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Family Album II

In honor of this week's industrially themed Sepia Saturday, I present the next page of my architectural family album. (The first one was back in March.)

Grandpa Orcas, standing tall and solitary 

The Tieton siblings, one with his fresh tattoos

The Admiral and his rambunctious son Delridge

The Longbeach family, who were a bit religious

The Lopezes, a tightly knit family

The Westport brothers

Mitchell, weathering

Tucked in the desert hills of central Oregon, the hamlet of Mitchell is eking out an existence....

Aurora Trackside

One building, many views.

Everett Walkabout

An impromptu afternoon exploring the byways of Everett, Washington.

Behind the parking lot

Back alley squares

Wormhole

Cameras in use

Alley diptych

The Equator

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OK, here's the last post of 2013 - Happy flaneurish New Year!

A spur-of-the-moment trip to Chehalis, Washington provided a chance to see this fabulous old drugstore wall.

Augustextures

Thai restaurant dragon scales, Renton WA

Container

Lighthouse sink, Mukilteo WA

Dog Day Loading Dock

Depth of summer in the nether parts of Eastern Washington.  Water towers lurking behind faded signage. Camouflaged graffiti. Mysterious meters. Pavement parched under a cobalt sky. Shadows of telephone wires trisecting weathered walls. Loading bays silent and windows boarded up. Weeds. The flicker of a single swallow fifty feet up.

Yakima WA

Toppenish WA

Toppenish WA

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

Something There Is That Does Not Love a Wall

But I actually am fond of walls, especially thoroughly weathered ones. This retaining wall near an Issaquah, Washington, shopping mall has caught my eye for some months now and I finally got a chance to get close to it, camera in hand, on a rare sunny day.

Silent Alarm

Maltby, Washington

The Patina Car

Historic train, Snoqualmie WA

San Diego Weather

Weathered Reticulation

Life-size fake giraffe, a passerby eye-catcher at a lawn statuary shop, Lake City, Washington

Signage of a Seaside Town

A few scenes from impoverished Grays Harbor County, Washington State. I've been going there on and off for forty-plus years, and little has changed, although the recession has clearly hurt a lot.


The ironically named New Hope Cafe, Westport



Regulations at the (empty) RV park, Westport



Hyperbolic adverts, Grayland



Main street renovation dreams, Westport



Remnants of a past boom, Aberdeen