Making Pictures of Junk at the Small Mall

This is a recycled post, or re-post, from my Family Photographs blog. Enjoy.

The sun did not shine
It was too wet to play
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.*

So, today I got to play Cat in the Hat to my kids. Kath has a terrible head cold (not Swine Flu, guys). The kids had no school, so I boogied home in the afternoon to get those kids out of the house. It was "be a tourist in your own town" time, and I took the kids to The Small Mall.

The Small Mall is filled with lots of junk. Old gasoline pumps, model airplanes, real airplanes, a helicopter, British phone boxes (2), neon signs, circus displays, ship models, carnival rides, Star Wars memorabilia, and all manner of curiosities. The main attraction for the kids was picture taking. Between Owen, Julia and me, we took 103 pictures. You can see them in the slide show below. What a great thing about digital photography. [Double click on the slide show to see it in a new window, or just watch the small pictures right on this page.]





I have to go back to work this evening for the Honors Program reception, but it was cool to bust out and play with the kids. Julia did not want to go with us (that's putting it mildly--she had a major fit!). But as you can see from the photos, we had a fun time.

For free!

*The epigraph, it should go without saying, is the opening stanza of The Cat in the Hat.