Something Quirky, Something Old, Something Blue

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Jay over at The Depp Effect challenged a few bloggers in her Mind the Bell post to find something weird in our neighborhood that we take completely for granted, but something tourists would gaze at in perplexity.

Well just slight of getting the whole community together and taking a “family” portrait Maplewood is actually a picturesque, quaint, but “slightly backwards community”. I do take the people for granted as it is a community very rich in racial diversity, that’s one thing I do love about the area. Once known as South Orange Township before the name was changed to Maplewood in 1922, these Two Towns are still connected through our dual school district.
Picture of Maplewood Village

Something Quirky
So I had no problem stepping over into South Orange to find my quirky item because Maplewood won’t tolerate anything, other than the people, that would make visitors gaze in perplexity. This picture was not recently taken by me, but has always been one of my favorites and most intriguing.

I can’t explain this one, I’m not really sure who the victim is here, but since the tree is “alive” I’m going to say it’s the mailbox. If anyone can think of a reason of why these two should not be joined together…. They look quite happy together, don’t you think?

Something Old
Well for days I’ve tried to get a picture of this man, but I haven’t seen him in over a week. There’s an older gentleman, about 70 or 80 years old who lives on the same street as one of the high schools. His self-appointed job is to clean up everything that falls on the ground, sticks, branches, paper, flyers, wrappers, anything! He walks up and down the street with his cane and white bag picking up trash. It’s weird because he’s not wearing an orange vest. He is the norm to us, but visitors might find him weird.

Something Blue
The color of this house usually leaves people who pass it, perplexed. It’s a bit out of the norm and the first thing you see from the street. Even the locals stare, but after a while you get used to it.

On a side note, I found this interesting YouTube “documentary dealing with the complications that adolescents face in their town” and having no place to go after school. They put together this documentary about it, have a look!

Thanks Jay, this was fun and different! What’s going on in your neck of the woods, got weird? Post it.

Photo of Maplewood Village GNU Free Documentation License
Photo of the Hand by Walt Jabsco