A Bad Weekend

Sorry, but the Outskirts of Suburbia will be on a short hiatus. Friday night my computer crashed. Saturday I took pictures at the annual Easter Egg hunt. I left there to go to to a charity basketball game but my flash card was nearly full. So I put in a fresh card. Camera reads, "Error". That's right, my computer and my camera crashed within 14 hours of each other. The book says to reformat the card but I will lose more than a hundred pictures. Hopefully I'm back in service by next weekend. Wish me luck.

Live Burn Revisited

Just a quick Fireday Friday post with some more pictures from the live burn training at Franklin County Public Safety Center near Chambersburg.

The Streets of Chinatown

Today we have some of my various pictures of the markets in Chinatown, NYC. They sell stuff out here that is deserving of it's own television show. The first picture shows various dried mushrooms. Picture number two is a meat market. Are those Peking ducks? Picture 3 is a wide variety of dried fish, ginkgo nuts, barley, dried lilyflower and lotus seeds. And the last picture is durian fruit. It is said durian is an acquired taste. Kind of like "completely rotten mushy onions". There are hotels in Asia that ban it from there premises. I'll pass on that one, even the Bizarre Foods guy spit this out and couldn't eat it.

Frank's Groceries and Sundries (PG 140)

I found another treasure trove of a Painted Gentleman in downtown Halifax, Pa. This old hotel/grocery/sundry store sits at the intersection of 4th Street and Market Street. Note that this is one cool building regardless of all the fading signs. I'm not sure what this soda is. There is a SunRipe soda but I can't be sure.

The Roll in the Snow

Do you remember just a short six weeks ago? Do you remember Snowmagedon? Do you remember saying, "When will it ever end?" My neighbor mowed his grass this weekend. Next weekend should be close to 80 degrees. And for the next six months I'll be saying, "When will it ever end?" Until then let's just remember the fun we had with the snow while we had it.

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Dex and the Gorilla Snack Truck

Went on a walkabout yesterday. Stopped by a few places I had been before to see if anything was new. I had other plans but the overcast skies and threat of rain changed them. These I found along a railroad underpass.

Meet the Mallards

Meet Henny and Drake, the Mallards. They live down the street at the pond. They like hanging out, eating bread scraps and scratching what itches. They hope to hatch and raise a large family here this spring.