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In the state of Arizona, the leaves fall off the trees in January. So that's when we collect. We missed the January yard waste pick up this year so mid-February we had the task of taking the 45+ bags of leaves out to the curb for pick-up. Jasper is a good helper. (BTW: bagging the leaves is the method prescribed by the community). Feb 15 and the trees are already well budded out.
In-laws visiting this weekend; turned on the garbage disposal to find it was jammed, just made a humming sound; this little guy was one of the things I found inside...
Beautiful but it's trash... the bicycle was found on a heap of garbage, and the beautiful building is a garbage holding/sorting facility that my office designed.
Belle poubelle!
We don't give much notice to the ubiquitous garbage truck, yet without it, life would get pretty interesting within a few days.
In Elgin Park, there was only one such truck, owned by "Pip" Paulson, and he made the rounds tirelessly, 5 days a week.
All of the town's castoffs were taken down by the river, at a place called Bunkie's Landing. This used to be a notorious area for rum running and other nefarious activities, back in the 1920's and '30s, but times had changed and the town's dump was now there.
Back to "Pip" Paulson; he was a valued citizen who performed a very necessary task that kept the town running smoothly. He bought himself a new Buick in 1948, seen here, which he kept in tip top shape and remained his only car until he passed away in 1965.
A hail and hearty Hurrah! for the "sanitary engineers" throughout the world. This photo is dedicated to you.
As for the model...the business end of the garbage truck, in the photo, was handmade, based on an early '50s design. It is constructed of styrene plastic and found objects.
On a different note...
Father's Day is coming up soon and the publisher
of the Elgin Park book, Animal Inc., is offering free shipping this week.
The code word is:
FATHERSDAY2016
Here is a link to the Animal Inc. webpage:
Garbage performs at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC.
I just really love the lighting effect here. :)
Thanks for looking and for your support.
Taken on 21 July 2017 and uploaded 31 December 2024.
I don't remember taking this...but as I was editing it and wondering what it might be I was overcome by the thought that, while I may appear to have flippantly suggested in previous uploads that there were portals to strange places on Tilbury's mystic Clinker Beach - - - perhaps I was being guided by a hidden power and that, on this day, when a year draws to a close before another begins, that power behooves that I reveal ...no, it's a piece of glass, perhaps the base of a pudding bowl, shot with a Raynox attachment and suffering some unanticipated vignetting and needing a little tweaking in Photoshop and I had better shut up before I reveal something so momentous that.....
Happy New Year to everyone, especially those I follow and who give me so much pleasure and fun. Charlie ❤
8134 and 8152 slow for crew relief at Moss Vale with empty Crisps Creek to Banksmeadow garbage train 2120.
2020-03-09 Pacific National 8134-8152 Moss Vale 2120
The famous 'garbage trains' on the CJ meter-gauge lines are luckily still running nowaday, though not anymore with ex-RhB traction. Near La Ferrière, December 2013