the historic William A. Curtis House, fenced off against vandals and squatters, but still a landmark on Poole Road despite its current state of disrepair, 10-10-11
the landmark Pullen Park pond, drained for maintenance and renovation, 4-6-10
Blue Flame Tires (La Llantera Azul) a bright blue and brightly lit beacon on a dark Thanksgiving evening, 11-24-11
Vines in Garner-Raleigh, NC
stacks of bricks on pallets under a large magnolia tree, being staged for wall renovation projects, and adjacent to one of the older sections of graves at Raleigh National Cemetery, with a few little houses across Pettis Place in the background, 1-22-11
eastern elevation of the "Green House," actually the soon-to-be-demolished and not-so-fabulous Fabius Briggs House, crumbling towards its own demise, with the cryptic letters PYLE scrawled on one of the second-floor windows, 1-31-11
Sunset View behind G&M
iron cross at the footstone of the graves of Kimbrough and Henry Warren Jones, marking their allegiance to the Confederate States of America, now oddly juxtaposed with modern suburban Raleigh in an old streetside graveyard, 12-23-10
holy shit! somebody shot Santa! 12-30-10
distinctive sign at the West Morgan Center crappy strip mall on (surprise!) West Morgan Street, 9-1-10
Grace African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1-14-11
historic Federal-style Jordan-Womble House, thoroughly adulterated by recent renovations but still lovely, on a summer afternoon, 7-24-10
Looking at the RBC Plaza construction from Wilmington St.
the entranceway of Father Price Memorial Auditorium at the former Cardinal Gibbons High School site, now sitting idle and slightly disheveld on a rainy summer day, 8-6-11
Downtown Raleigh from Western Boulevard
concrete sections of storm drain, sitting in the snow awaiting installation, 12-26-10
bright yellow façade of the Sunbeam Discount Bakery Store, dulled by the baking late afternoon sun, with promotional blurbs on the windows in the shape of little mini sunbursts, echoing the glare, 7-23-11
looking west down the Beltline from Lassiter Mill Road on a snowy day, 12-26-10
dirty, slushy snowbanks persisting in medians of South Saunders Street, 2-1-10
Extreme Makeover House
grid-like wall of steel and tinted glass at the Wake County Public Schools building, sparkling in the night lights, 8-22-11
the corridor between two closely spaced suburban houses, the one on the left had just had a huge fire, which melted the vinyl siding on the one on the right, and even killed some of the branches on the tree across the street, 6-26-09
residual piles of plowed snow, melting fast on a warm winter day but still impressive, in the parking lot at the North Ridge Country Club poolhouse, 2-7-10
one of the glassed-in stairwells at Joyner Elementary School casts a pallid glow on a drizzly, drippy evening, 3-9-11
an old delivery truck for Logan Trading Company garden center has been parked along the railroad tracks for a long time, 7-23-10
Raleigh downtown from Hammond Road
the Archdale Building glowing in the gloaming, 1-3-11
shining blue retention pond alongside The Home Depot, with ducks sitting on the dike in the middle, 12-20-10
old railroad car, now stranded and serving as the office for a used car dealer, on Laurelbrook Street in Raleigh, 12-12-10
a curious hump formed by the ridge in between two curb cuts, at the northwest corner of Lane and Salisbury Streets, 8-7-10
jade green glazed block wall panel sparkles in the morning sun at Copacabana Restaurant and Bar (the hottest spot immmediately north of New Bern Avenue), 10-21-11
westward along Hodges Street from under the Seaboard Railroad Bridge on a beautifully snowy day, 12-26-10
Vince Wood's new baseball mural on the side of an old commercial building in downtown Garner, 8-23-11
Downtown Raleigh from West Cabarrus Street
the world's most heavily fortified gas meter, protected by a tall fence, three coils of razor wire, and a "No Trespassing" sign, 12-10-10
lush clump of hardy bananas in a raised bed, accented by trailing mounds of chartreuse ornamental sweetpotato vines, 7-31-11
sunset through an interesting patchwork sky after a rainy afternoon, from across Blount Street and one of the state government parking lots, 8-26-11
a bright blue A-frame swing set, set against the lush greenery of a spring afternoon in Roberts Park, accented by off-white playground sand and drifts of clover and kousa dogwood flowers, 5-5-12
Paddington Square Shopping Center
a dazzling array of pipe fittings and plumbing parts warehoused in stacks and piles behind Triangle Mechanical Contractors, 7-20-11
fish icon appears to be belly-up in the cast-iron of the storm drain on the edge of the Walgreen's parking lot, 2-13-11
interesting chevron pattern set in the brick of the chimney at the historic Joel Lane House, 11-26-11
the classical tetrastyle portico of Lightner Funeral Home on a bright October morning, showing damage and deterioration on its left side, and an aluminum-covered walkway leading out and down to the street, 10-16-11
row of Italian cypresses on the Wilmington Street side of the Memorial Auditorium, flopped and splayed under the weight of the recent snow, 12-26-10
two dead and chopped-off maple tree trunks form a "V," making a backdrop for a lovely, intimate little garden fountain and pond, 9-18-11
barbed wire in lazy loops augments the top of a protective chainlink fence, silhouetted against a stormy night sky at the Dorothea Dix Hospital facility, 8-21-11
the chainlink-protected swimming pool at the Milner Inn sparkles in the morning sunlight, 1-16-11
classical reproductions (a.k.a. "Venus and the Penis"), gleefully out-of-place in a corner of an otherwise ordinary suburban office parking lot at Artarama headquarters, 1-10-12
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