Connecting with Lisa today for this week's Creative Exchange. Thanks Lisa. I love the creative freedom your link offers.
I've been connecting with Lisa most every week...she pops up her linky on Monday and sometime mid to late week I get around to adding my post.
I'm such an anal-retentive, I must wait for my creativity to show itself. I think (no, I know) it's always there, it's just my technical, practical self I'm waiting on to get the hell out of the way so the right brain can steal the show. Good news, today the right brain is here! Bad news....what's on my right brain's mind.
Geez, I just took a quick gander at Lisa's link with the pretty blossoms, rural scenes/landscapes, and painterly textures and now I'm sharing me. Oh well; I'm going with where I'm at...still looking for/trying to understand the creative voice inside-no matter what it's whispering to my right brain. Thanks for working with me on that one. One can't lie to oneself on what comes from the heart.
Bob Brown's Service Station
This is Robert E Brown's service station (or so it says). It calls to me each time I drive past, which is usually a few times a week. I wish it wasn't what was speaking in my ear, but it is. It reminds me of how service stations used to look. It's a throw-back, old school, retro....Wanted to make sure my photo included the rubber hose that goes "ding" when a car pulls in.
The other day I HAD to take a photo of this side door. I don't know if the broken window above, the shabby appearance, the narrow-ness, the drippy rusty stains....something was saying "shoot shoot", so I did.
And then I thought "well hell....there are two doors there-normally not great composition, but they don't match and there's a tire beside them and grass poking up along the base....and dents and rust in the old metal building. I better take this too. " Might you remember when stations had restrooms along the side? I bet that's what these doors were/are for. Not wanting to go inside to find out though.
{258/365}The Office
I peered through the giant windows into the office. Holy shmoly. Multiply this by at least 20 and you'll get the idea of what's happening inside that floor to ceiling office space (with the over-sized glass windows so the whole world can see). Oooh this makes my anal-retentive brain hurt-good thing my right brain is here today. I imagine the owner knows exactly where everything is- as it looks like it's been there a long time.
Pansies on Top
Out front....the niceties have not been forgotten however, and this is how I'm getting a blossom into Lisa's link today. I love the gas pump with "Double" written in Sharpie pen as the pump is too old for current (pathetically awful) prices.
Thank you for traveling with my creative right brain to "Bob's" today. Hopefully something scenic and beautiful will call to my creative spirit next week. Have a wondeful day.