I was wrong, Phil. They are of three colours -- cream, blue, and rust. They are also variations on a theme; they are more or less complicated diagrams like those in an introductory geometry textbook. Oh, well, I have a project now -- go photograph them all. I gave been able to find nothing about who designed them.

I hadn't thought of the bike stand as an echo of the air conditioner, so thanks for pointing that out, Bob. The bike stands seem to be variations on a theme -- the illustrations in introductory geometry textbooks. I was wrong to tell Phil they are all the same colour; they are cream, blue, and rust. Anyway, a project to photograph them all is in order. The one here is the si,plest of the lot.

Thanks, Keith. I've been going by this place for some time but shuddered to think what might be going on there. Anyway, it seems to be a pet supply store -- a pet shop without pets.

You've touched on issue dear to my heart -- the popular idea that pictures can be reduced to text. John Berger, for example, says explicitly that any photograph can be reduced to a message. That's a fine idea for an instructional manual, but some of us have the wacky idea that a photograph's visual characteristics play a role in our enjoyment of it. Whether there are words to describe our appreciation of visual characteristics is a crucial question that I hadn't thought about, so thanks for bringing up the question,

Until recently we were told to admire images because they showed us how to be like the people selling or using it -- more sophisticated or more moral (supposedly). All of a sudden anyone can display images and people are actually paying attention to what they look like. Maybe we don't have the words because we've never been allowed to come up with any.

Thanks for putting up with my pseud analysis here. I have the same problem with finding words, though. I often don't comment about a photo because I don't know why I like it.

Goed gedaan John