Smoke gets in your sun

Five minutes before sun hide

Smoke from the forest fires twenty six hundred miles away reaches our shores.  Five minutes later, the pall in the western sky hid the setting sun.  

Only helping

Folding step ladder and cardboard

The folding step ladder in the store display window allows the shop keeper to put products high up on the display shelves.  Neither the ladder itself, nor the flattened cardboard boxes protecting the floor of the display window, are for sale.

Recent cave painting

Cave painting in tunnel

The colors and shapes of this multilayered and multi-covered graffito seen on the wall of an overpass resemble the primitive cave paintings made many thousands of years ago.

Brass diamonds

Smith Co. 14x14 cap

The design of this 14 x 14 diamond pattern utility access cover incorporates diamonds as fields for the Smith Co. company logo.  Soles of passers-by shoes prevent this brass cap from developing a true patina; instead it stays slightly burnished. 

 

Water cover arches

WATER by AMETEK

Seen in the street beneath our feet, this water curb service utility box cover by Ametek features some curving design elements and a slot for a pentagon bolt. 

Covers of a similar design are produced by Maclean Highline of Fort Mill, South Carolina.  Those use the "Highline" name, switching the "water" and brand name locations.  The "Pentek" brand covers also this similar design.

  

Crack in the cover

Look deep into my...

The concrete access cover for this underground utility space has developed a hole.  Passers-by can now peer into that space without having to lift the cumbersome cover to see what is inside.