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May 23, 2008 |
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Construction
FOUND by J.D
in Concord, California
I wonder why someone wanted to take a picture of this spot.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
My eyes hurt...
It looks like the picture taker was 'trying' to focus in on their 18-wheeler truck???
That's most likely why this photo was FOUND and not kept!
I feel this way every Monday morning.
i think i'm drunk.
Apparently Monet had a Polaroid camera along with his paintbrushes.
...and his eyesight at the end of his life. (continuation of Librarian's comment)
Dang! trying to continue someone's comment before coffee and without glasses is not a good idea. I read it wrong. Oups.
I thought Librarian wrote "apparently the photographer had Monet's paintbrushes..."
Anyway, this is exactly how the world looks to me when I go out to pick up the morning paper without my glasses, which I just did.
Why someone wanted to take a picture of this spot: Maybe he went to get in the car to go to work and it was GONE! He could not believe his eyes, that the car had been stolen, so he took a picture of the spot where it had been parked.
It looks like a person in an orange (?) tee shirt slinking around in the back of the picture- perhaps there had been some theft in the area, so some do-gooder citizen took it upon him/herself to take pictures of all the unfamiliar faces wandering about. (I have a series of pictures from a time period when lunching high schoolers were stealing outgoing mail out of elderly peoples' mailboxes in my neighborhood. Helped nab the little jerks, too.)
I'm not sure why the Finder called it "construction," but I suppose the vehicle on the left looks like a small trailer that might be full of tools, or it could be a portable generator.
Looks to me like a tree has fallen down, possibly on the vehicle. or I haven't had my coffee yet?
Clover, we seem to have very similar degrees of near-sightedness. (Don't you love looking at Christmas lights without your glasses on? Many people will never get to experience that.)
this reminds me of what i see about 2 minutes after leaving the house, the moment i realize i forgot to put my glasses on.
Mona, I hope you go back to get them before getting behind the wheel.
Maynard is right... A tree has fallen and can't get up.
I've seen that plenty of times in and out of focus.
Depends on the time of day, John. If its still daylight, i won't, i can see well enough. After dusk, tho, i will. (HOLY CRAP, WHRE THE HELL DID THAT CAR COME FROM)
Why would a tree that size be that close to a house? Planning, people! It's important.
I can't get my brain to believe it's a tree, though.
The vehicle also looks like a truck with one of those tree chipper things on a trailer. (I used to run one) Or is my imagination running away with things?
Maybe I should change my sign-in name to "Milhouse".
Or "Piggy". (Obscure reference.)
I concur with Maynard that it is a downed tree, it looks like a up-ended shallow root ball near the white house or wall. I first thought it was one of those Royal Palms like you see in southern Florida, but it may be decidu... crap... leafy. (too early to go to dictionary.com to look it up)
Ok, do any others in the Blind As a Bat Club have have the ability to micro-focus on tiny things if you take your glasses off? I can't function in the real world without glasses but if I take them off, I could just about analysis fingerprints.
@John, please keep "John".
I agree with the downed tree/tree chipper assessment. Also because the dude in orange. There's a company called Asplundh (isn't that a strange word?) that does that and their guys all wear orange. In orange, they look liked the jail's inmates.
I'm sure it's just me, but when I see an Asplundh truck, I always call them Ass Spelunker.
can i keep john? please, please.. he followed me home.
I don't eat much and I AM house trained, for the most part.
But do you shed?
I have a bunch of similar pictures - but in focus - taken when Hurricane Hugo came through here.
I remember the drive home from the optometrist's office after I got my glasses (2nd grade. Nerd much?), being totally amazed that you could tell the trees have individual leaves.
@Curious, I remember that drive home very well.
. . . and those leaves.
I had the Magic Glasses ride in 4th grade. It opened a whole new world.
John, please clarify "housebroken for the most part." Do you chew the furniture? (Note: first spelled housebroken as houseborken and find that to be a fun and lovely word.)
Freonz, I like "houseborken". I think that's what I'll be.
@squinting Uhhh..pretty sure the tree wasn't that big when the house was built. Trees grow.
Houseborken is one of the Swedish Chef's specialties. It's usually served with the house dressing.
I call them "Ass Plunder".
I'll have mine with a side of lutefisk!
Uuhhhhmm yeah, Smallbear. Thanks for the astute observation and analysis.
But didn't they know back in the olden days (when big tree was but a wee sapling) that trees grow bigger?
That's why a little PLANNING was called for. Geddit?
Yeah...I agree with some of the comments...I think a tree has fallen and the picture was taken for insurance purposes.
Houseborken is the best. Do you put hot sauce on yours?
The houseborken is usually served flambe' with a side Hooter's wings and bleu cheese.
It looks like a tree has fallen, but I can't tell if it's ONto a vehicle.
Also, the car on the left seems to be pulling one of those Uhaul attachable trailers. Maybe somebody is moving in/out ... or trying to move some of their items to prevent damage from the tree and/or water damage if there's now a hole in the roof.
Althoughhhh, on 2nd glance, that COULD be one of those wood-chipper carts pulled behind a tree-removal service truck. So, maybe this was a planned tree removal and they just need to saw and chip the wood. The homeowner is giddy their gruesome tree is finally gone, so they're taking pictures in excitement- jumping up and down, but then realizing that makes the pictures too blurry.
