Scratch-Off Across the Street from School

The curb used to be yellow, the losing ticket catches your eye. You lean over the curb,focus, see equal thirds in the composition. Shoot. Texture, line, shape, color, space, form. Art elements are everywhere in the world.

Losing lottery ticket discarded curbside. Peeling yellow paint on concrete.
It looks like someone placed it there for me to find, the curb paint scratched off, too.

One Good Thing in Winter

Citrus!   Dr. B. sends Steve a box of Indian River Grapefruit for Christmas, all pink inside. R prefers Tangelos. The kids love Clementines. Lemons might be my favorite.  Last week our principal had snacks for the teachers. We had to stay at school – make up time.  Bummed to stay an extra 3 hours at the end of the day but greeted by this box. The blinds for the library windows are on-order so the sun came out and fell right on the fruit.  I peeled the skin and bent it so the oil was on my fingers.    I ordered  the book Oranges by John McPhee after reading his quote (3-8-10) , his comparing California and Florida oranges.  Abstracts for May 7 & 14 1966 Articles in the New Yorker.

A box of oranges to stave off winter blues
A box of oranges to stave off winter blues.

Baby Doll Flies Like a Flag on the Moon

Where a house used to be, unshoveled steps to an empty lot.  An iron pipe for a rail. What’s left of it.  On the way to school I look up and see this bizarre sight.  Pulled over, flashers on, catch of the day, one block from school Thursday morning.  Had to look up the definition of stock-still

a rubber baby doll stuck on an iron rail on an abandoned lot a block from school
Just like the flag planted on the moon, immobile.

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 Saw on the Way to School This Morning

The angle of the frozen water layered with the multicolored stones was a good find.

Garbage on the Sidewalk -Corner of Arlington Ave and Cologne Street

Deflated Inflatable on Way Home from School

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

Pink Toilet Waiting in the Snow

On the Way to School This Morning

Rock Salt, Wreath and a Shovel Handle

Trash Across the Street from School Today

Vintage Hardware Store Pittsburgh

One of the few remaining. Not eaten up by the giants.  Get a key made, some glass cut, how about a real mop, some rock salt?  Shop now.  Two blocks from school last Thursday afternoon when the sun came out.

Memories of Childhood   The hardware store.
Arlington Avenue. Will see about interior shots with permission of owner.

2009 Yellow Pages Delivered to Church Closed since 2005-

St. Henry’s Pittsburgh closed in August 2005.  New Yellow Pages left at the front door  have been sitting there for a time.

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