lacey

What does this shape remind you of?

tippity top

This is a shot looking directly down on a particularly tall, skinny flower.  The very tip is in focus, and the body quickly recedes into a blurred nothingness of orange and green.

just like my dreams...

...deflated.  Not really.  Other metaphors for this shot?

up, up, and away

Yep, same flower.  Super fuzzy, but I like how the crest of the flower pedals kinda burst towards the top of the shot.

parched hydrant

Why are there so many different colored fire hydrants in Arlington--seriously!  Orange, yellow, combos of the two....  OK, that's really about the extent of it, but I'm used to a red-hydrant town where 'mericans are true 'merica.

say your prayers

Fallout shelter sign on the side of a church (not that either would probably help much in a nuclear event).  I got to wondering about these signs and found a few interesting sites.  Turns out, this sign is out of code!  "In awarding the contract for design of the sign ... the services of a psychologist be obtained to recommend a visual symbol that could be easily identified and remembered. The sign had to meet the psychological requirements of simplicity, easy identification, retention and arresting color combination .... The color combination, yellow and black, is considered as the most easily identified attention getter by psychologists in the graphic arts industry."