The gutters of Provo, like gutters anywhere else, are for collecting excess water and for flushing away the sins of our conspicuous consumption -- or, in the above case, the unwanted harvest of Autumn.
I photograph the gutters because everyone else photographs the skies.
We should heed the words of Pliny the Elder, who wrote over twenty centuries ago: "Rome became great because she took care of her soldiers, and her gutters."
When I lived in Provo back in the 80's it was a city of irrigation rivulets.
Many of them are now paved over and defunct.
Provo once was greedy about its water, but no more.
We have to pick up after dogs, but not after smokers
The only difference between stagnant water and stagnant minds is that prejudices don't evaporate
Beauty will find a way to overcome utility
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