After a walk to a coffee shop in Point Loma... past a striking rose bush, I wandered down to the pier at Ocean Beach.
A couple of days ago I walked around under the pier at Pacific Beach, a place in San Diego that always reminds me of Buddhist temples. You can find the pictures on the BLOG for Tuesday, June 29. I said on that day that the sea there most often eddies and swirls around pillars that wouldn’t be out of place in Todai-ji, the famous Buddhist shrine in Nara, Japan. If Crystal Pier is Buddhist-like, it must be said that another pier a couple of miles south and on the other side of the San Diego River is aesthetically consistent with Japanese temples, but not the Buddhist ones. The support structures at Ocean Beach Pier remind me of Jingu-torii at the entrance to Shinto shrines...like the massive one a few miles away from Todai-Ji at the Heian shrine in Kyoto... and in Ocean Beach the Pacific is often anything but peaceful. There are times when storms far out at sea push massive wild waves shore-ward...waves that crest over the top of the pier. If the support pilings were painted the brilliant vermillion of Jingu-torii, they would be perfect.
The following pictures haven't anything to do with anything. They are "found images" in the parking area of our condominium.