This is a close-up of a whale skull on display at Point Reyes in Northern California.

Even closer up of the whale skull on display at Point Reyes, Northern California.

(with a bit of flash...oops)

From a very worn floor with flaking varnish.

Wood floor tile.

This will soon edge out "Nothing Big" in the "Greatest Hits," I'm sure.

This was a branch above my head. Along Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA, where there was a lot of construction work recently (see "Done for the day"); maybe that's what wounded this poor tree.

DeLiLaH asked for a wide angle view of the tree, so I went to get one, and noticed something I hadn't before. It's in the original photo too, but here's a better shot. Looks like a face, doesn't it? I figured it might be fun for someone to play with here. I'm uploading a few shots of this tree now.

(Actually, in the thumbnail I saw while uploading this, it almost looked like a Munsch-style painting!)

It's sideways. I didn't bother rotating the photo 'cause anyone who wants to use it can if they want!

For the backgrounds & textures collab (by way of my albums).

Technically a pole.

For texture/background use.

I didn't bother to rotate this. Obviously, if you use it, you can rotate it any which way!

I know, I know, more tree bark. ;)

This one struck me for the variety of colors and light-to-dark shading (the way the sun was).

This is kinda disgusting—it looks like one of those scrubby sponges after cleaning a burnt-on pan, doesn't it? It's the remnants of vines that covered a surface (as it happens, on an abandoned building in Oakland, CA) but are now dead. At any rate, it could give some texture to something, right?

Shot from across the street with a zoom lens. I suppose I could've just photographed the scrubby side of my kitchen sponge!

Isn't this lovely?

Wood floor in the pews, Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit.

Deteriorating paint on a deteriorating wood panel on the deteriorated window of a deteriorating building near Chene Park, Detroit.

On a shop on Jos. Campau in Hamtramck.

Just what you were looking for, right? ;)

The bark of a Michigan pine tree (taken in Detroit).

From the porch of a fixer-upper house.