6/18/14
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. 
6/16/14
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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6/10/14
I get around
I'm up before dawn and am riding by 7 A.M.
No commentary. Way too busy for all that.
The blog you should be reading is called Spike Japan:
http://spikejapan.wordpress.com/
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