What's to be found in a kitchen utensil store?

Kitchenware stores are like hardware stores, or so they seem to me. There is always something on the next rack to draw your eye to it. (I thought the display units were called "gondolas," but my sis Mel, the lady who works at JCP and is therefore an authority, said they call them "fixtures.") In any case, color is key in kitchen stuff.

I was out and about today headed to a beading shop at The Flour Mill (an old mill converted into shops and restaurants) downtown Spokane, but ended up in the kitchenware shop. I had so much fun discovering images to capture. However, my camera doesn't seem to hold a charge very long these days, so all of these are iPhotos. But, fun iPhotos. At least I think they are. Please enjoy, if you can.

August 10, 2011



Looked like their demo kitchen was set up for a class



There were two Etsy treasuries that featured my work today:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTA1NTQ0Njd8NTU4NTQzOTk5/autumn-sunshine-through-my-kitchen

Autumn Sunshine Through my Kitchen Window

Curator: SunflowerRagWorks

“Morning Tea” digital photograph

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTI3MjYyODV8NTU4ODIzNTI1/swim-to-me

Swim to me

Curator: Lauren Paradise

“Oysters and Barnacles” acrylic painting

Bondo, Baby!

Suki and I took a little look-see this afternoon. What better way to spend a hot summer Sunday afternoon than going to a drive. I have this whopping big truck now, so I can see ever so much more than what I observed from my low slung Miata. I do miss that sweetie ride, but I've moved on to bigger stuff, in a manner of speaking.

One of the places we encountered was an old, small auto repair garage that looked like it was no longer in operation, but it had a number of old cars--some very old--but most of them were only the chassis and body, no innards. Just my kinda vehicles!

Let me reiterate about my Bondo Series. Years ago, my two sons worked on their own cars in my driveway. There were times when they did body work, and took the paint down to the bare metal in preparation for applying bondo, finishing, and repainting. There was something very appealing to me about the marks and scratches of the damaged, distressed metal, and the marks of the hand work done to repair. There was also something about the odd beauty of the deterioration of the metal that would soon be covered over/hidden and made shiny and new. I liked the imperfections, the dents, the rust, the stressed metal.

My sons no longer fix their cars in my driveway, but I'm hooked on finding distressed metal and photographing it. I've called it Bondo Series, even though I don't photograph ANY bondo. I just liked the sound of "Bondo."

OK? Alright!

Today I took some Bondo Series photographs. Here are a few of them:

August 7, 2011 (Happy Birthday, Meggan!)



Love the bullet holes (iphoto)




The tension of the rope seemed to add something
and the snippets of blue sky beyond
(iphoto)




This was an orange Dodge muscle car
(iphoto)




I'm uber pleased with this one, great colors
(iphoto)


Oh, Etsy treasury: Yesterday I uploaded a new photograph, one of the ones from the violin repair shop here in Spokane. Within 5 minutes or less, it was featured in curator Lan Mantas' treasury. Did the photograph sell? No. But it was nice to be featured in "Dada Poetry."
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTU3MzM1Njl8NTQzMjY1MTg4/dada-poetry
Today another one popped up:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTI3MjYyODV8NTQ3MzQ4ODYz/lighthearted
 "Lighthearted" curated by http://www.laurenparadise.etsy.com/ featured my photo "Hello Yellow."