Category Archives: architecture
August 13
Hello, and welcome to another installment of Tiny Random California Roads I Recently Traveled.
If you take the Ono-Igo cutoff on Highway 36 at Platina (it makes sense if you’re there), you will be rewarded with spectacular scenery. And barns.
On A16, Humboldt County, California
photographed 8.2.2012
August 10
What’s left of the original town of Shasta is now the Shasta State Historic Park. These structures were built between 1853-1856.
Shasta, California
photographed 8.3.2012
Bonus: in memoriam (of a house)
This photo is from last year’s blog. It’s time to look at it again.
For nearly three years, I have driven past this abandoned farmhouse and observed its decline. At first, the window glass was intact. Then one day, the glass was broken and the tail ends of white curtains fluttered against the rough stucco walls. After a while, the curtain ends were tattered (and less white), and then they were just…gone.
Lately, I’ve noticed the front door standing open.
On Tuesday, the trees had been pulled down and were left in a big pile in front of the house.
And, this morning there was a bulldozer knocking down walls.
By tomorrow, the house will be no more.
I have a rather unreasonable sense of loss, and worry that the other buildings at the same intersection will soon suffer the same fate.
FM 1585 and FM 168
Hockley County, Texas
August 9
You know sometimes how you go to an unfamiliar city and feel right at home? Like you could live there? I didn’t feel that way here, but I did get to see this bridge, which my blogging pal over at El Bueno El Feo y El Malo will likely recognize as a design by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
Redding, California
photographed 8.2.2012
One Day | One Image 