There was sliver of the moon over the ramada at Mission Garden in Tucson.
The spiny “branches” across the top of the roof come from the ocotillo plant. You can see what they look like growing in the desert in the photo below.
Runner up:
I loved colors and shading in this handpainted parasol at Phoenix Comicon!
Side note: I wasn’t sure how widely the word “ramada” was used outside the Southwestern U.S. for describing the type of covering supported by posts you see over picnic tables etc., like a roof without walls. In the U.K., I thought they might call this a “shelter.” My Twitter poll on the topic only received a few votes – all in favor of ramada – but my friend Kelli did mention that she thinks of a ramada as made of brick and of this as a “pergola”.
Perhaps the thing itself is just more common here in the Southwest, where you need shade more than protection from rain or snow and desert trees may be too sparse to provide it.
Anyway, if you use a word besides ramada, the language geek in me would love to know!
I think here we’d call that a pergola or even a ‘wooden marquee’ – I’ve never heard of ramada in this context! I knew I’d heard that somewhere though and recall now that there’s a chain of hotels here called Ramada: probably the only use of the word I’ve heard! I see others are mentioning the hotel too…. I see the dictionary says it means an arbour or porch, from Spanish: I wonder if it’s very regional usage in the US then…
Yes I adore words I did Linguistics as my degree many years ago, loved it
I have never heard “wooden marquee!” I studied linguistics too! I think “ramada” is regional, and I’m getting geeky again this week: https://www.travelcraftjournal.com/ramada-part-2/
I didn’t know the word Ramada, but this now makes me wonder if that’s where the name of the hotel chain comes from? I would have called that a shelter or a pavilion.
I totally forgot about the word “pavilion!”
We say pergola over here in Australia, but I love ramada as well!
Interesting! Okay…another point for pergola. :)
Ha! I’m so dumb. I see Ramada and only think about the hotel! But this definitely eye opening for me. ;)
Not dumb at all! You live where it snows, so the word probably doesn’t come up as often.
I say pergola too, but I love ramada! I was confused at first, thinking of the hotel. ;) Oh, WOW, I am in love with that parasol. Got a thing for octopuses now, and that is gorgeous. Also love how the spiny branches of that plant over the ramada look vaguely critterlike.
Yes, they do kind of look like spiny legs or tentacles! “Ramada” is kind of a weird name for a hotel chain, isn’t it? I wonder how they came up with that.