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If Lavender is your Passion
Shop in Westport, Ireland.
Sunday Morning Dublin
River Liffey, the Ha’penny Bridge and Temple Bar.
Smallest Cathedral in Ireland
Only on Ireland would you find a bar nearly attached to a Cathedral.
Change of Blog Theme
I felt is was time to update a few links and widgets on my blog. While doing so it seemed like a good time to change “Themes”. The last theme was called “Chateau”, the current theme you see is called “Mystique”. I am at 86% usage of the space WordPress allows me to use for free. It has taken 5 years to get to this point. Once I max out I think I can convert my current blog over to a ‘premium’ account for a small, annual fee, something I plan on doing. The premium account will allow me to add much more to the visual and functional appearance of the blog. Thanks to all for your support and encouragement.
On another note, I will be having a show here in Seattle during the month of September. I will post a reminder and maps as the time gets closer. It will be in the same location as my last show, Capital Hill Hair, which is really a cool art space, in my opinion. I have about 20 framed images and I think most of them will be new or different from the last show I did. More black and white images this time around. Still need a few more images, which I will be working on this summer. It’s a long and torturous process for me (I’d rather go to the dentist!).
Blessings to all,
Bluestar2012 (aka Fred)
Interruption
Fighting pnuemonia , acute pharyngitis and an ear infection. Hope to be back posting soon.
Micro Houses
One of the new trends in affordable housing, I guess. These ‘homes’ are constructed on a trailer chassis and I presume, have all of the usual hookups that living in the 21st century requires.
Rust Tones Today
The first metal sculpture I ran across in NE Portland, OR.
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 43 trips to carry that many people.
Milestone: 200th Follower
Moments ago this photoblog reached a milestone. There are now 200 Followers of “Bluestar2012”. The 200th Follower is: ‘Lemanshots’, from Munich, Germany. Thanks to you and the other 199 faithful Followers! I started this photoblog on Feb. 2, 2009. It has been quite a journey. Thanks so much to everyone who has visited this site.
Fading Vespa Sign: Update*
Although nearly faded away, this is a sign on the old Vespa Club in Georgetown. The painting is supposed to show a woman ( circa 1960′s) sitting on a yellow Vespa scooter.
*Update: Sadly this painted ad on the side of this old building is now gone forever. The building now has new cedar siding ( painted yellow ) and a new roof. The above, Woman on a Vespa, has ridden off to the trash heap of history, sadly :-(.
Summer work on Alberta St.
This summer work was done on Alberta St. Underneath the asphalt surface there was a layer of red brick and underneath the brick there were the tracks and ties to the old streetcar tracks that used to run along Alberta St. many decades ago. It was fun to watch the dig in progress, not knowing exactly what they would unearth. Some of the streetcar track was set aside for historical or artistic reasons.
Spotted in Red Hook
An Airstream and an American flag. Americana at its best.
Photo Within a Photo
Wherever I walk I tend to find odd objects, things out of place. I found this framed photo walking around NE Portland a few weeks ago. The photo seems to be a partial view of a house.
A Second Look
I’m pretty sure I have posted this photo in the near past. I also included an 8X10 print of it in my current display, that is about to end this Friday. What I have been curious about is the pair of lower legs in the photo, behind the old phone booth. I am not sure if everyone saw and got what I was trying to do with this image: Walking in front of the Coney Island Museum of “Freaks”, etc. is this torso-less being. To me, it was a curious juxtaposition, caught at just the right millisecond. A second later or earlier and the whole body is seen and the statement is lost. No matter how long and hard one looks at this image we will never know the ‘owner’ of the torso that must be attached to the legs we see.
Art Heist?
I was at the salon this morning, where I have had a photo display for the past 6 weeks, and discovered that someone has taken this photo, without contacting me about payment. If, perchance, that person is reading this blog ( since they did take the display card with my email) I encourage you to contact me ASAP. Although it is flattering that someone would consider my work worthy of theft, I am not in a position to give away my art.
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