Showing posts with label WWC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWC. Show all posts

15 December 2009

WWC - 1/2 Portion

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You, too, can join WWC. You'll find information over at Jay's place, on Facebook or on Flickr.

This week’s words are Americana and Sports. I was going to attempt to dazzle you with an excuse as to why I have absolutely NOTHING for sports, but then remembered y'all are too smart for that kind of nonsense. Bottom line? I remembered WWC Sunday morning and had no photo opps for sports.

There are times when I hate living in such a small town - the Post Office incident comes to mind - and other times that I absolutely wouldn't live anywhere else. This town is the epitome of Americana, from the acres of farm land (*NOTE* These first three pictures are not mine but ones I found when doing a Google image search - all are local) ...


... to the water towers ...


... to the institution of the local drive in that doesn't take debit or credit cards, but will gladly accept your check ...


Due to the move and the absence of laundry facilities in my 6-plex, I've been spending Sunday mornings in the laundromat. Now, I've seen some pretty hi-tech laundromats in bigger cities, but ours? Well, it's purely Americana, from the simple rows of washers and dryers, half of which have little notes with "OUT OF ORDER" scrawled on them (*NOTE* These pictures are mine, taken with my handy-dandy cell phone camera)


... to the Suds 'n Such machine that includes a box of Borax as one of the $0.50 options ...


... and the row of wood chairs recovered from the bowling alley that closed down almost 10 years ago ...


And if you have a few minutes, and are lucky enough to catch the barber during the five hours he works each week, you can run next door and have Jim attend to your needs!



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10 November 2009

WWC - Fold and People

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You, too, can join WWC. You'll find information over at Jay's place, on Facebook or on Flickr.

This week’s words are Fold and People. I had a bit of an issue with the cell phone this week. I inadvertently changed the settings on the size of the pic from my usual 1280 x 960 resolution to the wimpy 320 x 240 resolution. Oops!

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It seems there is always laundry to fold


My Pepto Bismol folders. Every year we change the color of the folders we use at work. These make me need Pepto Bismol every time I look at them.


The proper way to fold a towel (and yes, there is a proper way!)


A wall full of people I know


... and a wall full of people I don't know


Where the little people slave away


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27 October 2009

WWC - "F" and Altered

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His satire is relentless, but life caught up with him this weekend and he landed himself a spot in a semi-private room where the sheets are changed daily, all of his meals are served to him in bed and no one lets him sleep for more than 47 minutes at a time!

Get well soon Matt-Man! Thoughts and prayers are with you!



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You, too, can join WWC. You'll find information over at Jay's place, on Facebook or on Flickr.

This week’s words are “Altered” and “F.” Again, these are cell phone pictures and all but one of them was altered (I really enjoy playing with pixels) with a little help from paint.net and picnik. Any guesses which photo wasn't altered?

Following the fall harvester. I was behind this guy for about 5 miles with no way to pass him as the harvester took up almost the entire road!


I am lucky enough to have Food in the pantry. Can you spot the SPAM?



Altered reflection



Food sign - this is a landmark sign in my community. Home of the best broasted chicken in the Chicagoland area!


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20 October 2009

WWC - Sit and Fall

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I am just having a ton of fun with the Weekly Word Challenge! You can have all of this fun too by joining WWC over at Jay's place, on Facebook or on Flickr.

This week's words were SIT and FALL. I decided to go with the fall that was not seasonal because ... well ... because I took most of these photos during my all-nighter Friday night and since we were indoors it was difficult to find seasonal fall photo opps!


When I'm sitting on a bar stool, my feet SIT on the bar rail


Not a bad place to SIT


Lots of places to SIT


Where bowling balls SIT to wait for their trip down the alley


They didn't let me FALL when I climbed to the top!


That zebra striped bag looks like it's about to FALL


I hope the giant noodles don't FALL on my head!


No one wants to FALL down these steps!


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13 October 2009

WWC - "S" and Water

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It's that time again ... that time when I get out the poor quality cell phone camera and attempt to make art with it!

Wanna play? No nekkidness involved! You can join WWC over at Jay's place, on Facebook or on Flickr.


You can always find a photo opp in the women's restroom!


Mmmmmm ... BakerS Square pie ...


Anyone remember the old days when there were letter prefixes to phone numbers that identified where you lived? Now we use them to spell words.


Frozen water on a windshield (it was COLD this weekend)


Lots of bottled water in little bottles ...


... and lots of bottled water in big bottles


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07 October 2009

WWC - Warmth and Depth

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Remember last week when I mentioned I was considering participating in WWC with nothing more than my cell phone camera? I probably should have read the "rules" before making the assumption that photos were posted on Wednesday ... because they are posted on Tuesday. Oops!

Yeah ... well ... I'm just living dangerously these days. And yes, all photos were taken with my "old school" 1.3 megapixel LG Chocolate camera phone. No editing other than a little bit of cropping!

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I love the WARMTH of fall colors



The sun attempts to peek through the clouds and provide a little WARMTH



Raspberry Zinger Tea provides WARMTH to my tummy



Pots and pans need WARMTH to do their job



I wonder if that is my prince in the DEPTHs of the egress well



What you'll find in the DEPTHs of my junk drawer


I always wanted to have a story about the DEPTHs of the football field bleachers


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