Perhaps the picture is blurry becase the camera was also damaged in whatever wind and water event that took the tree down? Soggy Polaroids do not take crisp pictures.
I get the impression the pic is taken thru the window of a moving vehicle, which would explain the blurriness...well some of it. If they were leaning their elbow on the frame of the window, the vibrations might travel up their arm, and blur the shot. They certainly are on a potholed macadam road or street. And that certainly is a truck of some kind on the right...or do I mean left. Whatever.
i really couldn't care much less than i do for this photo. kudos to those of you who concerned yourselves with it. next.
wheee! It's a slide coming off the top of an ice cream truck!
Lars, I agree. I just don't get excited about the Found photos. Well, there's always tomorrow.
I love that song, Blurry!
I feel so relieved to know I'm not the only one that can see tiny stuff UPCLOSE without my glasses on. And I walked home from the eye doc in fourth grade, also amazed about the leaves on the trees. The fact that you could read the sign on the front of the bar on the corner was also awe inspiring. As for this picture, eh... first thing I did was take off the glasses. Didn't help much.
@Rolling my squinting eyes: Well IME humans are notoriously bad at long term planning. They just have trouble seeing to far into the future, especially past their lifetimes. 'tis the reason the world is in such a sorry state, IMO. Us, ursines aren't much better at looking ahead either.;)
Didn't mean to sound as sarcastic as I did, I'm sorry.:)
I think that the picture is blurry because at the very moment the photographer pushed the button, he was hit by a car.
Re: tree... Maybe EITHER:
- the bldg. was built with the tree there, but lookin' like an insignificant little bush (shrub kind of bush)OR
- whoever built the structure said "what the heck; whenever that thing gets big enough to cause trouble, I'll be long gone!"
Re: blurriness of photo
@ Terrie --
Maybe this was taken during an earthquake!?!
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AND, I can just imagine the person who took this photo, saying "Dang! This picture is awful!! I can't even see the reason I took it! I'll toss this photo and take another another one."
Little did the photo-taker imagine that, at some point in time, 40 people from all around the world would study his/her discarded photo and share comments on it!
No doubt, Camelia. It' probably a eucalyptus tree too.
James, can we get a time check and a focus button?
This photo looks like it's been photoshopped in watercolor mode.
John, I LOVE looking at Christmas lights without my glasses. They look like lollipops. Street lights from an airplane look like dandelion foofoos.
james has forsaken us, Nightingale
Nightingale! What is a foofoo? It sounds dirty.
Does that make me a bad person?
Seriously though, I've never heard that before in my life. Is it a puff? A poof? Or something unrelated? Will someone punch me if I call them one?
does it have anything to do with Little Bunny foo foo, hoppin through the forest?
Or a foo foo girlie drink, like Malibu and OJ?
Dear Schneh and cowering in the corner,
You know when a dandelion goes to seed, and the yellow flower transforms into a round fluffy mass of seeds? And you're 4 years old and you cannot resist plucking the stem and blowing the seeds to kingdom come? That's a foofoo.
To atone for your sins, for the remainder of your days left on earth, you must tell every person you meet who has the urge to spread dandelion seeds this way, "That's called a foofoo!"
(I bet John knew what I meant.) 8-)
@Curious in Charlotte, I got my first glasses in 5th grade, but I needed them before that. My little sister, far more myopic than I, got hers a couple of years earlier. When I borrowed hers to better see the view, my mother warned me that I would ruin my eyes by putting on my sister's glasses. Maybe that's what happened, but I don't think it works that way. When I insisted that I needed glasses, my mother thought I was just jealous and trying to get attention. Finally when I got my glasses - 1960's cool white cat-eye frames with rind stones - my sister and I started this saying that we continue to laugh over to this day:
Oh! There are leaves on the trees!
Oh! There are blades of grass!
You know, before this day's worth of comments, I'd never considered "how" some people see the world before they get glasses- It's interesting that you all have these stories of your amazement at realizing that there are individual leaves on the trees, and infividual blades of grass. I haven't had the need for glasses (yet?) so I find that whole concept fascinating. And looking at Xmas tree lights sans glasses- I always used to like to 'faze out' my focus, or squint to make the lights look funky and interesting. (fuzzy, or streaky, or surrounded by crystalline halos)
@ Enjoying a New...
I'm now a bit -uh- vision-challenged. It makes for some very entertaining first glances -- I see some odd typos, and upon double-take, I start laughing (those around me, of course, don't understand). Sorry I can't remember any now. Some are very risque even!
@ camelia - i saw a sign at a bookstore clearance that (i thought) said Teachers and Lesbians 10% off....
librarians.
Yeah Mona Lisa!! There's one now! (one of the funny typos seen by the hard-of-seeing). :-)
Last time my dad came to visit we went to the bookstore and he came over and kind of freaked out, he said, "There's a book over there called Pimp Your Kids" we told him that the book is actually called "Pimp Your Kicks" it's a fancy shmancy shoelace book. He insisted it said, "Pimp Your Kids" until we took him back over there to have a closer look, he was embarrassed, but relieved.
Mona... Terrie... If we look at these instances correctly (well, Terrie's Dad & me 'n' Mona), it makes for a more entertaining life.
Unfortunately for me -- I often see the drawbacks .. can't read the frigging directions on beauty products; classified ads?, telephone directories?, maps?... Sheesh!