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   (2005.08.01)

Again, just what it says.

Red White GMC truck has a silver metal grill emblazoned Superior in script
   (2005.07.26)

Just what it says.

Orange car has headlamp behind flat plastic lens and a bright yellow turn signal
   (2005.07.26)

Finally took out the trash, I gather.

Black building angles away from entrance, with concrete steps, curven metal banister, and circular hole cut out of triangular angled roof
   (2005.07.19)

How do they get those giant cranes onto construction sites? They use other cranes to build them.

Crane on right side, platform of stationary crane on left
Orange crane hoists large steel panel to platform of stationary crane
   (2005.07.18)

Wow, this takes me back. Do they also still make Hakkapeliitta fog lamps and driving lamps?

Covers on twin driving lamps attached to a Mitsubishi bumper read Comet 500 Hella in Helvetica

(Hella, admittedly, fits on a lamp cover hella more conveniently than Hakkapeliitta would. And it’s a classic Helvetica usage. But are you supposed to stop your car in the pouring rain, walk out to the front bumper [at risk of being hit by another vehicle], and pull off the antimacassars just so you can switch the lights on?)

   (2005.07.11)

Who knew there was so much of interest in the topography of the ancient Lande Rovère?

Side window, roof rack, and elliptical porthole window in roof of Land Rover
Black-and-silver badge reads LAND ROVER in Silver, with a Z-like line through the two words
   (2005.07.11)
Next to a crosswalk post, a POST NO BILLS sign barely pokes through the hoardings’ bright-green paint
   (2005.07.10)

Yes, that was a giant bronze statue of an owl found in a BACK OF TRUCK.

Then of course they had to install it.

Workman on ladder leaning against retaining wall talks to other man

And now they’ll have to shut the branch down for a full day to pour additional reinforcing concrete.

Black-coloured bronze statue of owl, with four-foot wingspan, sits on rear edge of retaining wall

I joshed with the grizzled, chain-smoking sculptor that we needed a matching statue of the owl’s prey. A couple of rats, he said. No, I countered, a bunny.

   (2005.07.10)

Actually, it was a 928.

Blue Porsche 928

The lay-back (“slantnose”) headlamps were the dead giveaway – though I did photograph them ambiguously and Porsche had annoyingly diluted the design trope through reuse in 968s and a few other models I can’t track down.

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