOOHHHHHHHH!

6 comments:

CRAIG said...

I love the traffic lights! Did you use a special setting or jusst snap away?

I tried the other night taking a photo out the windshield and it was just a mess of white specks and spots......I need to wash the car first I suppose.

Unknown said...

Overhere it i very hot and sweaty weather, some thunderstorms during the night, no sun today but high temps and very moist

Vincent said...

@ Craig: I used the "1.3 mega pixel shit camera without flash" setting. I betcha your camera doesn't have that one eh? lol I tried one and thought it looked cool and then I just snapped away. I guess with a good camera you'd need a diffusing filter or something?

@ The G: Humid weather sucks. I love the warmth but the humidity is often a killer. It's not toooo bad here during summer.

Gledwood said...

I once read a memoir set in Melbourne and was really surprised to discover it can actually get down to 0 degrees C there in winter..(!!)... wow!!

excellent photos btw... they remind me of being in a plastic-stinking old stylee VW Beetle in my 1970s childhood... and how freezing cold them cars were in midwinter..!!

Gledwood said...

... and how very expensive was an intercontinental telephone call from the UK to Australia... something like £2 a minute in today's money..!!... so exceedingly expensive in fact that Christmas aside and times like that people just did not do such transglobal calls... those aerogramme letters were the thing of the day: remember them? aerogrammes? dead funky, you could get birds of the world, railway trains, dead Kings and Queens... everything...

Anonymous said...

Oooooooooooooh... Aaaaaaaaaahhh...