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19 October 2006
Photo Friday: (Hey, it's Friday somewhere.) This week's theme is My Hometown.
This is the corner of Maple and Main in my hometown of Marlton, New Jersey. When I was 10 years old, a drawing I did was selected to grace the cover of the program for the town's tricentennial celebration. As part of that honor, I got to lay a brick at a ceremony for the new gazebo. See that mulch and those little plants? That's where the gazebo was. It only lasted a few months before some high school kid hanging out there with his friends dropped a lit cigarette through the floorboards and the whole thing burned down. ≡ Click to see image ≡
Here's a much older photo of Main Street (I don't know when it's from, any guesses?), taken at the same intersection, but looking down Main. ≡ Click to see image ≡
These are the only photos I have that shows anything at all of where I live. If nothing else this theme reminded me that I should take more photographs of my town.
The house across the street from me. I smeared green dishwashing liquid on a plastic bag and used it as a filter to take this shot.
Oh yeah - in my first photo, that dead tree on the left that looks like a lightning bolt coming out of the sky...the day after I took that photo, it got struck by a real lightning bolt and had to be cut down.
I just updated my "Where I Live" set, after a walk into the village today. It's gradually being absorbed by the sprawl of suburban east London, but still retains its villagey charm.
Pictures of the old cemetery in my town. (And I'm going to try to get some pictures of other areas around town today such as my grade school, the house I grew up in, the park I used to play at, the city pool, etc.)
The next two I like because of the juxtaposition; One is all formal and crowded, but the next shows that, afterall, one man's funeral is the same as anyone else's--someone has to clean up afterwards, put away the flowers, take the horses back to the barn, etc. I think it also illustrates the point that, while DC is a city of monuments and parades and such, it's also a place where real people have jobs to do.
This photo was taken so close to my house that the view is indistinguishable from what I used to see from the backyard. The Superstition Mountains, in Apache Junction, Arizona.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
