- Moldering leaves under an autumn maple canopy
- Busted vehicles overrun by blackberry vines
- Mother nature reclaiming abandoned buildings
- Old porcelain dolls with missing eyes and bald spots
- Musty, decomposing books, preferably with cracked spines (is there a word describing old book smell?)
- Victorian and worn advertisements painted on the sides of brick buildings
- The crackle of old tube amps
- Rustbucket boats anchored mid-bay due to lack of moorage fees
- Skips, hisses and pops in old vinyl (I miss records)
- Ankle-busting alleys
- Beach glass and washed up pill bottles
- Ecce Homo by Elías García Martínez/ Cecilia Giménez
- The sound of water pouring over an old, leaf-studded gutter
- Baseballs split at the seam from overuse
- Unravelling afghans made by sweet grannies that don't know how crazy the colors are due to cataracts or glaucoma
- Shipyard trophy toppers from the 40s that no one appreciated, so now I own
- Crumbling brick anything
- Verdigris anything
- Bugs encapsulated in amber
- Old windowpanes
- Humming florescent fixtures casting an odd light
- Peeling, crumbling adverts on a telephone pole
- Peeling long strips of old varnish of exposed benches
- Tobacco stained wall of a dive bar
- Split wood on totem poles
- Old logging equipment clogging greasyspoon walls
- Taxidermy that wears a festive hat despite losing hair and dignity
- Spindrift and shredded semaphores
- Neglected lawns ambushed by dandelions
- Moss and ferns living on rotting, fallen old growth
- Rusty hinges and turrets in dilpidated bunkers
- Tarnished costume jewelry with missing rhinestones
- Spindly cracks in an often used coffee mug
dec 16 2012 ∞
mar 24 2013 +