Red bonnet hydrant

 

White body with red bonnet and outlet caps

  

This smooth-top fire hydrant "catches some rays" while steadfastly awaiting a call to duty.

 

Orange tiger lily

 

Called the "common tiger lily" or "orange day lily", this cluster of rain-dropped Hemerocallis Fulva is a sight to see.

  

Firework front and side

The ring type fireworks are best seen when viewed head on.  

 

Sometimes, the shell goes a certain way and the effect is seen from the side . . .  

 

Side view

A more frontal view of a ring type firework lets the effect be seen:

 

Head on view

 

They are enjoyable either way!

 

 

 

 

Potato chip real vs. enlarged

 

Enlarged and real

The potato chips on this potato chip bag may look a bit "off".  That is because a real potato chip from inside this bag has been placed on top of the "enlarged to show texture" potato chips.  The real potato chip is close to size to that of the "enlarged" potato chip.  That was not the largest potato chip found inside this bag.  A real potato chip as large as the "enlarged" potato chip had been found; it was consume before its size could be recorded.

 

 

Security envelope plaid

10 by 10 minus 1 and 10

To make this plaid pattern, start with a grid pattern rotated by 45 degrees.  Set up a 10 line by 10 line grid and on each side of that grid, remove one line.

Note that the blank areas in the pattern were caused by printer problems.

Ox eye spiral

 

Don't get dizzy

The Leucanthemum vulgare is considered in some places to be an invasive species.  That does not prevent one from taking a closer look at the spiraling floret of the ox eye daisy.

 

Close up buttercup

That is yellow!

Commonly known as St. Anthony's turnip, the butter cup (Ranunculus bulbosus) has bright yellow flowers.  The flower petals are glossy and curved; they reflect light towards the center of the flower.  The "turnip" name comes from the bulbous root of this flower.

Children use the flower in a game to determine if someone likes butter.  One child picks the yellow flower and asks another "Do you like butter?". They then hold the yellow flower up close under the others chin, see the yellow reflection from the yellow flower on the skin, and exclaim that "Yes, you like butter.".

Stereoscopy Day 2026

 

Now, even more stereo!

 

June 21st is "Stereoscopy Day".  On that day in 1838, Sir Charles Wheatstone presented his reflecting stereoscope to the Royal Society of London and demonstrated his theory of binocular vision.  More info about this event, the fifth, is at the Stereoscopy Day site https://stereoscopyday.wordpress.com/ or #StereoscopyDay 

 

Let's start the celebration right now!   Presented is a relaxed view 3d stereogram of clouds at different levels:

 

Fast moving...

 

You can view my 3d / stereogram / stereograph / stereoscopic images by selecting one of these labels.  These links each should produce the same image results, as I have been pretty good about labeling:

https://skeetmotis.blogspot.com/search/label/3d

https://skeetmotis.blogspot.com/search/label/stereogram

https://skeetmotis.blogspot.com/search/label/stereograph  

 

Enjoy the views!

 

 

Security envelope basket woven

 

Five bars per band

 

The basket weave pattern used for this security envelope is very rustic.  The pattern does take a break at the fold line.

 

 

Spathe and spadix

 

Pulpit and Jack

 

A close-up view of a Jack in the Pulpit.  From its colors and striping, this may be the Arisaema triphyllum.  The spathe (the "pulpit") surrounds the spadix (the "Jack"). As the fruit ripens, the red berries appear.

 

Get a grip

  

front of Gripper (a)

 

 

back of Gripper (a)

 

front of Gripper (b)

 

back of Gripper (b)

The Scovill Brass Company started in 1802 in Watertown, Connecticut.  It acquired the Oakville Manufacturing Company of Oakville, Connecticut in December, 1923, making it a division of Scovill.  That division was closed in 1973.  The Scovill Company went through some business tribulations; in 2014 it became Morito Scovill Americas.

 

The chronological order of the packets is not certain; they are shown in the order they were found.

