Landscape with Painted Chair

Ocean moonrise through overhanging branches

Segments

Oceania

Boat Landscapes

From an afternoon at the Foss Maritime Museum in Tacoma, WA.

The Dock of the Bay

Weathered fishing dock in Wheeler, Oregon

Things That Make You Go "Hmm"

Concrete box of mystery, Lake Chelan, WA 2011.

A careful reading reveals the proto-sandcastle on the shore as well as the intriguing curve of floats demarking the swim area.

(Why is there a word ["cube," obviously] for a three-dimensional square but not one for the equally common three-dimensional rectangle? [I could say "rectangular parallpiped" but it's nowhere as succinct, now is it?])

Backroads

A few notable walls from a Veterans' Day roadtrip through the back of beyond, Oregon.

Study in asymmetry, Junction City

Harrisburg

Weathering, Halsey

Peace and Love, Halsey

Wall of Red

Quick trip to Yakima, Washington, where 75% of the nation's hops come from. Who knew?

Island Patina

It's been a slow summer so I continue to mine my Lopez Island shots.

At the floating bookstore

Where something was

At the swap meet

The cistern

Theme Thursday: Reason

Reason

Said, Pull her up a bit will you, Mac, I want to unload there.
Said, Pull her up my rear end, first come first served.
Said, give her the gun, Bud, he needs a taste of his own bumper.
Then the usher came out and got into the act:

Said, Pull her up, pull her up a bit, we need this space, sir.
Said, For God's sake, is this still a free country or what?
You go back and take care of Gary Cooper's horse
And leave me handle my own car.

Saw them unloading the lame old lady,
Ducked out under the wheel and gave her an elbow.
Said, All you needed to do was just explain;
Reason, Reason is my middle name.

--Josephine Miles

Startup

Tooled around the town of Startup, Washington today. Among other delights were a number of ancient autos in various states of abstraction.


Studebaker diptych in red



Tour bus, autumn of its years



Mercury, dreaming of the sky



'32 Ford, alla rustica

Art by Accident

Another weekend, another car show, thanks to my teen son. But rather than show the glitzy rods, here are some esthetically decaying classics from here and there.