Scene in a puddle

In and around water

Drying puddles of mineral laden waters reflect nearby bare trees.

Seen in the parking lot near a street beneath our feet.

 

Long haul

A 120 feet of hall

It's a long hall, and a long haul, a hundred and twenty feet or so, down this brightly lit hallway.

This view down the hall is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph.

 

Spill flowing

Spilling and dispersing

A wet parking lot reveals the petroleum product drips and leaks on the street beneath our feet.  As light is reflected and refracted by the layers of differing thicknesses, colorful "rainbows" are produced by the thin film interference.  The slight slope of the lot shows the flow and spread of the spilled product.

 

Nothing borrowed, nothing read

This copy of "The Summing Up" by W. Somerset Maugham was spotted on a shelf in the "Books for Sale" room of a library.  Except for the heavy paper oxidation which has made the paper brittle, this seventh printing from March, 1956 looked to be in remarkably good condition:

 

 

Seventh Printing - March 1956

 

A look at the inside back cover revealed the reason for its well preserved state:

 

 

Never borrowed

 

 

This was a library book that had never been borrowed.  The library book card in the sleeve was in pristine condition.

 

 

Next to that book was this copy of "South Sea Stories of W. Somerset Maugham", published in 1950 by Permabooks. The paper in it was even more oxidized; overall, the book was in good condition:

 

Published in 1950

A look at the inside back cover revealed that same reason for its good condition:

Never borrowed

This was another library book that had never been borrowed.  Who knows if either of these books was even looked through and put back on the shelf?

 

 

Sitting out there on the circulation shelves all those years, seeing their friends and neighbors come and go, these two books must have been very lonely, waiting and hoping that someone, maybe the next person walking down their aisle, would stop in front of them, take them off the shelf, walk over to the Circulation Desk, check them out, and take them home to read them.

 

 

Rocks in a pile

JABOR

Looking over the seawall, there is just a bunch of rocks, on the beach, beneath our feet...

 

Slanty holes

 

 Cracked cover corner

This manhole cover was spotted in the street beneath our feet.  The six holes in this sewer cover are not orthogonal with respect to the plane of the cover.  Each of the holes is set at an angle that slants from the outer edge towards the center of the cover; if projected downward, all six would converge at a point somewhere beneath the cover