Things Left Behind

I spent some time at the beach recently and since it was a weekday, a beach that is usually packed was nearly barren. This made me notice the little things that people leave behind on their trips to the beach. I'm not talking about garbage (though that's always there) I'm talking about miscellaneous items. We've all done it. By the time you get to your car after lugging all of your other stuff it's just not worth going back for.

Common item: The Single Flip-Flop

Item Two: The Shovel
(Don't think I didn't contemplate playing with this)


Item Three: The Sippy Cup
(This one made me a little sad for the kid that left it behind)

Item Three: The Castle
(OK I know that you can't take sand castles with you, but it looked so lonely there with nobody around to build onto it.. or destroy it if you were anything like my family)

And lastly, my favorite, Item Four: The Message
(Also not something you can take with you, but still something left behind)

Josie's Day

I know it's been a little while since I've put anything up but I've been bad about picking up my camera lately. I did get to do a photoshoot with my lady-friend the other day, however.

She even took some of me, obviously. Figured it was time I got on the other side of the camera so you had a face to add with the blog.

Photoshoot with Blu

My friend Blu is an incredibly photogenic person. This is a photoshoot I did with her back in December or January.

This is still my favorite.

Not for the easily creeped out.

Years ago there was a waterpark within an hour's drive from home that my mother used to take me to as a kid. I remember it being a bit run down even then and has since gone through it's share of hurricanes and neglect. It's now been closed down for 10 years or more. My parents are members of an RV park that shares the same land and hosted a family reunion there this month.

While scooting around on their golf cart I ran across the graveyard of old fiberglass figures and statues and other pieces of the old waterpark. None of them are wholly intact which adds to the creepiness factor of the whole bit.

I took a lot of pictures and will be showing you the path that I took through the carnival burial ground.

First you are greeted by the Black Knight.

I feel protected now, don't you?

On a closer look..

...maybe we should just keep walking.

Oh! A penguin. That's better.

A penguin with a missing beak, but still.

Oh, just an innocent abandoned swingset.

Wait.. what's that behind it?

Oh, of course.. a disembodied giraffe.. I should have known.

He fits in well with this guy, though.

This is where the hair on the back of my neck starts to stand up.

I wonder what the bleach was there for.

The cow from a different angle on the path.

If I had a truck I would have taken this thing home.

Though I think I'd be worried that it's haunted.
This guy kind of reminds me of Big Boy.

Someone must have gotten hungry.

More coin-operated tombstones.

These are the abandoned carts of an old "rollercoaster" at the park that I actually remember riding.

And the rusted tracks.

If I remember right, these things shot water ouot of the top and cascaded over the sides.

I haven't the slightest idea what these are. My theory is spaceships.

See?? There's a cockpit. And the driver was apparently a fan of Busch Lite

These folks had a thing for cows I think.

Took my nephew and I a minute to figure out what this was supposed to be. It's a rabbit.

Also if you look closely you'll see that someone was considerate enough to add genitalia onto him.

We found his ears a few feet away.

Another mushroom. I think this one was a picnic table or something.

Pretty sure this is the culprit of the missing burger bite.

Mechanical See-Saw with Donald Duck. Not too creepy, right?

Until you get closer and see that it actually looks like this.

*shudder*
Another cow. This one had demon eyes.

The old food court.

Closer inspection. Those are some happy ants.

I'm not really sure about the selling point of having ants painted on the food court, though. I thought the idea was to not have ants near your food?