Obligatory airplane window wing shot

I don't always peer out the window to survey North America, but when I do, it's pretty great. Even though it comes at the end of a long day of sequential travel: subway to train to airplane, across the ocean, to other airplane, to bus...

This pause to look at the territory, criss-crossed by roads and gently blanketed by light clouds, is nice.

This post's theme word is predial or praedial, "of or relating to land, farming, etc." The praedial layout of the inter-city area is visible to the naked eye.

Tree interrupts skyline

The Paris skyline is dramatic and distinctive. A certain density of unique monuments, and an enforced homogeny throughout the rest of the city, means that Paris has a certain "look". Fantastic lighting only enhances this.

The one-way streets fronted by white stone buildings contribute to this look, and of course for the Christmas season each neighborhood hangs lights and decorations. (I think this is to give some visual variety for the winter season, in lieu of snow which almost never happens.)

But then... the skyline is occasionally broken by what I can only describe as a visual non sequitur.

This post's theme word is vegete, "lively, active, vigorous." The vegete holiday decorations may have gone too far.