Security envelope dashes

 

Sprinkle them all over

 

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

 

 

 

Curvy and windy

 

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.

Blue flowers and red filaments

 

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.

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.

Waiting at the station

 

. . . should be here, soon . . . 

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

 

 

Sweet Joe Pye

With the decline of small field farmers, this hay field is no longer mowed.  It has overgrown with . . . 

 

Eutrochium purpureum

 

. . . Sweet Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum).  

 

Up close with Joe:

 

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.

 

 

 

Stand pipe

 

purple and yellow and greys

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

 

 

 

Station airy arches

 

At the bottom is the top half of an 8

 

Seen, these stationary arches seem very disquieting. 

 

n.b. Scene here is a relaxed view 3d stereograph.