Single Use Only
More from last week’s trip to Port Renfrew. This, I think, is the proverbial hot seat – you know, the one they threaten you with if you are acting out of line. I can tell you one thing though, this hot seat is not in hell, since the land all around was frozen over. While I took these shots my eldest son, 6′ 2″ and wearing rubber boots, stomped hard on frozen puddles trying to break through the ice. I tried to get him to sit down on this chair, but without luck – perhaps his white sweater had something to do with it, not to mention the camera pointed his way.
I have come to notice chairs from seeing the photos in Melinda Green Harvey’s blog, which often features abandoned specimens. Though I don’t recall seeing one of hers that is scorched by anything other than the Texan sun.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50/1.4 lens, ISO200.
burnt embers 
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Port Renfrew is one of my favorite places. Don’t recall that chair though. A little upholstery and it is ready for the living room.
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Well, maybe you sat in it during its salad days, before it was homeless and on the street, and not quite so starved looking.
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Nice blend of colours between the rusted chair and the colours of the landscape. Your son was very wise not to attempt to sit on this chair, I suspect a further ‘single use’ might have well resulted in collapse of said chair!
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Thanks Andy – the rust tinges on the Red Alder at this time of year are some of my favourite colours – they go well with the chair for sure.
The chair felt very sturdy, still rotated smoothly, rocked nicely. At least that was my pitch, but it did not work. Looks CAN be deceiving, but perhaps not this time.
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I hope you have secured the rights to chair photography from MGH. I think she has this registered.
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Well, if figured since this chair is nearly burnt to embers that I didn’t need to both. If you think I ought to, then I guess I will ask, and hope to get her in a good mood.
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Good luck with that.
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🙂
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Wait a minute – what’s this about hoping to get me in a good mood?! I am always in a good mood. You could confirm that with my family, only unfortunately that are all…uh…busy right now, and don’t have time for the interruption.
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Well, I figured you have snow and cold. Good moods might be hard to find in Texas right now. I am sure you noticed that there is another chair in my blog today. I made it very small though so you would not feel too encroached upon. Hope that is OK.
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Well, it IS cold, but I am trying not to let get to me… Perhaps my spouse has another opinion (which is why we won’t ask him) but I think I am doing very well re. maintaining a good mood.
I did see today’s chair. OH! Let’s start a blog called Today’s Chair…!
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All you need to do is rename One Day | One Image and that should do the trick. Besides which, I think I have run out of chair images. But maybe Ashley’s Syncopated Eyeball could be brought into the fold – it seems to see chairs almost as often as your two (assumption) eyes do.
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Two. Yes I have two eyes. Four, if you count my glasses. Six, if you count the bifocals. (Although, technically I have progressive lenses, so I guess that ups the eye-count to infinity?)
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They call them “progressive” in TX? I suppose that is better than “liberal lenses”.
Is it mandatory that progressive lenses come tinted in pink?
Until 10 years ago (and for about 90 years) one of the two main political parties in Canada was called the Progressive Conservative Party. As far as I can tell, the conservative part was that it took them 90 years to get up the guts to rationalise their name. The progressive part was that the Progressives acquiesced to having their part of the name dropped. For a very short but wonderfully hilarious time they changed their name to the Conservative Reform Alliance Party, resulting in the best ever acronym in Canadian politics.
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Very nice chair and a good find.
Check this out – on my poetry/photography blog today is: a chair. (http://bit.ly/1dcqbLH) Coincidence?!
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Statistically not a coincidence. The chances of coinciding with a chair on the same day in one of your blogs is well over 50%, isn’t it? I remember that photo from before – rather lonely I thought.
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That’s a good point. If I just had ONE blog, the chance would decrease significantly. But since I have ALL THOSE BLOGS now…
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Well actually, that is only true if your proportions of chair photos are different on different blogs. If chairs creep in everywhere, then one blog of five may not make any difference. And chairs do creep in everywhere as far as I can see.
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The only place that chairs don’t seem to making an appearance are on my writing blog, but I am sure it’s only a matter of time before they start showing up over there as well….
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If you are having trouble getting your writing to stick with an audience (and this I doubt), then chairs may be the missing and magical ingredient.
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The main problem on that particular blog is that I sort of forget to post things on it….
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