From last week’s adventure with Shelly in New York City
Hershey’s: New Photo
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Reality Check: Fiction Friday
The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Photo copyright Ted Strutz
Bottom of the Food Chain
In welding school, Tony imagined being on jobs like on the TV commercials: sitting on steel beams above the skyline, sparks flying, the building boom signaling a strong economy.
That didn’t happen. His assignments came from the bottom of the welding food chain: repair jobs for businesses barely hanging on.
He hated this job site: he cleaned it up each night; it was trashed out every morning. Punks. Thank goodness I’ll finish today, he thought. They can keep their discarded tires and toilets and find someone else to abuse.
Only today held a surprise for Tony: flowers in the toilet.
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An Inviting Garden
Ticka’s garden is always so inviting. I love photographing it.
From Zilker Garden
A flower from my visit to Zilker Botanical Garden a few years ago. It is time to visit the garden again, to see what beautiful flowers are in bloom now. I will also have to check their policy as to whether or not they allow artists to paint on site.
Local Traffic
I saw this truck turn the corner behind me. At a safe place on the side of the road, I pulled over to be able to photograph it as it went by. I got lucky and it stopped just behind me. Yes, I have been wanting a photograph of this type for quite some time. I’d still like one where the hay load is on a semi, but a lot of things I want to photograph don’t present themselves in safe traffic conditions.
Let me just say that I’d have a lot more photographs of interesting things if it weren’t a tad inconvenient for me to come to a complete halt in the middle of the highway, pop up through my moon roof with my camera, saying “Oh, look at that!”
It's a long story ... 
