Wood and brass, marble and glass

 

Southern view

The south entrance of this United States Custom House and Post Office building is presented as  relaxed view 3d stereograph.  

 

The entrances to the building are flanked by bronze lamps.

 

Imposing 

The lamps are almost 6 feet in height.  The big panels of textured "glass" in the lamp are now plastic.  The original glass was curved, as is the plastic that is in there now. When the original glass was damaged, it may have been too costly to repair or replace it with the same curved and textured glass, or to even find a replacement for that style of glass.

 

 

Shined up

 

 

Also shiny

 

The entrance doors have their PULL door plates.  These inform the patrons to "pull on the handle".

 

 

Reflected in the table top

The brass work on the table top shows signs of former accoutrements.

 

 

Table and view without

Patrons can gaze out the window as they use the table.

 

This main post office building was completed in 1931.  It was modeled after the main building of the United States Postal Service in New York City, now known as the James A. Farley Building.

 

Frosty leaves

Frost on windows from a frosty overnight is enjoyed the next day.

 

 

A frosty one

 

 

Frosty, too

 

No telling what the next frost will look like!

 

Two sills

These window sills - and window frames - have not been re-varnished since they were put in, leaving the wood grain exposed to view.

 

 

The left of one

 

The right of another

Years of exposure to the southern sun has dried out the springwood, leaving the summerwood proud.  A low sun angle enhances the lines, texture, and waves of the wood grain.  

 

From the age of the building and the color of the wood, it is possible that this wood is American chestnut.

 

Two panes

 

Ripples in glass windows

 

The sunlight shining through a window on the sunny side of the building reveals the patterns of two window panes in a window on the shady side of the building. 

 

It is hard to tell if the patterns in these glass panes are the same or different.  They could be the same, one glazed with the pattern facing in and the other facing out.

 

 

Pre-school school

Prior to opening

A stroll past a school building before the school year has started allows for a leisurely view of the sky reflected in the windows.

Reflecting on a reflection

Upper convergence

The two image planes - the windows reflected in the puddle and the surface of the puddle - converge at the top of the photograph.  This reflection of windows in a puddle is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph.  

 

Frosty the window

Who tells the frost how to do this?  

Frosty one (of three)

Frosty too (of three)

Frosty three (off tree)

And to do it different each time?

 

Empty place

Gallery passage way

The paucity of persons at this art exhibition permits the uninterrupted enjoyment of the gallery light, shadow, and space.  Indeed, those prove to be more agreeable that the exhibit itself.

String of pearls

Pearl necklace

The resulting multiple refractions from a bright LED shining through four sheets of plate glass creates this double string of pearls.

Tan and white

Rothko construction

The two works on this brick wall by Mark Rothko complete the complex pattern presented by the air conditioner, the two grated windows, a row of mailboxes, a bag of garbage, and the sidewalk.   

  

 

Window drops

Through the haze, foggily 

Water droplets from the fog and haze transform the view out side the window.

Green dragon

Bushes outside 

The orderliness of the roof and clapboard and windows is interrupted by the bushes growing next to the foundation.

Seeing the curtains, sharp eyed readers will note that this is the outside of the inside seen in the previous post.  Everyone else can follow the link back. 

One could imagine a green dragon there:  the open mouth with the branches being the tongue (or flames!), the teeth formed by the leaves, the two curved horns, the prickled hump of the back that sweeps down to the tail, which itself extends to the right and out of the image.

Mom knows best

Filled with Motherly advice, this inscription appears inside the front of a used paperback book:

Mom's advice 

----------

Dear Max -

Don't laugh -

this is exactly the

kind of book a

Guy like you

should read!

Love,

Mom

Merry Xmas

1998

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What is Mom recommending?  The book is "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary:

"Showstopper!" (1996 English edition)

This revised and update edition was published in 1996 in England.  It describes the development at Microsoft of the Windows NT operating system, that family of Windows OS that spans from Windows NT 3.1 to Windows Server 2019.

One wonders if Mom read the book beforehand?

Five windows

Wooden pole

The wood utility pole in front of the factory building leans slightly to the left.

Linery 2

Library linery

The lines in this 3d relaxed view stereogram seem to converge on the aloe vera plant.
 

Reflected window

Reflection in puddle

In the lower right corner, the reflection of the window opening appears to be in the same plane as the floor.  In the upper left, it appears as being perpendicular to the floor.

Corner store windows

The bricked up window

Corner stores often had windows on the side street side of the store.  As these became inconvenient, they would be bricked up.  The bricks and masonry work never matches that of the original wall.  Here, swirls from the almost-removed graffiti add color and movement to the brick patterns.

 

The patient model

The next window, around the corner from the store entrance, has also been worked, as the brickwork shows.  Inside, the mannequin model awaits the next fashion trend.