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Almost all the photos I post are of things I own. They were taken with a Minolta ProShot MN67Z camera that I also own.
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The screw cap to my favorite water bottle. The threads are made of green plastic. The outer rim is gray plastic. The sealing washer is black. The whole assembly measures about an inch and three-quarters across. The translucent green bottle it seals holds 24 oz. of water. I'm told that screw caps like this have been around for about 175 years. I've had this one for just a fraction of that time. Despite its relative youth, I've grown quite fond of it. There's so much of reality that I have no control over. Having the ability to fill a bottle with water, screw the top closed, and know that the water isn't going to leak out counts as a major victory over the forces of chaos, entropy, and evil. I savor that victory every day.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Bottom view of a store-bought cherry tomato. About 1" in diameter, rather red in color, and - to my eye, at least - quite intelligent looking. That's why I spent quite a bit of time attempting to teach it to talk. I know that may sound a bit strange, but I've met quite a few people in my life who have not looked intelligent at all, yet somehow managed to spew words like a verbal version of Old Faithful. Alas, my efforts came to nought. Sometimes you just have to take the loss and move on to trying to teach an orange to sing. (I DID manage to teach it how to fall off a table... once. But it moves me to tears to think about it - so I won't.)
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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A pack of 75 round sticky notes. Bright yellow. About 3" in diameter. Made by Simona. Very pretty. Very nice. They're everything you might ever want in a sticky note - except they don't stick. Not very well, anyway. If I put them on my wall calendar I need to slap on some duct tape to get them to stay. If I put them on a wall I need to grab my hammer and a nail (or two). Do I want to leave a note in a book I'm reading? Well, time to find my staple gun! Needless to say, this is a less than optimal situation. If they were square or rectangular, I would have tossed them in the trash a long time ago. As luck would have it, however, they're round. Perfectly round. Beautifully round! They may not stick to anything, but . . . I'm afraid I'm stuck on them. *Sigh*
December 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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My electric meter (slightly modified in an attempt to keep myself awake while contemplating it).
December 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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This is the nameplate on my new furnace. I post it here not as an endorsement of the furnace but of the nameplate. As I mentioned in my decibel meter post of about 12 days ago, this furnace runs LOUD. The nameplate is much quieter. In fact, it is virtually silent - at least when I'm around. If it chooses to be noisy when I'm not around, well, that's fine with me. I'd probably be ok with it being a bit noisy occasionally when I am around just because I'm rather fond of its 1940s/1950s design vibe - but that's just between you and me. It also happens to be 3.5" in diameter - which I think is about the perfect diameter for a thing to be. And I like the red, black, and silver color combination. Hmmmm.... Perhaps I'll buy another furnace just for the nameplate!
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Regional store brand knock-off version of a Polident denture cleaning tablet. It's about three-quarters of an inch in diameter and sports a random blue and white speckled pattern. I don't use these myself but I like to keep some on hand in case I get a few elderly trick-or-treaters on Halloween who aren't interested in candy. The bad news is I forgot to turn my porch light on this Halloween so no one came to my door. The good news is that these tablets will probably keep until next Halloween unless I learn they make great Fourth of July sparklers when glued onto a stick and ignited.
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Up close view of a one-inch-wide googly eye. Googly eyes, of course, have three layers: a round white base, a smaller free-moving black circle, and a clear bubble top that reduces the odds of our losing the small black circle when we try to scare small children with what looks like a detached eyeball. The game show "Family Feud" once asked "Name something you always have in your refrigerator," to which I immediately yelled out "Googly eyes!" The silly people in the room with me at the time laughed and vehemently insisted that one does not need to keep googly eyes cold to keep them fresh. "I know that!" I assured them. "I hide them in the fridge to keep them safe from burglars!" Well, that shut them up in a hurry. (I wish it was always that easy!)
