SOMEWHERE BETWEEN sitting and standing

No explanation needed. This is its own category.

Proof HE WAS THERE photos

Surely you've got a lot of photos of someone standing by something, which at the time seemed very important or amusing. Once home you realize you've got nothing. Never a close up of anyone; just posed shots next to doors and plants. Virtually this entire collection of Charlie, and the wife he left behind, are posed shots.

So here's another long tall Texan shot. In this one he's in Phoenix, Arizona. It sort of feels a bit like I'm taking the garden elves on trips. Charlie seems to fit the bill.

And I do believe a new category could begin with this image: men standing next to cactus.

The CHARLIE CHRONICLES. It's a CATEGORY.

I have many more photos of Charlie sitting. Charlie sitting with his pipe. Charlie sitting with a coffee cup. Charlie sitting all over the place, but I thought I'd prove that Charlie also looked quite nice standing.

This shot was taken at the Grand Canyon in May 1986.

Warning: Charlie will appear again. Believe me I will sneak some more Charlie in once in a while. The holiday shot is not to be missed.

CHARLIE continues to sit

Is it me or does Charlie just seem to sit nicer than most of us?

I have so many photos of Charlie sitting that it could be a category all by itself, not even a subcategory.

Sitting Man...IT'S A CATEGORY

CHARLIE: The Sitting Man

This is Charlie. I have a lot of photos of Charlie sitting. I have photos of Charlie standing. For the next few days we will watch Charlie sit.

See Charlie. See Charlie sit.

Folks, it doesn't get anymore exciting than this.

CATEGORY and SUBCATEGORIES GALORE!

This weeks Sepia Saturday is a fellow sitting in a chair. It could be a category. Yes indeed, “Man In Chair” sounds like a perfectly reasonable category title.

Without category intent, I can say that I have acquired a large collection of one man sitting in chairs. Okay, there’s also a shot of him sitting on a bed so I guess that would be a subcategory. He also stands perfectly straight in front of things. Actually, I’m not convinced the standing shots are real. I believe it’s possible that his wife simply had a cut-out made that she took with her on vacations.

The shot I’m about to show you has so many categories that it boggles the mind. I’ll list just a few and let you guess the others:

Man In Chair

Cutting the Cake. Okay, officially this is not completely true. We don’t actually see any cutting or even a knife. I suppose I should call this an "anticipatory cake cutting" subcategory. I have others that would easily fit into this subcategory.

Man With Nice Legs, short, but nice. Open toe shoe no less.

Double Exposure

Woman in Adirondack Chair

I think you can see where this is going. There are categories and subcategories galore. And of course once categorized I’ll be keeping a watchful eye for more to add to the collection. Join in! Add your own!

And should anyone have any Fart Fairy images let me know. I'm thinking they deserve their own web page. And for those who only stop by here occasionally...yes, you missed a Fart Fairy.

HAVE WATERMELON, Will Travel! It's a category.

It's a category! One of my faves. Have no idea why I ended up with this category. You buy one watermelon shot and the next thing you know you start seeing others. You think, "Hmmmm...maybe there's something to this. Watermelon. People seem to love watermelon."

Oh sure, there are other categories much easier to collect, but do the people almost always look happy? I find my watermelon shots the people look content, some even prideful of the melons they have. I can't say all the shots of people cutting cakes are as equally happy.

This is a recent acquisition. A most unusual watermelon shot. On the road with watermelon! Perhaps a subcategory!

Click on either image to see it larger.

So how did this come about? Was there a time when people said, "Hey Mabel, lets put the kids in the car, hook on the wagon, drive out to a sunflower field, and eat watermelon!" Apparently so.

(I sort of like the way these categories and subcategories make me sound like I've lost a few marbles. Okay, most of my marbles. Perhaps I should actually show up at a high school reunion and when asked what I do I could deadpan and say, "I collect photos of people eating watermelon." And believe me, I could deadpan right through this and have their confused expressions forever etched into my brain. And as they walked away I'd hear, "She was always odd, wasn't she?" to which the other would say, "I don't remember her.")