Cemetery Black and White

 

Tombstones - Eugene  2021

White Flowers - Eugene  2021

Wandering around the cemetery after visiting Baby Seymour.

Trompe l'oeil

 

Margaret's Preliminary Bathroom Remodel Sketch - Eugene  2021

Very preliminary. I don't know if anything from the sketch has made it into the final plan. 

I saw it laying on our breakfast table in the Eugene AirBnB. Anyway . . . what interests me is that I find the iPhone photo of the sketch to have a certain trompe l'oeil quality. ("Trompe l'oeil is a style of painting that's so realistic that it appears to be three-dimensional.") 

By the way, trompe l'oeil is pronounced "trump loy." 

Sunset, Summer Solstice

 

Sunset (Summer Solstice) - Eugene  2021

 End of the longest day, looking west from the Eugene Masonic Cemetery. 

8:48 PM, according to the photo's file data. I used a Canon G5XII for the shot.

Baby Seymour Through The Years

 

Baby Seymour - Eugene  1984

Baby Seymour - Eugene  2009

Baby Seymour - Eugene  2021

In 1984 Mike was wandering around an old cemetery in Eugene with tripod and twin-lens reflex when he spotted Baby Seymour’s tombstone almost covered with ivy. After developing the negative and printing it, he noticed the spider lurking in the lower right.

Returning in 2009 he found that the ivy had been removed and Baby Seymour's tombstone had been somewhat refreshed.

Last month, 37 years after the first photograph, there was still no trace of ivy, but alas, the inscription has started to become somewhat illegible.

Harris Street Art

 

Scrooge McDuck, Jesus - Eugene  2021

Toy Ceiling - Eugene  2021

There are many curious and droll tableaux to be seen throughout judit's house. Found object art? Conceptual art? 

You be the judge.

Vietnamese Food Truck

 

Spring Rolls - Eugene  2021

Tam's Place - Eugene  2021

Excellent Vietnamese cuisine takeout . . . the spring rolls in particular were visually striking. While others waited in line during some warmish weather, Mike scurried over to a nearby grocery store to pick up some Ninkasi IPAs.

Tam's Place Ordering - Eugene  20221

Rental Car

 

Prius, Self-Portrait - Eugene  2021

We hadn't asked specifically for a Prius, so we were a bit surprised when we got one. This was Mike's first hybrid experience. Instead of a gear shift lever, the car had a front-mounted knob, the operation of which Mike finally figured out. Almost.

Hideaway Bakery

 

Bakery Door - Eugene  2021

Hideaway Bakery Products -  Eugene  2021

It was too crowded on our first visit Sunday morning. Much better early Monday. Quite tasty!

iPhone photos.

Monday Cat Blogging

 

Cat - Eugene 2021

Usually the small Canon doesn't exhibit any depth of field issues. But here, we see that the leaves are in focus and the cat is interestingly blurred.

Toothbrush Art

 

Toothbrush Art - Eugene 1998

Toothbrushes carefully placed just so in judit's backyard in 1998. Found Object Art? Conceptual Art? You be the judge.

Below, toothbrushes seen last month in her backyard. One speculates that they are the same objects that were seen in 1998. Maybe.

Bluebird Art, Toothbrushes - Eugene  2021

Eugene AirBnB

 

Plastic Sunflowers - Eugene 2021

Love Pillow - Eugene  2021

Hali and Mike's second Airbnb experience . . . the first one was in Yokohama. 

The interesting thing is that it was kind of expensive. But that was because they were having the Olympic track and field trials that week in Eugene (which we hadn't known about in advance).

Eugene Sightems

 

Moon, Van - Eugene  2021

Alley - Eugene  2021

Evening walking-around.

Eugene Airport

 

Go Ducks - Eugene  2021

Car Rental, Baggage Pickup Areas (Eugene Airport) - Eugene  2021

Quite a contrast between EUG and SFO. Nerve-shattering bedlam vs quite mellow vacant spaces.

Two Views of the McKenzie

McKenzie River #1 - Oregon  2015

McKenzie River #2 - Eugene  2015

Top: Up in the woods east of Eugene.

Bottom: Taken from a pedestrian/bike bridge in Eugene.

Eugene Sightems #2

Coca-Cola - Eugene  2015

Mame Exterior - Eugene  2015

Coca-Cola property now owned by the University of Oregon.

Mame (mah-may): an idiosyncratic sushi restaurant: varied (and delicious) items extremely skillfully prepared. (The small air conditioner, though, was not quite up to the blistering Eugene heat.)

Oregon Beer

Beer - Eugene  2015

"May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!"

- Gandalf, to Butterbur in The Fellowship of the Ring

Actually, the beer in Oregon was of surpassing excellence. Above, a shot of Springers Summer Ale taken at Falling Sky in Eugene. Yum!

Monday Merganser Blogging

Mergansers, McKenzie River - Eugene  2015

A "bunch of immatures," according to Barbara. Compare to my recent Yosemite sighting.

In Back of Our Motel

Vetch - Eugene  2015

There's a big series of interlinked walking paths along the McKenzie River (which we didn't find out about until our last day in Eugene).

Very nice.

Jaqua Center

Jaqua Center - Eugene  2015

Actually University of Oregon #3. Very intriguing building.

"The building is surrounded by water on all four sides, as if it floats on the landscape, just resting there in a confident, yet tranquil manner."

- Services for Student Atheletes

University of Oregon #2

Hayward Field - Eugene  2015

Call Me A Duck - Eugene  2015

Athletics are very important here.

Very important.