Friday, June 04, 2010

Side of a Mountain

4 comments:

  1. Hi Rick, This is very exotic, and including the cone really defines the rest of it in terms of scale and color. thanks, sp

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  2. Hi Sussah,
    This is actually a pretty typical "side of the mountain" scene in Japan. Because of earthquakes, landslides after typhoons, etc., pretty much every mountain, riverbank, beach, etc. has been re-inforced with concrete. We get pounded with this crap repeatedly, every year. Hardly anyone dies or gets hurt. Foreigners like me complain about the ugly scenery, but a day after Katrina Miyazaki was creamed by a huge typhoon--there was some damage and only a few lives lost. These things are *routine* here. Katrina/New Orleans involved a special set of circumstances, of course, but probably would never happen here.
    Having said that, the scenery here kinda sucks sometimes!
    As for "exotic," well, I notice what I notice!
    ;-)

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  3. I like the "echo" between the cone and...whatever that big blackish shape is...a stain?

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  4. A.D.,
    The shape is wetness from water running out of a small pipe at the top. It may be a permanent stain. The concrete re-inforces the mountainside, and there are a lot of pipes running (presumably) from the top of the mountain and out the side to help avoid landslides after typhoons/heavy rain.

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