 

Some good advice

Some good advice here!

 

 

black border from scanning; original is 8 1/2 x 11 inches

 

This flyer offers some helpful advice:

 

DO NOT DUMP

INTO TOWER

 FLOOR STACK.

 

PUT IN-LINE

  WITH OFFICE. 

 

That sounds like good advice - for someone.  But who? And about what?

 

The numbers in the lower right corner ( 34-2002-9438-6  0264914.1 ) do not provide relief.

 

 

Security envelope polygons 2

Unlike the polygon security envelope pattern previously posted here,

 

Blue polygons

 

this polygon pattern does not seem to want to be mirrored and matched to create a bigger pattern.  Despite that hinderance, it is an interesting pattern.  

 

N.B. this pattern came from an envelope used by the same business that used the previously posted polygon pattern.

 

Addendum:  by doing a V flip and an overlay, it is possible to extend the pattern slightly in the vertical; nothing seems to inspire a further extension in the horizontal or vertical.

 

 

Just a flip and overlay

 

Maybe one of the readers can provide a way to extend this pattern?

Somebody else's sunset

 

Golden glow in the west

 

Somebody else's photo, of some place else's sunset, is their idea of a sunset.  It seems to be, but need not be, a vision from the past.

 

 

Molly Stark bed

The legendary Molly Stark was married to a Revolutionary War general whose truncated quote gave rise to a  state motto.

tag front

Her furniture inspired a whole collection; this tag for the inspired No. 2050D bed tells more.

tag back

The H.T. Cushman Manufacturing Company started in 1886 on Prospect Street in Bennington, Vermont.  They relocated to Water Street in 1892.  In 1933, they introduced the Cushman Colonial Creations line of furniture.  

From the tag, we read:

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"No. 2050D  -  Molly Stark Bed  -  The basic motif for the entire group is the decorative block front design on the drawer fronts.  The historical background for this design centers around several old pieces of furniture once said to be owned by the attractive wife of General John Stark of Revolutionary fame."

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The Cushman family sold the business to General Interiors Corporation in 1964.  In 1971, the  plant was sold to Green Mountain Furniture Company, who ceased operation in 1980.  General Interiors - who remained owner of the Cushman name - was sold to General Mills, Inc. and later to Maytag.

Security envelope blue diamonds

This envelope security pattern features diamonds on blue paper.

Those are tilted squares

The registration markers can be seen in the upper corners of the wings.

Security envelope stars

It was a pleasant surprise to find this envelope security pattern of four-pointed diamond-shaped polygons.   

 

Are 4 points a star?

 

The repeating pattern itself is very small; repeated it grows massively.

 

Security envelope patterns come in different patterns that .  Usually, they are small and tightly packed, covering the whole interior of the envelope to obfuscate the contents.   

 

 

 

Diamionds and squares

 

Cracked but in use

This cracked manhole cover is seen in the street beneath our feet.  The cover features a 47 x 47 pointy diamonds pattern.  It is surrounded by a 3 x 142 squares encirclement which itself is encircled by 28 bricks.  An altogether lovely layout.

 

 

Mirror mirror on the floor

 

<--  those are student names

 

The dance studio closed.  Left behind was an empty room with five mirrors on a wall.  Now four; the middle mirror has detached itself from the plum painted wall and crashed to the wooden floor, leaving a shattered view of its former self.

 

Electric gansett

 

Now called by another name

This cross hatched manhole cover is seen in the street beneath our feet.  The company identity oval interrupts the orderly layout of the "=", "-", and "|" elements that are used in the design of this utility cover.  

 

Originally called the United Electric Power Company, the name was changed to that seen on the manhole cover on November 30, 1927.  This cover would have been produced some time after that. 

 

 

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The comment by anon at 12:37:00 intrigued me to look up that reference.  Hi Nabor is "your Home Grown Supermarket - since 1963" in Baton Rouge.  It has three locations.  In Google Street View, each store has a white vehicle standing in front of the store on the left side:

pickup truck

BRPD cruiser

sedan

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Marlbleous too

 

Was Escher the architect?

A fifth floor view of the stairs previously seen from the second floor.  This stairy scene is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph. 

 

 

Solid center

12x12x6x6 with solid center

This emergence of this variant of the 12 x 12 x 6 x 6 segments per ring manhole cover has caused circular crackling in the street asphalt.  This was seen in the street beneath our feet.

Electric red

highlighted functionality

This double ring "ELECTRIC SERVICE" manhole cover features a 15 x 15 cross hatched rectangular diamonds central panel.  The outer ring consists of an alternating pattern of 30 "=" and 30 "|".  Red paint is used to highlight the function of this manhole cover.

The circular crackles around the cover enhance this scene in the street beneath our feet.

Contrails in the cloud

Four flew by

Jet airplanes on their way to somewhere flew through these cirrocumulus stratiformis clouds.  The airplanes are long gone; their contrails remain in the clouds as visible reminders of their passage.

Starry starry pumpkin

A fourth grade arts class interprets a pumpkin patch on a starry night with a crescent moon overhead:  

Pumpkin 3

 

Pumpkin 5

Pumpkin 6

Pumpkin 7

Pumpkin 8

 

 

Pumpkin 9

 They are all so good!

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To dispel any notion that those pumpkins are distorted dimensionally:

A sheet load of pumpkins

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Leaky rainbow

 

It is colorful, but it is not a rainbow

Passers-by were taken by surprise by the petroleum product drip "rainbow" that appeared in the parking lot beneath their feet.

 

Colorful cobbles

 

Rain drain

This scene in the street beneath our feet has an 8 x 3 rectangular opening storm drain grate and a 9 by 9 square diamond manhole cover with 23 "teeth".  The somewhat symmetric cracks and colorful cobbles add to the scene.

 

Other examples of that style of manhole cover can be seen here and here.   

 

 

Turn three

 

Roaring by

Close together and in a bunch, this pack of lawn tractors rounding turn three makes for an exciting afternoon of racing.

 

Marlbleous

pillars and balustrades

This set of stairs on the second floor is in the Second Empire style.  The scene is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph.

 

A stereogram scene from the fifth floor may be seen here.

At a siding

 

Durable and yellow

This Budd car (BC-30) is parked at a siding.  In front of it, a long lasting yellow-painted Durable Bumping Post marks the end of the track.

 

This siding scene is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph.

 

n.b. the pre-bumper stop Budd car can be scened here. 

 

 

 

 

Security envelope polygons

Security envelope patterns come in different patterns.  Usually, they are small and tightly packed, covering the whole interior of the envelope to obfuscate the contents.  It was a pleasant surprise to receive this envelope security pattern of widely spaced polygons.

 

It's a tee shirt!

This blue polygon pattern has been mirrored left-right and  up-down.  The tiny diamond in the center is the lower-right, lower-left, upper-right, and upper-left corner, respectively, of the pattern after the horizontal and vertical flipping and tiling.

Some sketchy V and H flips and overlays give a rough draft view of a more complete polygon security pattern.

 

. . . flipped and overlaid . . .

 

This rough sketch demonstrates the result of enthusiastic polygon pattern and line matching.

 

adjusting lines to meet

 

It is possible to continue the process and create even denser patterns.

 

Budd and buddy

 

"Stripey" and "Red"

The Budd car (BC-15) has a friend - a red (number 120) interurban car.

 

The red (No. 120) car is a Model 55 gasoline car that was built by the J. G. Brill Company of Philadelphia.  It went in to service in 1929 as a track inspection (Sperry Rail Service No. 105).  During WWII, it served as munitions car for Remington Arms.  Later, it was painted bright yellow and was at the Branford Electric Railway Association before ending up at a trolley museum.  At present, it is here.

 

This rail yard scene is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph.