I have always liked pictures of rocks and pebbles. There’s something subtly beautiful about the slight variations in color and the mildly contrasting veins that run through the stones. I’ve seen many photos of pebble beaches, and Mac OS ships with a number of desktop images, one of which is simply called “rocks” (I have never been tempted to use it because it is slightly out of focus, too much not to be annoying, but not enough to be intentional). For a while now, I’ve been wondering where I could take a shot of rocks for this blog when it hit me: the outside of the Amadeus cafeteria is lined with a thin border of rocks to allow rain water to get to the drain pipes. They are not fancy rocks, mind you, just ordinary stones, but they were there, so I snapped them at lunchtime.