Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Seen Around Town

Here is a collection of photos I have taken while driving and walking around Starkville, Mississippi. Click in the image for a larger version.


The really interesting thing about this intersection is that, the ambiguous directional signals aside, straight on through is a legal move if you are in the right hand lane. At least I think it is.



2009 Subdivision of the year, compared to WHAT? This place has an 8-foot wall around the entire neighborhood, plus a gate and a guardhouse.



Cool inverted pentagrams on a downtown building, perhaps a Masonic symbol.


Inverted pentagrams in context. Sadly, this building on Main Street is now empty.



A concrete wall in front of Cadence Bank bears the ghostly inscription "BANK OF COMMERCE"


The Entrance to Cadence Bank.


Cadance Bank.I like modernism, and I love this building. Bauhaus anyone?



The Regions Bank building is directly across from Cadence Bank, and the two are having some kind of twentieth-century conversation. "Let's take the classical motif of the arcade and stretch it vertically four stories. Now we have post-modernism!"


Majestic lions guard the entrance to a residence from their juniper nests.


Oak leaf and laurel motif in the Oddfellows Cemetary



Blue foamy water flows from the a car wash into Hollis Creek at Acadamy Road.



The architect who built this office cluster put his name and number on a little sign right next to the broad flume that delivers the parking lot surface runoff directly into Hollis Creek.