Bar none

Found by Jen on 15th and Sansom, Philadelphia

No speed

Submitter Jason tells us he came upon someone else taking a photo of our subject. The plot thickens!

Loveloss

Cleveland submission via our Ohio correspondent, Julie

Broken in a lot (of places)

We pulled the car over in order to get this one yesterday morning

Con-text

Interestingly, we don't see the classifieds anywhere in the shot.

Arrived in the inbox from reader Steve, Philadelphia.

Laid to rest

We just love the gentle, respectful way this separation was handled.

Spotted by Mike in a Philadelphia subway station

Vocabulazy

Quite a tragically quotidian ending for such a sartorial styling, n'est-ce pas?

Catalogued by Janet in Davis, California.

Sol long

Snapped earlier this summer down at the NJ Shore by reader @artchique.

My way, sortofish

And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
Sorry things didn't work out quite as planned.

Chayoung, NYC

Oh shoe-t

Sent from the Hampden section of Baltimore by Kris

Mop sop flop

Snapped by Quadirah in Philadelphia!

Hot mess

Found by Alyssa on 22nd and Locust Streets, Philadelphia.

Shield becomes the cradle

Rock-a-bye-bye.

Contributed by @parkview, from 52nd Street.

That sucks

A bad day for a friend from Milburn, NJ.

Caught by Christian.

Valet

The fanciest are always placed up front, naturally.

The 4th from Courtney, Philadelphia

Thanks for all the fish

3rd from Courtney, Philadelphia

AM fix

2nd from Courtney, Philadelphia

It's not you, it's me

You can just tell this was a difficult breakup.

1st of four sent by Courtney in Philadelphia

Canoodly

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15th & Spring Garden, Philadelphia

1 - 2 - 3. 3 umbrellas AHAHA!

Reader Jen writes*:

If you look close enough, you can see that there are THREE umbrellas sticking in that pole there.  I first thought someone was selling them, but didn't see anyone hanging out close enough for me to think that.  also, is that a trash bag just hanging out?  SO. CONFUSED.  THOSE LOOK LIKE GOOD UMBRELLAS!

 

Anyway, somewhere's near 15th and Sansom in Philly, taken this weekend...

 

*an awesome title, too

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Glory days

In short: you'll start out dreaming of greatness. Maybe becoming Diddy's best accessory or an art installation. But you'll just work and work and work, occasionally going to ladies houses on Fridays after they put their kids to bed, but mostly going back and forth to the plant assembly line for 20 years. Then one day it will hit you that time has slipped away and left you with nothing... but pouring stories.

Jen's first from the Asbury Park Relay Marathon, taking while she was waiting to start her leg. (!)

This hard land

The second snapped by our Jersey Shore correspondent @jerseyshore after running in the Asbury Park Relay Marathon.

Our subject clearly did not put enough into training, and is NOT invited to pack its bags and meet me tonight down at Liberty Hall.

Turtle

Jason found this shy guy on 18th and Lombard Streets, Philadelphia.

Tree-at

Posted on Twitter this morning by @georgeward, who found this flyaway on 8th and Market Streets, Philadelphia.

Orphan, age?

@Chadclark sent this fella from 21st and Wallace Streets, Philadelphia

Bloom goes the dynamite

Sent in by Alliefrom Philadelphia.

Hide and seek on 29th

Volkan's second snap, this one in Murray Hill

Spideyrella

Volkan wrote his own caption for this snap from Manhattan's Chinatown.

Poor excuse for a night cap

This one comes in to us from @jerseyshorejen, spotted on Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

Newest resident

Snapped by first-timer @jillybeans3 on 22nd and the Parkway in Philadelphia.

Squish

Snapped by @georgeward in PhiladelphiaWashington Township, NJ

Ladies' Night

Snapped by readers @whitneybender and @jennab22 in Philadelphia.

Pressed for time

2nd sent today by Moira in Baltimore!

Locked & unloaded

Sent in by Moira from Baltimore

Call for backup

Special thanks to Michael in Buenos Aires. Found on Marcelo T Alvear and Montevideo

Finis

Sent by Cath in New York

My descent into despondency

It was a tough day for me in California. Not my finest hour(s), but you have to admire my friends' persistence here. That's teamwork.

Full gallery from the Sacramento Bee's coverage can be viewed here. Special thanks to Melanie Sill and Howard Weaver.

This is your life

Oh no, no it couldn't be!

We all have a few skeletons in our proverbial closet, and here's mine, which Andrea seems to have unearthed in a vintage clothing store.



What can I say - it was the 80s, I was living on the Lower East Side with this dancer chick who was trying to make a go of it on the punk scene. She wanted to shed her Midwest look and this peach was headed for the goodwill pile before I rescued it. Why she thought cone bras were an improvement over this, I'll never know, but I'd been trying to break into the accessory scene for a few years at that point to no avail myself. I often wondered what happened to her. Ok dancer, but not much of a voice. I wore it exactly once, on a blind date with this guy who painted cartoony graffiti figures. Turns out he was gay.

Overwatered

16th and Mt. Vernon, Philadelphia

Suffocation device

Bella caught this escape from trash mountain near Pace University!

Cagey

Spotted in our favorite spot - Spring Garden and Broad Street, Philadelphia

Peek-a-boo-boo

After a long and distinguished career, he was inexplicably hung up to dry for defects unseen by the passing throng.

Special thanks to our first submitter from Fort Worth and the great state of Texas, Ched, who also wrote the fitting eulogy.

Live together, die alone

Not even good enough for a trash can, this soldier was sent beyond the fence. The ultimate snub

Thanks Chayoung!

ParaS.O.L.

Mr. Darcy! Mr. Darcy!
Oh bollocks.


This being the first submission from Sean, who tells us that he'd been taking umbrella photos for two years when he happened upon our blog! Obviously, Sean is a gentleman and a scholar and we look forward to hearing from him again.

1, 2 punch

This duo sent by Cath in NYC

Blue lagooned

Another from Cath in NYC

Grassy ass

A big thank-you to Bella for sending this to us from Memorial Park, Beacon, NY.