July 6, 2006

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  I keep mentioning that I haven't taken many photographs lately, so I thought I'd throw creativity to the wind (what little wind we've had during this heatwave anyway) and just go take some pictures, in my own back yard, as it were. I won't thrill you with a neatly tended garden, however. We rarely go outside, perhaps every few months or so to mow the lawn. I'll call this PhotoPost "Neglected". My theme is "areas which nobody looks at".

  
  

   

  
  

  First, a peek inside my penny jar. This isn't really "neglected". It's been around since I broke the original penny jar, which was a glass five gallon water cooler jar, in 1987 and replaced it with the plastic one I now use. It sits near the door of my bedroom, and I throw my pennies in it. This is a shot from the opening of the jar looking in at the top layer of about 8 inches of pennies saved over a 20 year period. It's pretty heavy.

  
  

   

  
  

  And I thought I'd just cleaned this up! This is the thatch of weeds running along the side of the house. I took a weedeater to this area about two months ago. (Or was that THREE months ago.) Joel tells me he's mowing the back yard, but he seems to have forgotten this area.

  
  

   

  
  

  The ex manager used to store the paint cans for the four units in the back of my house. He's been replaced by two management services since he dropped this nice specimen off in the back yard. I threw away some of the cans that split and spilled their paint in the soil over by Joel's bedroom.

  
  

   

  
  

  A nifty little view through the hole in the wooden gate attached to the weed ridden throughway along the side of the house. The branches are from previously overgrown bottlebrush trees which the neighborkids used to hide in. I asked the latest owner to cut most of the growth.

  
  

   

  
  

  I promised in return to clean up this growth, and I did, just a few years, er, months ago. This is the view the ants have of our gas meter.

  
  

   

  
  

  Joel and I have lived in our house about 15 years now. Originally, as I've written many times, this was to be a "temporary" place for each of us, between places. But we've stayed here, and stayed here, and stayed here. I installed my DirecTV back in 1996. Since this is a rental house, I passed the cable through the window and into the house, instead of punching any holes in the wall. I shot this from below the coils of RF cable before they pass into the kitchen window, which was also a kitty window for a while.

  
  

   

  
  

  Here is a truly neglectful scene. I started buying refrigerator magnets when we moved in, and I got quite a collection, but I will shamefully admit that neither one of us has cleaned Joel's refrigerator. Now, I do clean my washer and dryer, but I don't like to go into "Joel's" kitchen. I didn't "flash clean" anything in this series. Since it's "neglected", all the blog visitors can plainly see the rusted refrigerator door and the dust bunnies on the magnets. (Note to myself, get these into one of MY rooms)

  
  

   

  
  

  Lastly, this isn't neglected. It's a shot of my framed "Coat of Arms" my ex girlfriend Pat got for me back when we were going together. It's hanging on the door to my bedroom. And because I felt as if I weren't finished, here is a side view of those pennies. How much money do you think I have here? Is it in the hundreds?

  
  

   

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