No Parking

I frequently walk by this sign, and today I realized I liked the combination of it and the (dying) vines growing up the side of the telephone pole it's attached to.

Technicolor Trees

I believe these are the same ornamental pear trees that I so detest in the springtime (because of their awful odor when in bloom). It looks like they're good for something after all!

Imposing

I initially started on this dump truck because of its rather bright magenta tailgate, but decided to play with point of view as well. I was inspired by some photos I saw recently taken with wide-angle (and extreme wide-angle) lenses. I'll have to play with this concept more once I get a wider lens myself!

Bell Tower

I think I may be taking a lot more photos at night, now that daylight savings time has ended. This is the BYU bell tower lit up at night. It started sounding as I was getting set up, which was mildly startling at that short distance!

Traffic

I took this photo about 12 minutes before an event in the Marriott Center; I assume that a large portion of the traffic was either people going to the Marriott, or heading home to watch from there.

Side note: a girl crossed the street in front of the camera while I had the shutter open, but (as I'd expected), she didn't show up at all, due to the low light levels (and long exposure of 91 seconds).

Hazel Plays the Piano

This evening Hazel briefly had fun with the higher octaves of the piano. She seemed to have considerably more fun saying "Tickle, tickle, tickle!" as she ran at people and tickled them. (Alas, it is hard to take pictures while being tickled, especially by someone as cute as Hazel.)

Trenching

This is a trench that was dug to lay electrical lines for a large apartment complex that's in the early stages of being built. Apparently the conduit gets covered by (or encased in) concrete before the rest of the trench gets filled in. (The bright orange blur in the foreground is plastic mesh warning people away from the trench.)