Category: Architecture
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Mexico 1989: Ancient ruins of Tingambato and the re-creation of a postcard with uncanny results.
During our 1989 exploratory trip to Michoacan, we ventured to ancient ruins known as Tingambato. The top photograph is from a postcard. Often, I try to stand exactly where the postcard photographer stood and take the exact same shot. Notice the child in blue and red running across the courtyard. To reproduce the postcard accurately,…
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Mural, mural, on the wall
From Seattle to Port Angeles I’ve come to appreciate murals. Granted, some are gimmicks. Some are a form of public art that can draw you in. Like a scene from a bygone era or depiction of a forest scene. In this mix are a couple of murals from the border fence between the U.S. and…
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Close To A Mile Wide, GRAND COULEE DAM
The goal lay ahead; Grand Coulee Dam. I’ve wanted to come here since talking to an older lady some 30 years ago when Curt and I lived off the Hood Canal. She went on about her husband working on the Coulee Dam. Every other sentence had the words “Grand Coulee” and she was boisterous as…
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AN OLYMPIAN TOUR OF THE CAPITOL
To tour a state’s capitol for the first time is one of life’s sweet pleasures. Today’s tour of the statecapitol in Olympia surpassed all expectations. Both chambers were in session and we observed activity on the floor. At one point, the Senators looked up at us in the gallery and applauded. They mistook us for…