California catastrophe

This California redwoods pen was broken in my move from Toronto to London. The pen is upside down. Sorry. There is a deer floating in it.

It was very traumatic to open the box containing my pens and to find them simply placed upright in their stands. I felt lucky more weren't broken.

I think I bought this pen in Seattle in Pike Street Market in 2004.

Seattle sights

Seattle is one of the most pleasant cities I've visited. The pens pictured above represent the Space Needle, Monorail, Pike Place Market and Seattle Art Museum.

The Space Needle and the Monorail are modernist science fiction sites.

Pike Street market proved to be a pen bonanza, although I didn't buy any of these pens there. I got a couple of California floaty pens and a pen filled with volcanic ash from Mount St. Helens.