Wasted Words
Victoria, British Columbia
2016

This is the setting for the typewriter photo from the other day (see it here). The wadded up paper in and around the wastebasket brought to my mind an image of someone working and on one draft after another of an important missive, only to get frustrated and start over once again.

Tire Man
Idaho Falls, Idaho
2013

First Crow on the Moon
Bozeman, Montana
2016

Just fooling around with composite images again. The title of this post might not make much sense unless you’ve seen the earlier POTD image here. (Granted, even then it might not make much sense!)

Caravan
Bozeman, Montana
2016

The background of this composite image is a close-up shot from a couple of years ago of part of a sculpture at the Seattle Art Museum. It was the pyramid shape that lead me to create the image and call it Caravan. (At first glance, the Fashion Queen thought she was looking at camels.)

Staying with the pyramid interpretation, I see the fading shadow and the darker marks in the upper left quadrant of the image as an approaching sandstorm. That made me think perhaps the caravan ought to be disappearing into the storm. That led to the version of the image below. If you care to, let me know in the comments which you prefer. I’m quite torn between the two myself.

Weapons in the War of Words
Victoria, British Columbia
2016

I thought this old typewriter resembled some kind of dangerous weapon. In fact, it might have been, in a metaphorical sense.

Lives Real and Imagined #40
Victoria, British Columbia
2016

This is really outside the realm of my Lives Real and Imagined series but the title still applies as it is two real geezers lounging on the porch of an imaginary frontier town in the Royal British Columbia Museum. Except for their more modern dress, they seemed to fit right in. I was envious of their chairs as I could have used a sit-down too.

Simple But Effective
Victoria, British Columbia
2016

If you’re a a regular viewer of my POTDs you know that I occasionally post images of things that remind me of something other than what they are, such as the face in a sink here. But the folks that created the photos on this boredpanda web page, take the idea to a whole new level. I enjoyed the results considerably.

Cave Masks
Victoria, British Columbia
2016

I didn’t start out intending this to be mask week but it seems that’s what has happened. This is the last one I have (think). These masks were in an artificial cave in the Royal British Columbia Museum, made to simulate a space where ceremonies involving the masks took place I believe.

Mosquito Mask
Victoria, British Columbia
2016

I doubt the creature on the head of this mask was meant to be a mosquito, but with the long proboscis, who knows? Perhaps it’s size and bright colors were meant to scare off mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus.