Monthly Archives: August 2012

August 8

along New Navy Base Road
near Eureka, California

photographed 7.30.2012

August 7

Well, it’s been an exhausting couple of days, hasn’t it, with all my yammering on about architecture, and design elements, and building materials, and etc.?

A change of pace is in order, and here it is: a feather.

Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas

photographed 3.28.2012

August 6

A wall, a window, and some other stuff. (Again, my inattention in architectural history is apparent. Maybe it would sound better if I said “some other elements”?)

along the waterfront
downtown Minneapolis

photographed 4.25.2009

August 5

Out here in West Texas, we think something’s old if it’s, say, more than forty years old.*

Other parts of the world use a slightly different scale to gauge what’s “old.” This place was built in the 17th Century; it’s called Lodge Park. The photo is a detail of some architectural elements on the second floor balcony. (If only I’d paid more attention to architectural history, I could tell you what they are called. I think of them as “those flute-y deals” but I am almost positive that’s not the actual, correct name.)

Lodge Park, near Cheltenham, UK

photographed 10.2007

* Hey, wait a minute! I just called myself old. I wonder if I meant to do that?

August 4

Parts of door locks at Adkins Architectural Antiques and Treasure.

Houston, Texas

photographed 2.14.2010