Friday, October 5, 2007

McDonald's and Jacarandas

I have never in my life been excited about a McDonald's opening. Until today, when the Pretoria North McDonald's opened...






















(Really? Kuwait? Huh.)























The drive home--this is the street I live on, with the jacarandas all in bloom:

1 comment:

DMBY said...

Those jacarandas are beautiful. It's ok with me if you post twenty photos of them. :)
It's kind of strange how we can think of the evil McDonaldization of the world, but at the same time there is something so comforting and familiar about it (and a whole section of anthropologists devoted to studying that very dilemma!). Yeah, there are a lot of bad things about the corporation, but sometimes, I really like those chicken nuggets. Just saying.