teething …

Okum – my building, my way…

Silver Okum 1910 building at the Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA. Built in 1910 by Ben Silver a trader in oakum – only he spelled it okum. What is oakum? Hemp-like fibers combined with pitch/tar for caulking in shipbuilding. Picking oakum was a staple of Victorian workhouses and penal institutions. Now the building houses restaurants and retail.

if the leaf’s too dull …

… stick it into an electrical outlet for an hour. Voila! Bright! (Heh, heh … what, me oversaturate?)