





These appear to be a popular local plant. They’re beautiful. Expect to see lots more of the local flora over the coming weeks which may look quotidian to Westerners but are exotic to me.

After the parade today, we walked down to the Gaslamp District and then back along Martin Luther King Promenade where I took more pictures of tablets on the ground with MLK quotations I thought were particularly apt for the era beginning today.
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If we want to make America great again, we might try to manifest Martin Luther King Jr’s words, engraved here along San Diego’s Martin Luther King Promenade.


400 bad request.


Bas reliefs on either side of the door of what looks like a luxury apartment building that must have been renovated in an old stable or carriage house.








Is this a liminal space? It’s definitely in-between (the street and the subway platform). The blacked-out former advertising hoardings give it an abandoned air.



