nighthawks
I love the energy of big cities. Sometimes there's so much it spills over into the early hours of the morning. On a trip to Chicago last weekend we saw Hopper's evocative depiction of that straggling energy - when you just don't want to follow everyone else home to call it a night - in his famous Nighthawks.
I know the feeling, it reminds me of visits to Don Quixote. Not the Don Quixote - Cafe Don Quixote on the Kingsway in London.
Sometimes the 4am conversation at Cafe Don Quixote was reminiscent of the Spanish Knight; other times it was as lonely as Hopper's nocturnal scene. But there was always people-watching those other stragglers waiting at the bus stop opposite the cafe, and the warm tea always provided just enough energy to survive the night bus home.
Labels: Fun, Photography
This work by James D.A. Millington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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