Monday, September 21, 2026

Security envelope ambulances

 
security envelope with bambulances
organizational pattern
 
This security envelope pattern features utility trucks; the side of the truck has a circle with a cross in it - ambulances.  The pattern is skewed slightly and the images are flipped at the fold.  
 
 

Friday, September 11, 2026

Security envelope dashes

 
sprinkles for enveolope backing
Sprinkle them all over

 
This envelope security pattern features sprinkles all over.  Up close, they look like a mix of em and en dashes.
 
 
 

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Curvy and windy

 
winds and curves in starcase
Arrow = up

This curved and winding  staircase is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph.
 
n.b., the mirror staircase of this one is on the other side of this entry way to the building.

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Blue flowers and red filaments

 
Echium vulgare - blue weed
Blueweed
 
The Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) produces a lot of rich nectar, a blue pollen, and attracts pollinators.  It looks great, but, should be avoided.

Viper's bugloss blossoms
Echium vulgare
  
The prickly hairs can be skin irritants. The plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids; these can cause liver damage to livestock and humans. The alkaloid is also in the honey.  The honey should not eaten regularly or for long terms.



Monday, August 31, 2026

Waiting at the station

 
waiting sun and shade
. . . should be here, soon . . . 

Waiting, one in the shade, one in the sun.
 

 

Friday, August 28, 2026

Sweet Joe Pye

With the decline of small field farmers, this hay field is no longer mowed.  It has overgrown with . . . 
 
joe pye weed field
Eutrochium purpureum
 
. . . Sweet Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum).  
 
Up close with Joe:
 
flower of sweet joe pye weed
Flower head

Each flower head has many florets.  
The nectar rich flowers are enjoyed by bees, bumble bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.  The scent of sweet vanilla is wonderful.
 
 
 

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Stand pipe

 
station water standpipe
purple and yellow and greys

A water standpipe stands ready at the station.  Two yellow bollards protect it from direct contact.