Thematic Photographic - Shadow

Carmi at the blog Written, Inc. posts a weekly photo challenge. This week, the theme is "Shadows."
"Take a picture either of a shadow, or of something that evokes a shadow."  And share it at Written, Inc.

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This photo was taken in August, in the little beach town of Manhattan Beach. Isn't this a clever design for a bike rack?

This reminds me - there's something about the angle of the sun in Southern California. Now, in the height of winter, the sun comes in at an acute angle, even at noon.  It pierces in beneath the sun visor, it shines through the Venetian blinds directly onto the monitor, it flares your vision when you pass from shadow to sun.

My own little theory, goofy though it may be? I think the whole stereotype of movie stars wearing sunglasses arose from the fact that everybody in LA wears sunglasses, even in winter, to shelter against that low, piercing sunlight. Am I wrong?