Friday, 26 August 2016
I find this way of using tile scraps appealing. Also, the many grout/mortar separations mean it won’t get as slippery as a mostly-tile surface.
On the same property, the lettering of the name of the apartment complex is more formal tile-work.
Friday, 12 August 2016
I saw this out of the corner of my eye and had to back up to make sure what I was seeing. Yup, contact paper that looks like a brick wall. I agree with the idea; this is better than a grey metal box, especially for a spot you see near-daily—plus this is a big utility box!
This stump is losing its battle with the fungi. Their function in the wild is as part of the army of living things that breaks down dead things. I’m no specialist, but I counted five visually different fungi in the process of turning this oak into dust.
Sunday, 3 July 2016
Square steel lighthouse…built in 1915, automated in 1968 (if I remember correctly). Seagulls love it.
And on the dunes on the way back, we saw these bladder campion blooms, incongruous on their skinny stems.
Friday, 1 July 2016
Sign spotted in random post-boughten-breakfast stroll: Wallace Morley Bicycle Hospital. Charming.
Our peonies are fast-fading; I had hoped we’d catch them closer to their prime. A somethingorother butterfly adds aesthetics. However, the peonies down by the Stone House are perfect and gigantic. Latitudinal variation? 😉
Saturday, 25 June 2016
It’s about the flashing.
Photo is from the other day because it’s record-breaking hot here and I have a case of the summer-crud. No temperature, so I’m only slow and cough-sniffly. Only, haha.
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
I was separated from this display by the windows of the shop; it was closed and the flowers highlighted by a chandelier serving as a security light. Class.
Here the separator is the white picket fence…protecting a small stand of maize that has survived marauding raccoons, cats, rats, and opossums.
The separator here isn’t visible. The pot is about four feet above the sidewalk in a little garden patio-tableau with a table and chairs; the pot sports a good reflection of the overcast sky. So the subtle separator is the retaining wall for the patio.
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Eye-catching golden glow from security lights….
Height-challenged orange-cone soldier lineup….
These photos were taken about two minutes apart, although they don’t look that way…in the dark vs in the open street.
Tuesday, 7 June 2016
I said goodbye to the lilacs for this year…well, to the blooms. I am leaving them to MaNachur.
We crossed the bridge to troll-land. Thankfully, we didn’t drive straight into a wave of summer heat.
We stopped for what you do at a rest stop…stretch legs and toilet activities. Here’s a euphemism for the same for our canine companions.
After quite some time, we drove by the country mosque—which is overlooking a construction zone at present.
Our next distinctive architectural find: sugar silos.
And we saw some glorious day-end light.
Friday, 3 June 2016
Backlit photo number one: an apple tree this morning.
Here’s a high bridge view…freighter entering locks. Nope, didn’t look up the name. Lame me.
Here’s proof we left the country to visit our northern neighbor for a bit.
They are curious/nosy in Sault Mich. All doors must be labeled, even if the label is only slightly helpful.
Backlit photo number two: a fern frond this evening.
Thursday, 26 May 2016
You know if this was your neighborhood, you’d sure shop sometimes at Kimmy’s Korner Groc.
Silo sentinels of the Midwest often flank barns, but not all are dilapidated and deteriorating, like this specimen.
What is not in this photo is a modest-sized drone far above…a backhoe and a drone witnessing latrine use…glad I was on the sidelines.
Orchid in window-still-life. Very welcoming. (Thnx.)