garbage – Ruth E. Hendricks

What Laura Found

I love how my family contributes to the blog. Thanks Laura

March 10, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Columbus OH, family, garbage, guest blog, neighborhood, photography, postaday, toilet 10 Comments

Look What Laura Found

I love that she saw it and thought of me and took a picture and sent it.

November 12, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, Columbus OH, couch, family, garbage, neighborhood, photography, postaday 4 Comments

A Sweet Find by Maura

Not a couch.

Take a look at what granddaughter Maura texted me today. Unexpected.

Not the run of the mill couch or any old chair!

September 5, 2025September 5, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Columbus OH, discard, garbage, granddaughter, guest blog, ice cream freezer, postaday 15 Comments

It’s Been a While

Tuesday morning on the way to breakfast with my friend Vincie, spotted this couch on the curb. I pulled over in the next block, got out and took the photo.

She asked me what’s with the attraction of photographing the abandoned furniture? These discards?

It’s hard to explain in words but I can tell you they make me feel something.

I think if the furniture could speak, there would be many stories.

I realize they are inanimate objects, unwanted and worn out.

They can’t speak so I have to use my imagination of what they have seen and endured.

Pittsburgh and Columbus have the most couches at the curbs. Chairs, too.

August 21, 2025 by Ruth Categories: furniture, PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, city scene, couch, curb, garbage, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, summer 6 Comments

Look what Maura found

I received a text from my granddaughter Maura with a few different angles of this collection of household discards. I chose this one to post.

Thanks Maura. Nice sighting!

June 1, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Guest BlogTags: Columbus OH, discards, garbage, granddaughter, photography, postaday, stove, trash 11 Comments

Sit a Spell, Curbside

Laura sent me this photo she took in Columbus, Ohio. It’s a good one.

I appreciate my family and friends seeing curbside discards, thinking of me and sharing a photo. I love the light on this one.

March 23, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, chair, Columbus OH, curbside, discards, garbage, guest blog, neighborhood, photography, postaday 12 Comments

Today is a Good Day the Box says

“Always take pics of furniture but ever furniture boxes?” Granddaughter Maura wrote in a text with this photo

I responded “why not?”

Guest blogger today is Maura. Oh she managed to send an abandoned chair too

And the white and blue box says “today is a good day.”

January 22, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: box, chair, Columbus OH, family, Furniture, garbage, guest blog, photography, postaday 6 Comments

She was so excited.

I opened my eyes and there was a couch at the curb.

Abandoned furniture. A favorite for the collection.

Three views

If couches could talk……

It was still there later in the day

August 28, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: abandoned furniture, couch, curb, garbage, granddaughter, neighborhood, New York City, photography, postaday, sidewalk, West Village 6 Comments

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