Showing posts with label people eating watermelon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people eating watermelon. Show all posts

6/20/14

The FIRST CITY COMEDY TROUPE takes a bow



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Applause, applause. They're taking their show on the road. Hope you enjoyed the show.
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6/19/14

The final installment of the deconstruction of the FIRST CITY COMEDY TROUPE


…and finally…


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Now you can see why I bought this photograph. Do you know why? You have to be a regular reader to know the significance of this and how it fits one of my favorite categories.

Tomorrow the photo as a whole.
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9/10/12

CATEGORIE STUPIDI!


Sometimes I ask myself, because often there is nobody else to talk to, exactly why did I choose the people eating watermelon category? One of the answers I get, and might I say the answer usually comes to me with an Italian accent, is that it chose me. I’m guessing I need not ask how I ended up with the “people cutting cakes” category unless I’m in the mood for that Italian accent buzzing in my brain.

Categories are mindless fun, some more mindless than others. I’ll admit, even if I was fluent in Italian I would not understand collecting images that show a thumb covering up, well…most of the image. But hey, if you like blurred closeups of fingers go for it. If I find any I’ll send them to you.

Okay, I’m getting something coming through in Italian which is, “Don’t promise what you can’t deliver.” It actually sounded more like, “Non promettere ciò che non in grado di fernier.” I apparently have some sort of translation unit installed in my brain because I would have never been able to translate this on my own.

Okay, more incoming…”Sai, hai più viti allentate del Titanic.”

I’m sorry, but due to low blood sugar I’m unable to translate that last line. I really need to remember to eat lunch.

Anyway, I think what the voice was trying to tell me is that I actually never find any photos of fingers over images in any of the places I buy stuff. So don’t contact me.

Now, in a roundabout way I want to introduce you to my latest cake cutting shot. Again, a category you would think is easy to find, but no. People sitting at tables with cakes? Lots of them. Birthday parties with cakes? Tons of them! Cutting the cake? Pretty rare.


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So what is it about the cutting that gets me? It’s the anticipation. Until the knife cuts into the cake the taste buds are neutral. Once the shiny metal starts to slide down through the luscious layers of moist cake and sweet creamy icing…well…you can see it in the eyes of those watching the knife, especially kids.

Don’t say you don’t get your money’s worth here. Well, you can say it, but give me the name of another blog where the writer is channeling a language they don’t even speak? Or the fact that sometimes at night they see a Viking standing at the foot of their bed that glows in the dark? You sometimes get top dollar weirdness here.

9/19/11

HAVE WATERMELON, Will Travel! It's a category.


It's a category! One of my faves. Have no idea why I ended up with this category. You buy one watermelon shot and the next thing you know you start seeing others. You think, "Hmmmm...maybe there's something to this. Watermelon. People seem to love watermelon."

Oh sure, there are other categories much easier to collect, but do the people almost always look happy? I find my watermelon shots the people look content, some even prideful of the melons they have. I can't say all the shots of people cutting cakes are as equally happy.

This is a recent acquisition. A most unusual watermelon shot. On the road with watermelon! Perhaps a subcategory!



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So how did this come about? Was there a time when people said, "Hey Mabel, lets put the kids in the car, hook on the wagon, drive out to a sunflower field, and eat watermelon!" Apparently so.

(I sort of like the way these categories and subcategories make me sound like I've lost a few marbles. Okay, most of my marbles. Perhaps I should actually show up at a high school reunion and when asked what I do I could deadpan and say, "I collect photos of people eating watermelon." And believe me, I could deadpan right through this and have their confused expressions forever etched into my brain. And as they walked away I'd hear, "She was always odd, wasn't she?" to which the other would say, "I don't remember her.")

7/20/11

PEOPLE EATING WATERMELON. It's a CATEGORY


Imagine my surprise when I sorted through the Ten Buck Box and found this, a "category" photo. One to add to my prized collection of people eating watermelon. Alas, no pig in this photo, which is really a sub-sub-category. I shall hope someday to expand that sub-sub-category, but for now I'll just be happy with this.




Hmmm...new category, people eating watermelon in the middle of a road with a car quickly approaching. I must find more!

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