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Folks, I need to take a little break. As can easily be seen, I got a little carried away and went all out to say something about the birth of my second grandson, Jobe Atene Hess. I began the process in a state of sheer exhaustion and I am sheerly exhausted right now. I spent much more time on it than I could afford to, so now I have to back partly away from this blog for awhile and devote my time to other tasks - ones that might actually bring in some revenue.
So here I am, taking a break at Metro Cafe, where I shot this image, Through the Metro Window, Study #4.7, which I am certain will surely be hanging on the wall at MOMA in New York no later than early next week, just as soon as the folks there get a chance to log onto my blog and marvel at the sheer magnificence of this image.
"It's brilliant beyond superb," the MOMA Chief of Masterpiece Acquisitions will exude. "I want it in our museum, now!"
"It's downright piquant," her chief assistant will gush. "I will jump in the Learjet and dash off to Wasilla right now and I will acquire it."
The subjects of the study are, in the reverse order: Jessie, Doug, Jennifer and Brittney. Carmen said that Jessie came in the other night and helped her clean up. Or maybe it was Doug who helped her. Anyway, one of them did.
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Remember last week, just before the birth of Jobe, when I mentioned that the dollar bill that I had given Carmen as a tip had blown away in the wind and as I retrieved it, having already shot a Metro Window study and with another car pulling up to the window behind me, I heard Carmen say, "It's those cute girls!" and then I looked and saw some beautiful Alaska Native girls running excitely from a pickup truck to the shop?
I had to move on, but did so in the hope that one day soon I could make those girls the subject of a Metro Window study.
Talk about Deja Vu! I looked in my rearview mirror and there they were, running toward Metro again. Only they were not coming from a pickup truck. They were coming from their home further up the road. Maybe I misinterpreted the other day and they only ran past the truck.
Or maybe someone just drove them the short distance from their home to Metro, because they were enroute to another place.
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Anyway, here they are - or at least three of them: Melissa, Allison, and Jennifer in Through the Window Metro Study #538. Carmen says they come in every day, as regularly as I do. They buy smoothies. Sometimes they hang out and even help out around the cafe.
MOMA will have to battle the Louvre in Paris for this one, so it might not hang on the wall of whichever the of the two museums wins until maybe two weeks from now.
So that's it for today.
You can expect brief posts for a few days to come.