Queen Jose

In the world of inanimate objects, Jose was the Queen and she showered her affections on her lovers, each of which was named Finny, short for "Finial." They protected her with wrought iron fencing. She kept them clean and shiny.
It was true love.

Queen Jose sanitizes her lovers in the industrial depths of the borough of Queens which is where the New York City Department of Sanitation parks its trucks.

Adjacent to that parking yard, The New York City Board of Education parks its school buses.

(In the foreground of this photograph, seasonally-retired snow plows are flirting with the caged school buses.)

In the world of inanimate objects, these next-door neighbors are playing the pick-up game. The vehicles from one yard pick up the garbage. The vehicles from the other yard pick up the students.






(Photos: Jamaica, NY...October 16, 2011)