THE ART OF IRON

With buildings it adds to the aesthetics with the use of iron (in my opinion).

This gate opens up to a shopping center in Old Town San Diego.

Wish I was here - shopping of course -
or blogging more frequent(!)

instead of unpacking boxes at my new house.

Behind the benches around the waterlilly pond,
leading up to the botanical building in Bablboa Park,
there is this cheerful pattern in this iron fence.

This is a detail, taken side ways.

These trees are at the edge, positioned in a half circle,
surrounding the open air theater in Balboa Park.
The round iron lace pattern at the foot of the tree
is a work of art.

This gate opens and closes the patio of the youth hostel
we were staying, when visiting Beijing.
Although the youth hostel was modern according to
Western standards (a big breakfast was buffet style,
and they had even Italian pasta dishes and
western sandwiches for lunch),
the street where it was on,
was unpaved
and local people who lived in tiny houses around,
I saw in their pyamas at night going
to brush their teeth in the community bath house,
while each room in the the youth hostel
had its own bath room.
Life is not fair, is it?