Once Upon a Time in the Skagit Valley

18-wheel abstracts

One advantage about being a passenger instead of the driver (aside from being able to nap) is the ability to snap photos while in motion.
Here are some abstract "canvases" that we passed one afternoon.

Landscape (with truck)

Salvation Mountain, CA

Rush hour, 45th Parallel

Still lifes / Portraits: P-town food trucks

Portland rush hour mandala

Crossing the Columbia behind a tanker truck, watching the girders kaleidoscopically morph in the polished steel...

Road and sky

Thorp, WA

Thorp, WA

Kittitas, WA

Thorp, WA

Umptanum Ridge, WA

Commute

Rush hour, Springfield OR

The Green and the Red

Ghosts of trucks past on Lopez Island, rusting and enjoying the big sleep while the foliage takes over.

The Frame

I love the ready-made still lifes that open trucks provide.

Behind the hardware store, Bellevue WA

Farmer's Market, Bellevue WA

Here's an earlier one.

Food Mobility

It's Theme Thursday once again! Here are a few shots from my last trip to England, and a rimshot at the end.


York



Liverpool




Warwick




Maltby, Washington

Rolling Canvases

Sitting in the passenger seat for hours along Interstate 5, I began to see everything as fair game for art.

Try clicking to enlarge and staring at each one for 60 seconds...