garbage – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

What I Couldn’t Throw Out

First posted almost 8 years ago. Mark is now 42.

The kids all grown up and gone now, I’m still going through stuff in my house. Trying to clean it all out.

These animals with their faces, ugh.

Do you find it easy to throw things out?

From 2010.

Purchased in 1977 in New York City at Creative Playthings. Rubbery farm animals. Nice to clutch and carry around when you’re almost two. I bought them for baby Mark who’s 34 now. Maybe the paint is unsafe for the grandchildren, plus they have a hole in their stomach so whatever dirt and mold in the basement the past 20 years is living inside them. I put them in the contractor bag to drag to the curb and I swear the cow’s eyes looked at me.

I took them out.

Photographed them.

Their faces have the loveliest expressions.

June 10, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: childhood, children, family, farm animals, garbage, toys, trash 25 Comments

Christmas Tree and Couch, Curbside

Clintonville. On Calumet. In Columbus.

No kidding.

That’s a lot of Cs.

I saw this Christmas Tree and the couch waiting for pick up. Some people put their trees out right after Christmas.

Maybe the trees have up since Thanksgiving and the needles are dropping like crazy.

January 1, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Christmas Tree, Clintonville, Columbus OH, couch, discards, family, garbage, neighborhood, photography, postaday, trash, weather 21 Comments

Guaranteed Distraction?

“What about you: what is guaranteed to distract you? What is your “Ooh, shiny!”?Weekly Photo Challenge

Garbage. Unexpected.

I’m fascinated by trash. Litter, too. Funny thing is, I find it difficult to throw things away. Here are previously featured found garbage photos. I even did a Garbology post. “the study of a community or culture by analyzing its waste.”

Here’s a sample of my photos of cat trees, toilets, chairs, aquarium, couches, champagne bottles, old televisions.

August 17, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: discards, distraction, garbage, garbology, photography, postaday, shiny, television, toilet, trash 9 Comments

We Were Going to Use It

We were going to use it

Waiting for garbage day pick-up.

Do you know someone who purchased exercise equipment and regretted it later?

Or joined a gym and after an initial effort, quit going BUT failed to resign so paid a monthly fee for years? Hmmmmmmm

May 10, 2017May 10, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Health and fitness, PhotographyTags: exercise, exercise equipment, garbage, gym, health, photography, physical fitness, postaday, trash 9 Comments

Making it Easier to Be Green

Target – making it easy to be green

March 28, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: aluminum, city scene, East Liberty, environment, garbage, green, photography, Pittsburgh, plastic bags, postaday, recycle, recycling, refuse, Target, trash cellphone, waste, weekly photo challenge 7 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

October 11, 2016 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Wedding, Wordless WednesdayTags: autumn, city sidewalk, couch, garbage, iPhone photography, microwave, photography, postaday, sidewalk, trash, walk, wordless wednesday 10 Comments

24 Inch Ice Cream Cone, Guest Blog

Waiting for recycle truck pick-up, New York City. Sent by my sister 7-4-16 via cell phone.

What a great find. Thanks, Mary.

July 5, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: advertising, garbage, guest blog, humor, ice cream cone, New York City, photography, plastic, postaday, recycling, sidewalk 12 Comments

What I Need to do at My House

Saw the clean-outs on the curb and thought I should do the same- tackle my third floor and basement! Take it to the curb

Blogging curbside in Bloomfield after breakfast.