June 27, 2019

California Tower, at Balboa Park in San Diego.

The area here is so overgrown now, in the Southern California year-round growing season, that it's impossible to appreciate the beauty of these remains from the Panama California Exposition of 1915.

This water colors captures the spirit of the place, as I have experienced it in direct contact.
Balboa Bridges, Charles Arthur Fries, 1916
The cover of the guide book is a more photographic image, water-color as well but with a different sensibility.
 I much prefer the more impressionistic.

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