Zen Monday is the day you experience the photo and give us your thoughts rather than me telling you what I think the photo's about. There's no right or wrong. It means what you think it means, or what you want it to mean.
I look for a photo worth contemplating or, failing that, something odd or silly. And I stay out of the comments box for most of the day to avoid influencing the intellectual path of the (usually highly erudite) discussion.
As I post each new Zen Monday photo I add a label to last week's to identify it if necessary.
Is there a garbage collectors strike?? and yes Petrea if you can send me the links of 2 bloggers from İzmir I could look at them. Thanks..
ReplyDeleteThe Litterin' Low Life Was Here.
ReplyDeleteTsk tsk.
Not-so-Rose Bowl.
ReplyDelete...and now I present to you "Exhibit L" in "the Universe v Humanity".
ReplyDeleteWe came, we saw, we left a lot of trash.
ReplyDelete… or, veni, vidi, yucky.
ReplyDeleteI don't think a minute maid is going to be able to finish that cleanup.
ReplyDeletePUC had better get better at picking up after parades.
ReplyDeleteI hope fish like lemonade.
ReplyDeleteI hear Chrissie Hynde singing "...back to Ohio...".
ReplyDeleteOh, My! People! So crass!!
ReplyDeleteI can't get a whisper of zen out of this photo (altho I see your outrage written all over it). I'm going to the dry garden at the Huntington to cleanse my palate.
ReplyDeleteZen, Trash, and Monday.
ReplyDeleteyet another reason to avoid Colorado Blvd. at Rose Parade time....
ReplyDeleteNot a very Rosy finish to the Rose Bowl parade...
ReplyDeleteSaid the fish to the red curb:
ReplyDelete"People are pigs. Thank goodness for the Pasadena Public Works Department!"
What litter bugs! I feel a tear rolling down my cheek like that ad from the 70s. I guess they didn't see the no dumping sign.
ReplyDelete"The Planet is fine (?)..."
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's part of a bigger plan :-)
OK Who stole my broom?
ReplyDeleteThose trashy parade people ! Harummmph.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I am most most most thrilled that I will be winging my way to Paris when the Alabama fans descend on your fair city. War Eagle to all my Auburn fans out there.
As the locals know, the amount of trash left behind after the Tournament of Roses Parade is phenomenal. Even more phenomenal is how quickly Pasadena's Public Works Department cleans it up. I mean they are fast. (Frazgo, where've you been?)
ReplyDeleteI expect the trash. Every year. Yet every year I'm shocked by it. We want the people to come and enjoy the Parade, we really do. But how does trashing a beautiful town count as enjoyment? And right by a storm drain with a sign that says "This drains to the ocean." Thanks, folks. As Ted said--"Exhibit L."
Yeah, not very Zen. (Not that my Monday stuff has anything to do with actual Zen.) Virginia's Alabama friends will have more respect, won't they, V?
Thanks, all. I loves my Mondays.
Your avatar seems to have plugged into the plutonium supply.
ReplyDeleteOwnership (or the lack of it)
ReplyDeleteLate on this . . . the morning after the night that the whole world is sleeping on Pasadena's streets.
ReplyDeleteIn an effort to appear unbiased all I can say is .....I went to Auburn University. I will however expect the rabid, I mean enthusiastic Alabama fans to clean up after themselves and spread their southern "Charm" all over the Dena!
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My WV is DINGL :)
I love your shots, Fabricio. The gold man on Hollywood Blvd.--you captured the expression under the paint.
ReplyDeleteYes, Bec, we invited them and we host them. I hope they had a blast!
Virginia: Bama meets the Dena. How could it not be charming?
I don't know how I missed this but one of my favorite things about the parade is the morning after. I always appreciate the couches left curbside.
ReplyDeleteI'm coming to this late and didn't check the other comments but I'm thinking Rose Bowl here.
ReplyDeleteBook Dragon, apparently you've witnessed this event before!
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