2018: Dribs and Drabstracts

End of the year once more, and here are a few odd ones out from 2018.

Parallelogram, Cannon Beach OR

Five Logs, Christiansen Nursery, Mt. Vernon WA

Loading Dock, Cottage Grove OR

Unilluminated, Cottage Grove

Final Frontier, Eugene OR

What Makes It Tick, LaConner WA

Lines, Pike Place Market, Seattle WA

Diptych, Bellevue WA

Three Nines, Renton WA

Nucleus, Rockaway OR

Burning of the Houses of Parliament, Juan Ferry, WA

Rorshach, Seaside OR

Landscape with Truck, Seattle WA

Veiled, Sky Nursery, Lynnwood WA

Evolution, Tacoma WA

To the Bone, Tacoma Maritime Museum, WA

Landscape (with truck)

Randomeanderings

We have been travelling hither and yon this September...

Des Moines WA

Renton WA

Snoqualmie Pass WA

La Conner WA

Seattle WA

Edison WA

Promenade

Coulon Park, Renton WA

Beam

Meanwhile, under the Cedar River bridge in Renton...

Inside and Out

Finally the sun came out and so off I went to the south county in search of inspiration.

Coming Soon, Renton WA

Vacant, Kent WA

Antiques, Kent WA

Black magic, Kent WA

Three Squares Two Ways

Still life captured at an antiques store and espresso shop in Renton, Washington.

And a Half

Renton, WA

Inside Outside

The traveling "Bodies" show is in Seattle. Meanwhile, an old Renton storefront has been removed from between two others, revealing the building's bones and organs.

Garage Doors: Beaten by the Target

Just when you thought it was safe to back to this blog, I put up a bunch more garage doors, and a bewildering post title referring to a Robert Pollard song.

Targets. Bullseyes. Nested rectangles. Call them what you will, they're ubiquitous.


The standard breed.




The rippled mongrel.




The rare nested peephole.



The double-whammy multicolored varietal. Note the scrawled house number.



The freak of nature.

Garage Doors: The Joy of Paint

Aside from performing design magic with little strips of wood, you can go crazy with paint.


Some might place windows in this position, but these folks have used paint. If you blow this up, you'll also notice the subtle diamond shape-within-a-shape.



Here are some artfully placed rectangles -- painted brown!



Here the paint is applied -- asymmetrically of course -- to the natural paneling of the door.



Hey, you can also do it with squares!



Boy howdy, can you!



Or you can just freak out and do a real painting.

Garage Doors: The Bevel Made Me Do It

Nothing like beveled corners to add snazz and pizzazz.


Not only beveled but asymmetrical!



Or if you prefer, right-handed. (What's up with the faux clerestory effect?)



The TV-screen look.





This one looks like it's about to swallow the car.



Here they got just a tad carried away and continued the motif on to the front door.



In case you missed it, here's one from my earlier "bullseye" post.