Seven Plots

The local community garden is just about ready for the year's first planting. I love the elements of these spaces before they get populated by flowers and vegetables. I gave these a painterly treatment to emphasize the blocks of color, texture, and shape. Otherwise they run the danger of looking like a bunch of snapshots of plywood and dirt, bricks and plastic.

Pay no attention to the man behind the plywood

Spotted this intriguing shot while walking across Portland's Steel Bridge. Captions, anyone?

Fields Notes of a Square Spotter

Always gladdened by a splotch of color on grey pavement, I spotted these gaudy quadrilaterals of an evening in downtown Portland, Oregon. Slightly fotoshopped for a painterly patina, just because.

The hatch

Green for go 

Distressed dumpster

The Tides of March

Slightly late for St. Patrick but here's a little study in green.

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Panes

At the old Sand Point Way Naval Air Station, now Magnuson Park, in Seattle.

The rectangles we leave

Westport, Washington, giving new meaning to "the Left Coast."

Garage Doors: Let's Be L7

Who you calling a square?


These little guys are subtle puppies. You might have to click to enlarge this picture for a good glimpse of the quarry.



Much the same except they're crawling up the side of the door rather than scuttling along the bottom. (Go Air America!)



I like this square-within-a-square motif. Bold, and yet...



You might do a double-take and take this for a star at first, but of course it's "four-square."



No mistaking this one -- solid, Jack!

Garage Doors: Chummy Quadrilaterals

A few examples of squares hooking up with rectangles for some driveway do-si-do.


OK, that's cool.


Not as busy, but twice the fun.


Yike, they're multiplying!

Garage Doors: Rectilinear Distinction

There are a host of just plain rectangles in Garageworld, but I like rare variations such as these.


Cells floating proudly with their skinny nuclei.



Reticent rectangles in chains.



Sticking close together for safety.



Offset randomly or by painstaking design?



Optically messing with your head - is this cruciform design just a big rectangle laid over a couple of long ones, or are those four petals surrounding it?



I don't know what this one is trying to tell me.