Travel theme: Paper

I’ve been elbow deep in wrapping paper and have just come up for air…

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…to have a look for some paper-filled photos from my travels, starting off with this fabulous newsagents at First and Pike in Seattle’s Pike Place Market.

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Out in West Seattle there’s a whole series of murals worth checking out, including this one depicting the frenzy of press day at the West Seattle Herald of yore.

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The well-worn pages of a book that accompanied me on my first road trip across America.

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A paper dress provides an interesting canvas for budding artists at New York‘s Figment Festival.

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The menu in the dining car of the Lake Shore Limited – a throwback to another era – and a welcome respite from a traumatic travel experience.

Lake Shore Limited Amtrak USA train journey

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xxx Ailsa

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. – William Wordsworth

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. – Gunter Grass

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.  – Vincent Van Gogh

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