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While visiting Portland, I took in some of the sites and snapped a few shots of poster remnants. When I have the time or inspiration I may process a few more, in the meantime, here’s what I have so far.
This past Saturday was spent at the Puyallup State Fair. As I chowed down on corn fritters and funnel cake, I was reminded of the Indiana State Fairgrounds, which was just down the road from my childhood home and where I found myself year round either at the fair, many an antique show with my grandmother, or struggling to stop with an ounce of grace on the ice rink. The Puyallup Fair had everything from salesmen pitching their wares to rodeos, 4H cat shows, sheared sheep, and carnival rides. It was great fun but with the cost of rides (at nearly $5 a pop) the good times had to be reigned in with only a lackluster ride in the haunted house but good times spent on the bumper cars and Spaceship (a.k.a. Gravitron).
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What can I say, I like rotting tree trunks just as much as I like soggy, ripped newspapers.
Yet another drizzly and overcast day at one of our fine national parks. It was a nice visit, though, and half the fun was the trip getting there and back.
Near Pier 1 in San Francisco there is a nice art installation of images on marble slabs in a Ben-day dots style, similar to Pointillism. Using the macro setting on my camera, I took some extreme closeups to capture the graphical patterns.
