I wasn’t really intending to look for locks the other day, but just happened to notice a couple of odd things about them around town.

The first thing I saw was the oddity of seeing a man locking the door in the first photo below. Of course, that’s the Friendly Tourist — and not the local man whose door it was — posing to illustrate what was odd about this lock:

Lock of the Giant? (with the Friendly Tourist), Verona

I mean, look how high that lock is. Verona really is the land of the giants, I guess. I mean, at my (lack of) height, I could never live in that place, since I’d never be able to reach that lock.

The second odd thing about locks was stumbling upon an unexpected area for some of those Locks of Love that are so ubiquitous in European cities these days. Normally one spies these locks on a bridge, but in the photo below they are on a fence — that serves no obvious purpose — along one part of the Adige River here in Verona:

Locks along the Adige, Verona

The fence was quite long, and I decided to attempt a “sweep panorama” shot with my cell phone to try to capture the length of it. The results were not exactly an advertisement for the sweep panorama algorithm on my cell phone, though since it (seemingly) should have been fairly straightforward to piece together the portions of the fence.   But it clearly wasn’t:

A Sweep through the Locks of Love

Further, if we take a look at just the righthand portion of that photo,  we can see that it incorrectly shows a couple of the same locks twice:

“Everlasting” Locks of Love

Now perhaps that is an interesting way to represent the “everlasting” nature of the love the locks are supposed to represent, but showing them in a repeating fashion?

Well, perhaps. But it is at least an interesting effect nonetheless.