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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The large central control button on the remote control for my new dining room LED ceiling light. It has easy to read black graphics on a white background. It also has the power to not only turn my light on and off but to adjust the brightness (from very dim to blinding) and the color (from soft blue to cool white to warm yellow). AND it can also turn on and off the deep orange "night light" that's recessed around the rim. I've never had so much power over a light before - and all from the comfort of my chair! I'm surprised it isn't illegal. Or maybe it is?? *Rushing to go play with it some more before someone comes to take it away from me*
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Top view of my bottle of vitamin D gummies. Each gummy allegedly provides 2000 international units (50 mcg) of D3 but some days it only tastes like 1978 international units at best. It's supposed to help keep me happy during the cold, dark months of winter but I think a good photo or two helps more. If you've shared a good photo lately, thanks! I'll try to return the favor by posting at least one good photo of my own sometime this month.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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A spool of green garden twine that I'm keeping with me at all times. Someday the snow WILL melt. Someday the cold WILL be replaced by warmth. Someday the sun WILL come out again. And if that day happens to be tomorrow, I WILL be prepared to tie up my plantings. OH! *Making a note to get plantings as soon as they're available*
December 6, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Top view of the business end of a corn cob pipe. About an inch in diameter. Although it was sold as a training pipe and not as a decoration, I bought it fully intending to put it in the mouth of a jack-o'-lantern for Halloween - then didn't. Maybe next year. In the meantime I shall fantasize about transporting it back in time to my youth in the hope that my elementary school teachers will think my answers to their questions much more sophisticated as I strut about with a pipe in my hand.
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Photograph of the red burning bush, the yellow sweetgum tree, and the black metal arbor in my back yard at the height of autumn after it was transformed into a kaleidoscopic image using a free online program. Purists may say, "Hey - wait a minute! Digital manipulation is a lying abomination!" but those who know me know that this is the way my back yard actually looked to me after my second glass of wine.
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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The gray/tan felt-covered turntable of a 1946 Western Auto Supply Co. AM radio/phonograph combination (True Tone Model D-1170-B). It has a spiffy wooden case that's almost a perfect cube. I've often enjoyed looking at this turntable and trying to imagine what records people may have played on it almost 80 years ago now. One night recently while I was looking at it much longer than usual, a wispy, ghostly answer came to me: "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens." I haven't dared to look at it since. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hH77m_rZdA
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Top view of an opaque plastic storage container with its blue plastic lid off. The container is about 5.75" in diameter. Inside it is a fair amount of chopped and dried parsley. I do not know how old this parsley is. It could be a year old. It could be ten years old. Maybe twenty. Probably not thirty, but I wouldn't bet on it. All I know is that I like it much better in my spaghetti sauce than gold, frankincense, or myrrh. (Making a note of this in case I'm ever tempted to take a gift to a new-born messiah and there isn't time to buy some Lego bricks.)
December 2, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Orange-yellow connection to a standard garden hose found opposite the top nozzly part of a 32 oz. bottle of Spectracide Weed Stop. Water from the hose mixes with the herbicide in the bottle and is sprayed out over the lawn to kill 250 different weeds (including crabgrass). I apply it just once a year to maybe half my lawn. I hate it. I just don't have the killer instinct necessary to pull this off with any pleasure or grace. But all my friends and neighbors refused to adopt my weeds despite being asked repeatedly! The "Free Weeds" ad I put in my local newspaper and posted online drew NO response. My county doesn't have a no-kill weed shelter. An armed park ranger stopped me when I tried to release my weeds back into the wild at a local park. I really, REALLY didn't want to have to kill them. But my society left me no choice. If the dandelion ever goes extinct, blame me. Until then, I'll be trying to redeem myself by serving as a foster parent to a wilted bag of lettuce I rescued from my grocery store's dumpster.
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Bottom view of a 14 oz. can of Ocean Spray's jellied cranberry sauce as of two weeks ago. You know - it's the sauce that slips out onto a plate with the imprint of the can's ribs still showing on the side. I'd intended to photograph a slice of that after I opened it up on Thursday, but... well... ummm... I can't seem to find it. The search continues. I suspect burglars must have stolen it. Or aliens. Maybe ghosts? It's a real mystery! Maybe I should call the police....
