Security envelope letter A

No. 9 envelope

This No. 9 security envelope is made by the Aimoh Company.  It is their model 30128.  The security pattern uses the letter "A"; this reinforces their corporate identity.  The combination of  the "A" and inverted "A", both with deckled cross bars, and the blue color makes for a pleasing envelope security pattern.  

Cloudy layers

Orangey sunset

This sunset is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph.  Click on the image to embiggify it. 

A passing weather system brought with it different types of clouds at different levels.  This stereogram emphasizes those levels.  The high clouds are from the main system.  The lower, puffy, clouds are formed by the cold winds of the system passing over warm waters.  Noted is a hard to see sundog about one-third of the way in from the right side.

Joint shine

Two sections meet

Seen in the street beneath our feet, the proud sections of this bridge joint are shined by tired wear from vehicular traffic. 

Polar explorer

Accidentally running a checkerboarded square as a linear polar and then performing a polar to cartesian transformation, with repeats, yields inwardly folding patterns.

first

second

third

fourth

fifth time

The pattern continues to collapse; five steps are enough to see that happen.  

n.b.: Your results will vary with the transformer that is used.

Chocolate Beetle

This very customized Volkswagen Beetle with a Sunroof may be circa 1962.  It keeps its classic lines while adding many features.  One is the dark chocolate metallic paint.

Low to the ground

The windshield opens out.

Hood and front details

A closer look at the windshield and how it is held in place.   The windshield wipers are removed to allow the glass to swing forward.  The side mirrors are mounted way in front.

Just as low from the left side

The view of the left side shows just how low this Bug is at rest.  The front windshield and the two side rear windows open out.  The rear "hood" is opened to get more air to the air cooled engine.

Full on frontal view

The front view gives a taste of the dark chocolate color.  Maybe that is a dark roast coffee?

Full on rear view

What this Bug looks like as it pulls away from you.  n.b., the license plate is purposedly blanked out.

Morning dewed

Big drops on small web

The heavy morning dew highlights the grass spider (genus Agelenopsis) spider web seen in the grass beneath our feet.

Wheelless vehicles

 

Prototipo Topolino

A prototype of the Fiat Topolino "senza ruote".  The model year is approx. mid-1950s.

 

 

The Cadillac Motor Car Division of the US auto maker General Motors Corporation investigated wheel-less cars.   This concept ad for the 1955 model year was not used.

 

Cadillac Series Sixty Special concept car

Noted:  the other models in the ad still have wheels.

 

Waiting for a ride

 

Going up the country!

 

After their exciting visit to the Big City, these potted plants sit in the shade, waiting for their ride back to the farm.

 

 

 

Security envelope ambulances

 

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.  

 

 

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.

 

Ford 1965 Falcon

 

Arrow points that way

 

This fabulific 1965 Ford Falcon is ready for a greenie at the drive-through lane. 

 

Security envelope marbled

 

Marbled

This envelope security pattern is more intricate than it looks.  The blue marbling is printed over a grey pattern.  This is done to add an extra layer of security.

 

 

 

Beachy day

It's a beach!

Blue with white stripes, or white with blue - this umbrella is at the beach for the day.

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.