and brass…
Foot fetish
It started out innocently enough with some cool manhole covers. Now it’s become a ReavesCarter-Providence vacation tradition.
Access Ubud
Another city, another creative way to get below the sidewalk
Chimp Selfie
It was cool to come across one of the utility boxes from the list of these I first saw way back when.
The Uber of Manhole Covers
Whatever business you’re in these days, it seems like your pitch is or should be “the Uber of …”
Check. (Or Tick as we say down here)
Suited to a T
I saw this cover the other day and was puzzled… some kind of Hebrew foundry?
But no…
I still don’t know what foundry this is, but at least I will be able to find it in some directory!
Rotorua redux
A few shots from last week’s visit to Rotorua.
Conquer or Die
Not sure why Clan MacDougall would lay claim to this utility box in Parnell…
Brittle
Cast iron and its slightly more modern cousin ductile iron played a really important part in building our urban infrastructure.
About the only thing wrong with these materials is that if you smack them hard enough they break.
What phone box???
Just in time for spring and the rose garden down the street to start blooming, the utility box in front of our building got a cool new look.
Our house is the middle one in the picture, with the low planters in front of the gate.
Epic
I was pretty excited, I imagine more than most people, to come across this manhole cover on Nuffield Street in Newmarket.
The quote is from Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, which I got to see during my awesome trip to the Ashland Shakespeare Festival as a Pasadena City College student more than 30 years ago.
Haven’t googled enough yet to know what it means…
Grafton Cemetery
One apartment we considered would have made us neighbors with this coolly creepy old cemetery.
I appeal to your sense of decency
If you look at sewer drains, you see a lot of variations on this theme… don’t put motor oil or whatever here, because it ends up polluting some body of water.
In this case, I thought “national estuary” was a nice touch, because im not sure how much sympathy there would have been for plain old Galveston Bay.
