Picspam!

[auntiemeesh]

Oh, the things you see while waiting for a bus.

Last month, I got up way early too catch a bus downtown to take the train to Harrisburg for poppy_queen's baby shower. While waiting for the bus at 6am, I noticed an advertisement for one of the local newspapers. The smaller of the two local newspapers, with a strong focus on Pittsburgh sports and news, very little national or international coverage, as far as I can tell without actually ever reading it. This advert was proudly proclaiming that its circulation was up, while the bigger newspaper's circulation was down. Accompanying this claim was a stack of newspapers, as seen below.



It's not a great picture, I took it with my phone at 6am, but you can probably see clearly enough that the newspapers shown are in, what, German? So the newspaper publisher is either proudly proclaiming that it's German readership is up, or really proud of it's sales in Germany. *shrugs*

Then, this past weekend, I happened to be waiting for a bus in Oakland. There was some work going on down in the sewer lines under the street, and so there was a truck and some guys hanging out on the street.



Here, take a closer look:



Yep, it's a rubber hand, covered in (one would assume) fake blood, hanging from a utility belt on the side of the truck. I love my city. I really do



This butterfly just flew up, landed on the sidewalk at my feet and then just sat there posing for my. I could not resist and took many pictures.



Zoe causes lots of mayhem in our house, but she's pretty darn adorable. Here she is, posing in the underlining of my mattress, which she had just ripped down so that she could crawl inside (to my shame, I have yet to fix it).



The parasol for my big, giant costume extravaganza.



Zoe again. She is very fond of the boxes that I've accumulated the past few weeks.



I had some fortune cookies on the kitchen table. Mal was intrigued. Being the social guy he is, he brought the cookie into the living room to do his sniffing.



I love the fabric I got for my gown, but it's just barely off white and the pattern is so subtle it doesn't really show to good effect in the pics I took of it. But I also really love the fabric I got to make the corset. It's a beautiful upholstery grade damask that's a fairly understated blue with a lively pattern.



And finally, since I've finally figured out how to get the photos off my phone and onto the computer, some pics of the on-ice display at the Penguins game eve11 and I went to in March.

Comments

[eve11]

Oh cool, I forgot you'd gotten pictures at the hockey game!

And yeah, Ivy did the same thing with our boxspring. What is it with kitties?

PS your parasol is definitely the exact one from the episode! We will not match because mine isn't quite the same but it'll still be cool. So says I!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Kitties sure do like dark, hidden places. Zoe is crouched in her little boxspring cave right now, scared because I was opening and closing the door to get the trash out. Poor little scaredycat.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I love your photos and am interested in your city as I have a good friend who lives there, who isn't into photography.Your cats are adorable.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[lyda-pearl.livejournal.com]

thanks for the pics. look at all that beautiful ice!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I know! You just want to get down there and skate on it, don't ya?

[whtmtnwmn.livejournal.com]

Great shots! I'm impressed with the quality of your camera/phone.
=D

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It does take a pretty good picture, doesn't it?

[shirebound]

What a gorgous parasol!

the underlining of my mattress, which she had just ripped down so that she could crawl inside

Awwww, clever kitty. :)

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

She is a very clever kitty. :)

[antbee362.livejournal.com]

Love the kitty pics. Yuengling likes boxes alot too, in fact she has one in the cellar where she retreats when need be.
The butterfly is beautiful.
It looks like the workers are hard at work on the cell phones too!
Wish I knew how to get the pictures off my cell phone but I think it won't happen since I can't/don't email from my phone.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I just have a usb cable to hook up to my laptop, same as with my regular camera. Which is a good thing, since the only other way to get them is to email them to myself, and I don't want to pay to enable email on my phone.

[feaxede-steorra.livejournal.com]

I love the fabric and the parasol :-)

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

They're very pretty, aren't they?

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

Wow. When you say Picspam you aren't kidding! Many cool photos you have there!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I've apparently been saving up photos for awhile, now, lol.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

I love the butterfly and the truck is funny. Here there is a garbage truck with the text "shit happens" on the backside, lol. And the unbrella and fabric is lovely. i'm sure your gown will be amazing. :)