Lake under construction, FW Kent Park, IA

Another view onto the empty lake, past the orange safety barriers around construction points upon the shore as well.

Lake under construction, FW Kent Park, IA

A couple of months ago, we went to one of my favorite parks, a few towns over, to go and walk around the lake at its center. Only when we arrived, the lake wasn't there! It's an artificial dammed-stream reservoir lake, and I guess they were doing some sort of construction and refurbishment. So instead of the usual water, the boat ramp led down into a great flat bowl of greenery growing out of the lake-bottom mud.

DFW emergency training grounds

One of the things that I think is really neat are training grounds for emergency responders like fire crews. Every big airport has one of these and some, like this one at Dallas-Fort Worth, are practically amusement parts of interesting course and set-pieces: jets of different sizes, helicopters, towers, chemical tanks: they've got it all, and it's even more fun to see people running trials, hosing down bright flames of kerosene amongst gouts of thick black smoke.

University of Arizona Student Union, Tucson

More student union colonnade

University of Arizona Student Union, Tucson

Another University of Arizona student union colonnade

University of Arizona Student Union, Tucson

Back to the University of Arizona: a composition of sky and struts on one of the many porch-like regions of the student union.

Subdivision skeleton, near Dallas, TX

From ends back to beginnings: the skeleton of a growing new subdivision, budding from the edge of its parent.