They used to call it the dump, but now it’s the Recycling Station. Marketing is everywhere. A famous photographer started e-mailing when I began putting photos up on the blog. He was dying of cancer, but was generous in his praise and criticism of my work. A real photographer, he said, can take a beautiful photo of anything, if he or she thinks about it. Maria and I go to the town dump every week with our trash stickers and we love the place. The people there are friendly, and there is a Rube Goldberg feeling about it – all kinds of bins, color codes, numbers and instructions. The place is beautiful to me in its own way and I have taken up the challenge of trying to take beautiful photos of it. The sun was strong off of the bins this afternoon and Maria came across with a bin of plastic bottles. Colored Number II. No Caps. I love the colors.