April 13, 2008

• It's a Blustery Day, Whinnie The Pooh Would Say

  

  I just happened to catch a yellow balloon which had escaped and was making a hasty retreat against a confused and mishapen cloud.   This was a lucky shot and my third to be accepted for sale at the fussy fussy photo site.

  2 accepted in one day,  now they have 3 out of 55 submissions not rejected. Woo Hoo.  I don't get why this one either though..  Go figure. 
  
  I think I'll take the camera out, buy some type of food and eat it,  and watch the clouds blow around.
  
  I took this photo probably six months ago. I forgot. 
  
  You see fleeing balloons and tots aghast more often than you would think in the big and bustling city.
  
  In fact, not a day goes by that I don't see some kid with a hostage balloon tied to his wrist, or  tethered to the handle of a stroller.
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  I used to get a balloon, typically not a helium baloon on a string, but a foot pumped and tight balloon from Bud's Bootery, in West Covina when getting new shoes.  There was a foot pump with a long stem and the balloon would get pumped by the sales guy's foot and I'd get the balloon.

  Some time there were Ked's "Red Ball Express" shoes and some times there was Buster Brown and there was also a big Red Goose or something,  some freebies would often come with shoes, this goes back to the mid 1960's.

  This is what happens when balloons take you back.
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