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London, ON, August 2006
A common picture of a common flower being visited by a common housefly. Yet somehow I've kept it in my archives for the past couple of years because I remember sitting on a friend's deck for at least 15 minutes wondering why this fly wasn't flying away. And for some silly reason, I didn't want to lose the thought to oblivion.
Stupid, I know.
As I continue to meander through this journey called life, I'm learning, albeit slowly, that I don't always need to take pictures because they're mind-blowingly spectacular. Or because there needs to be some rational reason for doing so. Sometimes, it's enough to take a picture to remember a moment.
Your turn: I need your help to caption this shot. Are you game? Click the comment link below and share as many as you can come up with. I'll announce the winner next week. (Click here for more background on Caption This.) Speaking of winners...
About last week's moldy cheese pic: It isn't often that you encounter a full-on biology experiment in the cheese section of your local grocery store. So when it happens, I hope you'll have your camera at the ready. I'm glad I did. This week's honorable menschens include:
- Thumper: "It's not easy turning green..."
- Moments in time: "Growing mould gracefully."
- Terri: "Blue cheese special."
- Mojo: "Spore Loser."
- Judy: Goldy Moldy.
Your turn: As we share floral photos this week, I hope you'll pull one out that isn't necessarily perfect, but it evokes a memory, however mundane, that you don't want to lose. If you're just joining the scary-nutty world of Thematic Photographic, please head over here.
Hello Carmi!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the mention!
Hilary's caption was my favorite as well. It made me laugh out loud, too!
This week's caption from me:
"Fly on a Wall Flower."
Terri
As Marty McFly had been working too much recently, he took his therapist's advice to stop and smell the flowers.
ReplyDeleteMichael J. Fox
When making Shoo-fly-pie, you need to add flower.
ReplyDeleteMartha Stewart
Humph! I'm fed up with being a Fly by Night - makes me exhausted the next day!
ReplyDeleteI have to confess that I chortled and snorted a bit when I saw Hilary's clever wordplay. My first thought after the laughter subsided is "Man I wish I'd thought of that!"
ReplyDeleteThere's potential for caption here... I can feel it. I just can't fit the right words to it at the moment.
How serendipitous you should be looking for less-than-perfect floral offerings today. Neither one of these is what you'd call "technically perfect" but I thought the first was interesting and the second downright funny when I saw them on the big screen. (Of course, my sense of humor is slightly skewed anyway...)
Thematic Photographic 45: "Floral" v.4.0Thematic Photographic 45: "Floral" v.5.0(How can you tell when you've got too much material to manage? I lost track of what I'd linked up and what I hadn't, but it looks as though I posted the links up through Floral 3.0.)
buzz off, fly...leave me BEEEEE.
ReplyDeleteHow about:
ReplyDelete"Help meeeee.....!" ( From the movie "The Fly")
Ok,it's lame, I know!
Anyway, I've got a Thematic Photographic post up:
http://buenosburritos.blogspot.com/2009/04/flower-power.html
Ahhh...Isn't it nice to revisit the archives and find things to post. I recently dug out a significant number of archived shots.
ReplyDeleteThis is cute with the fly. I prefer a fly on the flower outside than in my house.
Two time fly.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit and comment, Carmi. Netchick clicking.
* Busy Bee
ReplyDelete* All in a day's work
* This is my home and I ain't gonna leave it!
ReplyDelete* Yellow soothes my belly
Really? No Whey! Is this a Feta complis? I'm glad my cheesy word play made you laugh. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks ever so much for your very kind words and linkage, Carmi. You're such a sweetie. When they made you, they broke the mold. See? Now I can't stop.. you've created a muenster. ;)
"layover"
ReplyDeleteAnd I like the other ones.
ta heck with the manure pile!
ReplyDeletecommon meets beauty
ReplyDeletenectar envy
mistaken identity
* Now where did they say the honey was?
ReplyDelete* Boy, am I drunk!
* Let me sit still and pose with a smile and see if the guy with the camera would take a pic of mine.. Gotta start a modeling career y'know!
ReplyDelete* Just sat here for a while and dozed off
Phlegmatic Fly Finds Frond Fun
ReplyDeleteGo ahead, say it faster :)
Bee Happy, honey!!!!!! :)
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