Monday, July 02, 2007

Yard SAlE


It must be a South Jersey thing. Visiting my family this past weekend in my hometown of Vineland, New Jersey, we went to the Red, White & Blueberry Festival in Hammonton, NJ, "Blueberry Capital of the World", on this warm first of July Sunday. Keeping my eyes peeled for a rogue BlUEBERRY sign, I shouldn't have been surprised to find this YARD SAlE sign before we even reached the festival grounds. It took me back to my youth, when I started noticing these lowercase SAlE L's in my rural surroundings. It also reminded me of why I left South New Jersey, fleeing up north to New York, where I thought I'd never come across another lowercase L again.

Interestingly, there were plenty of these green YARD SAlE signs leading up to the Blueberry Festival, some written as SAlE, others as SALE. Must have been two authors constructing the signs. Perhaps brothers ... one good, the other wicked.

3 comments:

BoggyWoggy said...

Good one! I saw a sign in a "junk" store today in Springfield, Oregon that said, "Everything Free Tomorrow."
Get it?

Anonymous said...

This is great. If I see one I will post you the photo!

Unknown said...

I shall not repeat myself..It's the same 'SAlE' scenario...