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Close-up view of the microphone on the top of my sound level meter (Toptes model TS-501 B). The buff metal microphone is about half an inch in diameter and gives every sound its choice of 19 holes to slip into. I bought it last summer after buying a new forced air furnace/AC unit. That unit was louder than expected. How loud? Well - thanks to this meter - I discovered that it was about 80 decibels in my central hallway where the cold air duct is, or about as loud as a truck. Fortunately, a technician was able to reduce the blower speed enough to bring that down to 70 decibels - about the same loudness as city car traffic. Not perfect, but better than it was. And I only had to yell at the technician at about the loudness of a helicopter (100 decibels) before he understood what my problem was! (I'd been prepared to go as loud as a 130 decibel jet engine even though my yodeling coach urged me to save that for the Christmas concert.)
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Top view of a toothbrush holder made out of light blue translucent plastic. About 5" tall and 2.5" wide with 4 holes for brushes. NOTE: As we go through life the best things we'll ever own come to us at various times. The best shoes I ever had, for example, came to me when I was 13 - and are now long gone. The best car I ever had was two cars ago. It gives me great pleasure to know that this is the best toothbrush holder I've ever had and am ever likely to have - and I still have it! It's neither a memory nor something to anticipate but fully present NOW. That makes me smile whenever I think about it - so I think about it often. If I could only figure out a way to retrieve the best haircut I ever had (March 24, 2007) my life would be almost perfect!
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Thanksgiving! Time to bring out my wooden napkin ring. About an inch and three-quarters wide by an inch and an eighth deep, it's just the thing to add a touch of class to the traditional Flintstones paper napkin I carefully roll and place in it. Someday I hope to buy more so that the other members of my family can experience the joy it brings me. Until then, well... they get first dibs on that thing called wine.
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Top view of a 10" high and 5.25" wide pewter-colored metal lantern. The top has 4 equally spaced vent holes, each with a center cut-out star motif. There's also a metal hook loop in the very center for hanging. The mesh-caged area below the top and extending to the bottom protects a votive candle in the base from breezes and curious fingers. Made in India. I've had it a long time now but have never used it. Using it is on my bucket list of things to do before I die, though. I've penciled that in for Sept 19, 2035. (I'm pretty committed to that date unless something more important comes up.)
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Twister spinner (back side). Black plastic center piece holds the spinner in place. Black and gray writing on a two-tone gray spiral background has suggestions for how to make the game more interesting. I liked the "scream really loudly for ten seconds" suggestion - but then I remembered that I've been screaming really loudly for the last 9 years, so... maybe it's time to finally give "shake your butt" a try. (Maybe after I've had a nap....)
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Twister game spinner (2012 version). 10" in diameter. Made in China for Hasbro. It's been a long time since I've attempted to play it. Seeing it again yesterday, however, prompted a dream last night in which I got down on the famous plastic floor mat and attempted to out-maneuver a color-blind octopus. It did not go well for either of us!
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Blue plastic cap. Maybe it once sealed a milk jug. Maybe it once crowned the top of a bottle of juice. I found it on the paved trail of a local park. It was alone. Abandoned. And so I took its picture - from a distance lest it proved diseased. I post it here now as a stand-in for all the small lost and forgotten rounds our species makes and then discards or misplaces without much thought. You are NOT forgotten, little ones! No matter how dark the night above you. No matter how deep of a landfill you find yourselves buried in. I would photograph each and every one of you if I could. As it is, know that your roundness has NOT been forgotten and that part of you lives on in the sun, the moon, and every Dixie cup I take a sip out of when I brush my teeth.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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4" grapefruit (uncut). As perfectly round as the earth itself. 4" grapefruit (cut in half). As perfectly cut in half as the earth (if the earth was perfectly cut in half).
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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48" vinyl patio table cover on the top of my 48" metal patio table. Eagle-eyed observers will note that the cover has a marble pattern. I had to choose between this pattern and one with a "Hello Kitty" theme. I think I made the right choice - except when I wake up in the middle of the night filled with doubt. (Fortunately, I'm almost always able to cry myself back to sleep.)
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM