Look Both Ways

The amaryllis we received from Joan and Peter bloomed today. Here is the first flower just after noon today.

The four contact sheets are available at the pages below. These are large images so they take a little time to load. (If you click on the image after it loads you will have the image on a page with nothing else.)

Sheets: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

RSS icon used by Firefox and recently adopted by Microsoft.

Water fountain in my office building.

Here's the drain. Was a drain like this the inspiration for the icon? It needs to be flipped and simplified, but it looks like a template to me. Even the icon's color scheme seems to have been influenced by this mechanical prototype.

The water fountain device is by Elkay, though it seems to be an obsolete model.