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A Week in Photos: 2025, Part 37

September 19, 2025

Monday, September 8: Clearest view we’ve had in a while.

Looking out a window across a blacktop street. A couple buildings on the other side with a valley beyond. The sky is blue with fluffy white clouds. Outlines of mountains across the valley.

Tuesday, September 9: Liminal space in a grocery store nearing midnight.

Concrete store aisle with full shelves and stacks of boxes in the center of the aisle. No people.

Wednesday, September 10: When the color depositing shampoo deposits more color than you expect, including on your pale pink treatment coat you’ve applied in hopes of getting your nails back in shape, highlighting where it’s peeling off.

My left hand, fingers curled into the palm, showing what looks like worn light blue polish.

Thursday, September 11: I still get stickers and address labels in the mail from various charities. I can’t keep them; I have plenty of both. But sometimes it’s hard to let them go, like this little bird and berries, which reminds me of my mom, who liked little birds.

Small square sticker held on my index finger. White background with yellow bird surrounded by autumnal greenery and berries of blue and red.

Friday, September 12: I sometimes watch ads on Happy Color to get hints to find those stubborn tiny areas I need to fill in to finish pictures. Usually they’re for games or other products I don’t need, but this time it was for some sort of cleaner app, with this very scammy message telling me to click it. No freaking way was I going to click that. But I can see how someone would be tricked into it.

Screen shot of ad mimicking an iPhone background with a warning message about viruses.

Saturday, September 13: Lost 45 minutes of my life to a construction backup, most of that sitting still. I did get to see some kids on the bus ahead of me having a dance party in the aisle at one point, so that was something.

Looking out through a windshield at night to a school bus ahead with its brake lights on.

Sunday, September 14: A screenshot is going to have to count as a photo today, as this Mary Poppins doll set from the 1960s that came up on my social media rang some bells. I know I had that case when I was little; I remember seeing it when my brother and I were cleaning out Mom’s house. Not sure whether I saved it … guess I’ll find out when we weed stuff out for our next move.

Screenshot of an social media post showing a Mary Poppins doll with a plastic case printed with a floral design and two outfits for the doll laid out in the foreground.

After I wrote this, I went looking and found that in 2017, I’d posted a photo of six year old me in the Mary Poppins costume my mom made me, carrying that same plastic carpetbag that’s in the screenshot:

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On this date in 2012 through 2024: No journal entries
2011: Report Card Monday, 9.19
2007 through 2012: No entries
2006: JournalNon
2006 through 2010: No entries
2005: Weekend Roundup, Now with 75% Less Sentence Structure
2004: Rejected
2002 & 2003: No entries

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