Portrait of an Outhouse

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

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[pearlstreet]

Who says landscape photography isn't art?!? 

[graeme]

Who says landscape photography isn't art?!? 

+1

Are you familiar with Dr Who, Eric?

[JNB_Rare]

Inspired by your trip to Nova Scotia? 

Nova Scotia's Outhouse Museum (Sherman Hines Photographer)

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Sharon, Thank you!

Graeme, Yes, I used to follow Dr. Who regularly several years ago. I haven't checked out the new female Dr. yet, but I did immediately think of the Tardis when I saw this outhouse. Perhaps I should have called it "Portrait of a Tardis."

JNB_Rare, This was actually back home in Massachusetts last week. I'll have to check on the museum on my next trip to Nova Scotia.

-Eric

[Rajan Parrikar]

Fine image. I'm surprised nobody has complained that the outhouse is too centred.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Fine image. I'm surprised nobody has complained that the outhouse is too centred.

I've been hoping they would complain. I enjoy causing distress to the rule followers.   

[donbga]

I've been hoping they would complain. I enjoy causing distress to the rule followers.   

The photo is of a porta-pottie not a true outhouse. Outhouses are not constructed of plastic.

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

Perhaps I should have called it "Portrait of a Tardis."

Perhaps if the good doctor started to use an outside toilet of this type for his/her inter dimensional time travels, then shouldn't it be renamed as the "Turdis"?

Doctor poo...?

I'll get my coat...

[Telecaster]

The thumbnail version definitely shouts "TARDIS!" in my ears. 

Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space
Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style
Totally And Radically Driving In Space

-Dave-

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Perhaps if the good doctor started to use an outside toilet of this type for his/her inter dimensional time travels, then shouldn't it be renamed as the "Turdis"?

Doctor poo...?

I'll get my coat...

   

[JNB_Rare]

Is that a cemetery in the background, and a ghost over on the right? 

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Is that a cemetery in the background, and a ghost over on the right? 

In the background is simply a grove of trees on a farm, which also owns the tardis, er, outhouse.
The ghost on the right is the result of my sloppy PS-work to get rid of a few trees to emphasize the symmetry. I should try to clean it up.

[RSL]

That's not an outhouse, Eric. An "outhouse" is made of wood, often shingled, and has a picture of a quarter moon on the door! I know because I used one during the summers when I was a kid in northern Michigan. I don't have time at the moment to search for a picture of one, but I may get time before long and show y'all what a real outhouse looks like.

[RSL]

Here's the real thing -- from Lake City, Colorado. No moon on the door, but everything else is in place.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

You've got to watch out for these vandals, Russ. They'll steal the moon right off of your door!

Have you ever read Chic Sale's delightful  monologue about a builder of outhouses, called "The Specialist." One line in it I recall is something about "your typical eight family three-holer."
You would enjoy it.

Eric

P.S. Here is a link to a couple of excerpts: http://www.chicsale.net/books/specialist/