What I Found Right in the City

For all your taxidermy needs, right in Carrick along Brownsville Road.  Seeing this surprised me.

What do you want to be when you grow up? No student ever replied "taxidermist!"

Time Flying in Stained Glass (2)

It was a different kind of day. Testing. I was a helper-outer on the second floor  the first two periods.  When I returned to the art room I came down a stairwell I don’t use. The window with the sun coming through. An hourglass with wings?  All those inventors and scientists. I wondered what ones the students would know. It was my prep. I went to the art room and got my camera.  I remember a statue of Howe in Seaside Park in Bridgeport CT where I went to college.  Remembered I lived on Howe St. when we first moved to Pittsburgh. I had to look up McCormick. Cyrus.  And George Stephenson.  Good thing it wasn’t Jeopardy with the category of inventors.  An unexpected find at school today. The hourglass with wings struck me. Scroll down to see the detail shot.

Coming down the stairs
What I Found at School Today.

Behind Giant Eagle on Shakespeare Street

I wrote and illustrated a little book for the students called You Need to Read.  It illustrates reasons you’d need to read–sorting baggage tags for the different destinations at the airport, a firefighter finding a street name on the city map, a chef reading a recipe, a patient reading the medicine label, high voltage and thin ice. Love the exclamation point.

The importance of reading signs, what to dump where?
I am sure there was a reason someone wrote this on the dumpster but who read it?

Unexpected Window Decor in the Snow

You park your car, walk down the street and find the unexpected.taxidermist delight, stuffed squirrel on a branch
Vase of Flowers or Figurine? Taxidermist Handiwork Mounted on a Branch.

TV Still Life in the Snow

What I Found on the Way Home From SchoolYou turn on Spring St and there it is.  Shot of the day, waiting for me.
I counted fifteen recycle bags. The discarded television looks really heavy to me.

Waiting for pickup.  Any idea what year the Television set was made?

What I Found in the Street

Took my bag into the coffee shop today as I keep reading about all these car break ins and so when I came out I put my coffee down and pulled out my camera to catch this baby shoe by the curb.

single baby shoe by the curb- who lost you? what I saw on the way to school
Single Baby Shoe by the Curb-Who Lost You?

Deflated Inflatable on Way Home from School

One Last Santa Spring Street Porch Rooftop Thursday 1/28/10