ktravula - a travelogue! » Photo http://www.ktravula.com reflections on the world Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:27:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 We Got Snow! http://www.ktravula.com/2011/12/we-got-snow/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.ktravula.com/2011/12/we-got-snow/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:23:36 +0000 Kola http://www.ktravula.com/?p=11871 Two days late still, but, yes! Winter is here.

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]]> http://www.ktravula.com/2011/12/we-got-snow/feed/ 3 Evening in Edwardsville http://www.ktravula.com/2011/10/evening-in-edwardsville/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.ktravula.com/2011/10/evening-in-edwardsville/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:47:49 +0000 Kola http://www.ktravula.com/?p=11616 I took these series of photos in April.

The flatness of the land here makes it easy to have some of the best sunset views I’ve ever seen. My current apartment also overlooks an expanse of westward land that makes it a very delightful place to be relaxing between five and six during summer and fall evenings.

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]]> http://www.ktravula.com/2011/10/evening-in-edwardsville/feed/ 0 Pollution http://www.ktravula.com/2011/07/pollution/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.ktravula.com/2011/07/pollution/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:57:20 +0000 Kola http://www.ktravula.com/?p=11054 I have just return from Alton, a little town twenty minutes away from my current location. The most dominant news item on the radio was the record heat waves that has got the whole country talking for the last ten days and will continue for the rest of the week. One other prominent feature of that trip was the enduring image of the Alton refineries purring “loud” smokes and fumes into the atmosphere.

I could only ponder the irony of it – on the one hand a deadly record heat all around the country occasioned by gas emissions and other environmental ills, and on the other the sad reality that things won’t change at once just because we wish it to. We can at least still take pictures from inside of air-conditioned vehicles.

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]]> http://www.ktravula.com/2011/07/pollution/feed/ 0 Sunset in Edwardsville http://www.ktravula.com/2011/06/sunset-in-edwardsville/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.ktravula.com/2011/06/sunset-in-edwardsville/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:27:15 +0000 Kola http://www.ktravula.com/?p=10706 Evenings like this make everything else worthwhile. Welcome June.

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]]> http://www.ktravula.com/2011/06/sunset-in-edwardsville/feed/ 2 An Old Theatre House http://www.ktravula.com/2011/04/an-old-theatre-house/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.ktravula.com/2011/04/an-old-theatre-house/#comments Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:17:37 +0000 Kola http://www.ktravula.com/?p=10545 Downtown Edwardsville, today.

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]]> http://www.ktravula.com/2011/04/an-old-theatre-house/feed/ 0 Outdoors http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/outdoors-2/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/outdoors-2/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:37:40 +0000 Kola http://www.ktravula.com/?p=10163 Pictured: Bronze bust of Tennessee Williams, American writer, on Euclid Avenue. Today in St. Louis.

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]]> http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/outdoors-2/feed/ 0 To Love http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/to-love/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/to-love/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:42:57 +0000 Kola http://www.ktravula.com/?p=10121 Campus, December 2009

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”

- Arundhati Roy.

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]]> http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/to-love/feed/ 2 Sunset http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/sunset/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/sunset/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:29:40 +0000 Kola http://www.ktravula.com/?p=10110 Glen Carbon, Halloween.

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]]> http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/sunset/feed/ 0 Serenity, Cougar Lake http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/serenity-cougar-lake/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.ktravula.com/2011/02/serenity-cougar-lake/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:12:54 +0000 Kola http://www.ktravula.com/?p=10105

“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, having no place in it.” – A Bend in the River.

(October 10, 2010)

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