I just began a new blog, Close Up Matchbook.  As the name implies, it a series of macro shots of matchbooks.  Most of them are from cocktail bars and restaurants from the 1960s.  Check it out!

http://closeupmatchbook.blogspot.com/

NUTS!

Well friends, this is the end.  The end of the CUC blog.  I'm moving out of Clarendon--actually, by magic of auto-post robot, I moved out about a week and a half ago--back to DC, and this is the last c-don close-up pic I have.  Like this hollow shell that used to contain hope and promise, your life will now be incomplete sans blog.  Please check back in to the site, though, as I may start a close-up photography themed blog for my new neighborhood in DC (Mt. Pleasant).  Thanks for all of your support and comments--it's been fun! 


High five!

waterfalls

Hey, remember when TLC's "Waterfalls" video was like the coolest thing ever?  Yeh, me neither.  Remember when my nickname used to be Lisa Left-Eye Lopez?  Yep, still is.

baby grapes

These look like bunches of grapes, but this little fruit is actually smaller than a dime.  Did I eat this fruit despite not knowing what it is?  Yes.  No, not really, but it did cross my mind...

copper wrap

Don't know why, but at a local construction site a half-inch wide copper tube twirled out of the ground up to about 5 feet high.  This is the close edge of the loop, and you can see how it curves up and away from us to the left, with the far coil in the background.  

splat mud

A splotch of mud on the pavement.  It's kinda cool that this doesn't exist anymore; it maybe didn't even exist within a few hours of taking this shot.  And to get all defeatist on you, this file and you and I won't be around too long from now.  I like how photography can capture these moments and stretch them out, just a bit.  Or perhaps help make new moments.

Where is This #17 Stache

OK Claredactlys, another super-fun quiz!  Where is this?  Since it's kinda obscure, I'll give two clues--this is outside, and I've had two pictures from this location in the last couple of weeks of posts.  Good luck!

NAIL nail

This is an old address sign on the side of the building next to EatBar.  From left to right: wood, old-timey nail, faded white background behind disintegrating black numbers.

greens and reds and browns

I like how there's basically only three colors in this shot, but lot's of individual items.  I also like gross bugs, 'cause I'm kinda immature.  

bouquet on the limb

Is this a long shot of a bunch of flowers on a tree, or an extreme close up of a man's boutonniere (yes, I know what that word means) worn over his Hawaiian shirt?

loop

This tangle of power lines reminds me of a roller coaster; or the an expressionist painting; or a robots veins....

draining

The drain of a water fountain after a summer shower (a rain shower, that is; being a blogger, I--of course--refuse to shower or participate in your petty social norms in the physical world {scoff}).

crying chair

I know all there is to know about the crying game.
I've had my share of the crying game.
First there are kisses, then there are sighs.
And then before you know where you are, you're saying goodbye.

One day soon, I'm gonna tell the moon about the crying game.
And if he knows, maybe he'll explain.
Why there are heartaches, why there are tears?
And what to do to stop feeling blue, when love disappears?

First there are kisses, then there are sighs.
And then before you know where you are, you're saying goodbye.

Don't want no more of the crying game.
Don't want no more of the crying game.

screw

white plastic with screw
is this haiku for ser'us?
haikus never are

a glass forest of stemware

A gaggle of wine glasses in the window of the Cracker Barrel.  This is directly next to the most ridiculous store in the world: The Container Store, which is appallingly useful to shop in despite it's silly name.

wg

Does anyone know what these are?  I see them peppered throughout Clarendon in the roads.  It's a half-dollar sized, yellow plastic thing (I think plastic) that says WG.... 

why?

Yep.  Gross and stupid.

shaded petals

I always think this flower looks shy.

Where is This? #16 PUBLIC

OK Clarendanes, where is this "public" area in C-don?  Good luck, and god speed.


The last THREE quizzes have gone unanswered, so I've added hints to each.  Here's last week's, and the week before, and the week before.  I feel like a diabolical serial killer taunting the smart-yet-unorthodox detective desperately trying to solve the case by leaving clues to my true identity and the next victim.  SUSPENSE!  

pecker

I spent 40 minutes watching a pair of woodpeckers flit about Fillmore street one morning, and this was as close as I ever got to the skiddish birds. The pecked at a large tree, a telephone poll, and one poor guy's siding on his house.