Pic Spam. Allegorical flower and Grocery store.

[feng_shui_house]

On my 20 min walk to the grocery yesterday morning I took some photos. A few flowers, a pair of cute mutts, a weird plant, a large tree, etc. On the way back I didn't pause because I didn't want the milk to get warm.

A periwinkle. I had fellow feeling for it. It found an infinitesimal space for happiness and beauty and made the most of its opportunity despite overwhelming odds. It's growing at the base of a cement and clay tile enclosure full of another type of flower being coddled. All it asks of life is that no one steps on it.


In Sedano's grocery with my faithful little red cart.

Comments

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Just think how much you'd have to pay a gym for the privilege of walking the equivalent distance on one of their machines. And you wouldn't have any milk at home after doing it.

Sturdy cart you have there.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I love my little cart. I bought 2 of them more than 20 years ago for about $15 each. Bro appropriated one to put a paint sprayer on, & it's pretty much wrecked, but this one is still hanging in there. The front and back fold in, and the sides fold in the center so you can make it much smaller for storage, or to make a flat surface for briefly carrying something fairly large & unwieldy.

I've not seen the carts for sale since. It's a pity, they're great.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Lovely little flower!

I have two plastic boxes like that (no wheels though) in the back of my car for groceries so they don't roll about. They fold down the same way; very useful for holidays too.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

The wheels make it. I wouldn't have dreamed of buying half that amount of stuff if I didn't have wheels on it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You can buy wheelie bags here. They're upright and usually tartan, and associated with old ladies. Your stuff'd probably sweat in one though. :-P

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

There are upright metal wheelie carriers here- in fact I saw a man using one when I went with Red. He looked jealous. Red is a treasure. I hope he lasts a long time.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

wheelie bags here. They're upright and usually tartan, and associated with old ladies

Hey, I had one of those. When middle child no longer needed the push chair and I still lived within walking distance of all the shops I needed, I found that I couldn't carry all the shopping that used to fit in and around the pushchair. So I bought a shopper, mine was brown not tartan. It survived until we moved house and I had to use the car to go shopping.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Car kills wheelie-bag! How cruel. :^)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

The bag was pretty well worn out by then. The wheeled base continued for years transporting the water carrier when we went camping.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I used one in my 20s (dark blue tartan) when I didn't have a car. They're still considered old lady shopping wheelies though. :-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Old ladies get that way by being clever and tough. Wimps don't make it to old-lady hood. :^)