Duck Gazebo...

Text to follow after three sketches...

Cellophane (For Alicia Keyes)...

I saw her on YouTube,

she was looking like a sweet

refrain, wrapped in cellophane

on a freight train, going down the aisles

making musical change for the passengers,

"Ka-ching, Ka-ching, Ka-ching."

AND she could sing!

And play piano too!

And I was a parched man,

in the desert sand, looking for a band

and she was a full waterbottle

of cranberry/apple...

("...three conductors and 24 sacks of mail...")

©Peter Bray, 2/13/10 All rights reserved

except those @Steve Goodman,

"Good Morning, America"

Graphics in the Road...

This entry under construction...

Some of the fun stuff

I've sketched or created

from the tip of the pen...

Three City Blocks Wide (On Geranium Lane)...

He decided to add to his Blog

every thought, action, and reaction

he'd ever had, every nuance, whisper,

clandestine talking with the squirrels

over how NOT to eat from the backyard

birdfeeder, like a mockingbird

with a squawk, how NOT to be scrub jay-like

eating upside down their stolen

breakfast treats...Well, this took a long time,

as you might well imagine,

so the Internet people said

they could give him space

at a premium provided that he DID NOT

sprinkle birdseed on their Welcoming mat...

And he agreed...So far his space is

3-city blocks wide somewhere

out in space where Pluto's pathway

intersects with Geranium Lane...

©Peter Bray, 2/10/10 All rights reserved

Halloween Walk 2009...

Down where seagulls fly and ducks walk,
I was trying to bring some corporate 'bling
to the waterfront, I shined my

Wingtip loafers with tassels,

made sure my Dockers were

unstained and stunning,

my blue suede jacket and

black T-shirt as poetically focused

as possible, then I added the pumpkin head,

dried flowers, miscellaneous feathers,

and the multicolored, feathered boa;

a page straight out of

the Bechtel SF office Handbook,
pages 1984-'94, see for yourself.
The species continues to evolve:
http://www.peterbray.org/odyssey.html

Peter Bray, Handyman, poet/writer...
Blog: http://taprootandaniseweed.blogspot.com
And check out "The A Capella Handyman,"
every Friday in The Benicia Herald,
Benicia, CA

I Added Zoom to the Room...

As Halloween approached

that first year in the City,

I figured it was time to add

some Zoom to the Room...

So I found this yellow, paper,

toxics cleanup suit in a Army-Navy

Surplus store up Mission Street...

Somebody else in our department

organized the Contest,

I just showed up, AND, guess what?

I won "Pick of the Patch"!

AND I was kept around

as a Graphics Manager

for 9 more seasons...

Pretty cool, huh?

This graphic I also did

in the Los Medanos class in 2002...

©Peter Bray, 2/9/10 All rights reserved

I Landed in San Francisco...

It was too great a title

not to at least start

and add some graphics to...

These I did years later

in a web design class

at Los Medanos College in Pittsburgh

in 2002, while learning animation

which I thought I might add to my

post-Bechtel SF career...

Interestingly enough, by this time

I was tiptoe-ing out of my 50's

and into my 60's, they were getting

closer by the day...I'll be back

to expand the story...

or maybe not...Let your imagination

fill in the blanks...

After the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989

I rode the ferry to the City for 6 months.

It was awesome...

©Peter Bray, 2/9/10 All rights reserved

Bodega Bay Song...

Well, I don't smoke and I rarely drink,

the most I do is sit and think,

sweat and fret and worry hard

about how to make the payments

on my car...

But I ain't worrying on this day,

'cause we're down at Bodega Bay!

Bodega Bay, Bodega Bay, Bodega Bayyyyy...

Bodega...Bay!

Maybe see a woman, maybe catch a fish,

maybe make a big ol' wish!

But I ain't worrying on this day,

'cause we're down at Bodega Bay...

Bodega Bay, Bodega Bay, Bodega Bayyyyy...

Bodega...Bay!

No, No, No...I ain't worryin' and I ain't skeered,

though my friends think I'm pretty weird!

But I ain't worryin' on this day,

'cause we're down at Bodega Bay...

Bodega Bay, Bodega Bay, Bodega Bayyyy,

Bodega...Bay!

©Peter Bray, 1985 & 2020 All rights reserved

In The Beginning...

That's all there was,

and it was a kick in the pants...

And I still had time

for high school homework...

Amazing...

Las Lomas, 1956-'60

Walnut Creek, CA

(Good enough to get me into

UC Berkeley in the Fall of '63)