congestion?

One of the drawbacks to living in a major city is the lack of open space. Buildings and streets take up most of the space (all but the few acres of parks that cities thankfully spare), hindering, among other things, the view. One thing I love about many places I've visited in my life were open fields or overhanging cliffs where I could sit and watch the sunset (or rise, if I were so ambitious as to wake up early).

The other day I got off of work about an hour before sunset, so I decided to do the ol' ride-my-bike-to-a-cool-place-and-watch-the-sunset. The place I had in my mind, a field, turned out to be the worst possible idea. There were buildings all over blocking my view of the westward sky. I was fortunate, however, to have one of those buildings be a parking garage. So I rode up six stories of steady incline to the top where I took a new kind of sunset picture: the kind that includes the building, as opposed to avioding them. I thought this building looked so cool as it reflected the sun. If you have bad vision you might even look at it and think that the building is all clear (and wouldn't that be cool if it were?). So now I just need to find the tallest parking garage in the city and ride up it for my next photographic outing. I'll be a happy rick.

(can you see downtown back there?)