I Ching Bricks

Urns & Black Brick - Clifton Heights

I'm always flummoxed by the neoclassical urns atop buildings in St. Louis.

Elusive black brick used here as a design element.

Baby's New Shoes

Antique Mortar Mix

Feldspar and Quartz:

Listing Utility Poles & Trees

Red Glazed Brick & Mortar

This is my first spotting of the elusive red glazed brick. It's has a deep berry color. We've all seen stained rose color mortar (right?) but this is a red mortar. It was a very exciting morning.

The bottom row of these glazed bricks shows the surface has popped off. What's beneath was fired differently and will crumble quickly.

Door Fence

Many years ago I admired a gorgeous collection of doors in Midtown/CWE that someone had used to make a fence. It was about 75 feet long. While I love the reuse to discarded doors I've deep sorrow that these quarter sawn oak doors weren't appreciated in their original use. Better here than a landfill.

Challenging Air

At dawn we're up, on bikes, and flowing.

Please consider the gorgeous Spike Japan Blog. Pachiguy has harvested my breath http://spikejapan.wordpress.com/spike-hokkaido-2/muroran-the-town-that-time-forgot/

Props to Christopher Thiemet for naming the bricks shown below snowflake. If you're a long time reader you may recall I give name to bricks patterns.

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