Foggy Morning after Torontohenge

The fog descended on our house about 30 minutes ago.  The street light is barely visible, and where is the light in the window across the street?  I am witness to the alert in effect of 'near zero visibility in fog is expected or occurring.'  And a few minutes later, it seems to have passed through.   As I looked at the weather forecast, I discovered that this weekend had a remarkable occurrence. The sun's position in the sky lined up perfectly with some Toronto streets - this is called Torontohenge.  In Manhattan, it is called Manhattanhenge.   There's coverage of it here on the weather news network.   The article with the map of streets is HERE. Here's another blog - Dailyhive.com - what a great picture with everyone standing in the middle of King Street watching the sun and taking pictures.  There's even a picture of a person lying across the streetcar tracks taking a picture of cars coming towards him.  It is like Stonehenge with the magic of the reflections on the buildings and the street.  The next one is April 22/23, then August 19/20, and the final one for the year is October 23/24. And our pictures today come from Santa Fe.  The adobe colours show up everywhere, including the street curbs where peeling, crusted paint makes for colourful abstracts.  Our last image is the town's most famous Mexican eatery.  I took this picture well before 7:00am.  People were lined up for breakfast soon after.

How Not to Dress on Halloween

School rules have already established that no 'terrorists' or 'pocahotties' will be allowed. Educational institutions in Toronto are releasing the 'no' list of costumes.  You can read advice on 'how not to be a jerk' this Halloween.  Security will screen costumes at college parties. There are 14 offensive Halloween costumes in the goodhousekeeping.com article.  Included are eating disorder costume, adult flasher costume, homeless person, the twin towers in flames, black face, and don't forget the 'adult fat stripper piggyback costume' which is new for 2017. Good Housekeeping somehow omitted the 15th most offensive costume.  Huffington Post asks why would you dress up as Donald Trump - 'a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther for Halloween?' What would make the news outlets - CNN, CBC, Huffington Post - and more give so much advice? These news organizations cover the news and that includes the newsworthy offensive Halloween costumes every year.The offensive costumes make the news because they are worn by Hollywood celebrities.  All of the above have been worn by celebrities - terrorist, eskimo, black face, Cecil the Lion, deceased football coach, sexy Indian, sexy Japanese geisha, and so on.   Our pictures today are from Santa Fe's street curbs with their different colours for parking and stopping, etc.

Santa Fe Architecture

When we visited Santa Fe in September, it was in the middle of the summer festival. There was the festival of drinking (yes, drinking), then the festival of the pet parade and the royal family parade, and then the festival of the historical and hysterical, and more festivals to follow with parades and horses.

What I like most, though, is the lovely architecture. Here are a few shots of the adobe buildings and adobe colours everywhere.