The murals on the restaurant walls were dull red and bright silver: a Ray Bradbury Mars, with the silver spires of an ancient Martian city nestling among red sands.

WITH its modest Victorian architecture and silver spire, the small Catholic church by the railroad tracks could be any rural house of worship, but today it's a crime scene in Tacoma, Wash.

And by evening they saw the silver spires of slender Bombasharna, a city that was the glory of the coast.

Then night came down and hid the silver spires, and Shard slipped on through the gathering darkness until by midnight the piratic ship lay under the seaward battlements.

Moonlight made the tiers of spruce and pine below her look like fantastical castles with silver spires.

At night, Mrs. afSandeberg soaks in the hot tub on the upper deck under the stars; from there she can look across to the silver spires of Seattle.

The ship stood up on the plain like an isolated silver spire.

The churches became larger as we continued west, stone instead of wood, with tall silver spires.

Gray stone churches with silver spires.

The promo won a silver spire for the Best Short Film at the San Francisco film festival, and was nominated for the best video award at the 1998 MTV awards.