[Please come up with a caption for this photo...see details below]
Mallorytown, Ontario, December 2006 [Click to enlarge]
Sometimes, when you see a crisp apple lying forgotten on the ground in the middle of a highway rest stop parking lot, you feel the need to get down on the ground to capture the moment. I've learned to not ask why I so often feel this need.
If you're new to the Caption This feature here on Written Inc., please click here to read the rules, such as they are. Click here to see all CT entries to-date. Last week's entry was the sixth in our increasingly popular series. This closeup of a glass goblet's stem attracted some of the most varied responses thus far. Interestingly, it also marked the first time some readers actually voted for someone else's submission! (I thought that was kinda neat...feel free to toss in a vote, if you wish.)
In the end, I was swayed by Judy's perspective. She saw in this image something I had not seen when I first composed it, namely a schematic of the female reproductive system. She challenged us all to look at it in a very different, and very funny way. That's the magic of photography, in my book, and it's why her caption takes it this week:
"Marian loved being a woman so much she had her womb memorialized in glass".Judy is a gifted florist and hands down one of the kindest bloggers you'll ever have the pleasure to read. If you haven't visited her site, Imagine What I'm Leaving Out, you're certainly missing out on a treat. Please tell her hello from me when you visit.
Your turn: What caption would you give to the poor-little-apple picture above? I can't wait to see what you all come up with!
Sometimes when I see a crisp green apple on the floor I pick it up and eat it!
ReplyDeleteCAPTION: Where's my cab!!
"It was only a matter of time before the horses showed up. Siegfried's plan was right on schedule."
ReplyDelete~S
The new Garden of Eden?
ReplyDeleteBRW Michele sent me here.
ReplyDeleteVery moving photo. Really. It almost made me cry. . . and not just because the only photos I take are of an asthmatic cat.
ReplyDeleteIt also reminds me of the ongoing battle to bring Beatles music to iTunes.
Caption: Where is love?
Unfortunately, this one doesn't bring up anything like last time. Thanks so much for the mention, Carmi. I don't come up with captions often, but when I do - it is worth it! Now I have to go back and read everyone else's comments and captions.
ReplyDeleteThe apple's scheme to rule the world began slowly...first, keep all the doctors away....
ReplyDeleteSo it is in life as well...
ReplyDelete"Sometimes, the apple does fall far from the tree."
Mike
"Oh God. Is that Martha Stewart coming this way? I thought I fell far enough from the tree to escape being pie filling!"
ReplyDelete"Granny Smith is wanted for questioning in regards to the resent drive by slaying at a local rest stop..."
ReplyDeleteCaption: "All I have ever wanted to be was applesauce!!! This is my chance!"
ReplyDeleteAn apple a day keeps the doctor away unless you have to step in front of moving vehicles to retrieve it!
ReplyDeleteHey Carmi!! I'm such a slacker when it comes to blogging lately. It means so much to have you stop by and enjoy the visit! :)
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I thought of when I saw this picture was "Far from home." Nothing funny...although I wanted to be funny :) Love the photo.
Caption: I've escaped! Now what?
ReplyDeleteThat other picture does look a lot like an illustration of a uterus, Carmi.
Michele sent me!
Seriously Carmi....Mike A. took mine...
ReplyDeleteI thought of the exact same thing! Great minds think alike...hehehe...or we are apples that indeed fell dar from the tree! It may be the latter! :)
Maybe I will have better luck next week!
"The teacher will do without today".
ReplyDeleteMichele sent me back, Carmi.
"Please don't park here, please don't park here, please don't park here!"
ReplyDeleteMr. Althouse kinda took the first thing that came to my mind.
ReplyDeletemaybe just to slim it down a little, you could call it:
"Not Far From The Tree"
The only caption I could come up with is "Why did the apple cross the road?"
ReplyDeleteYou photograph some interesting stuff Carmi.
Michele sent me this time.
future site of "fresh apple cider"
ReplyDeleteThe most obvious: "Road Apple"
ReplyDeleteBut I really like "Why did the apple cross the road." Too funny.
Carmi, I'd really like to use your road picture for a story on my blog. Would that be possible? I'd be sure to give you credit and links! But I don't want to impose, either.
Love the apple picture.
i am voting for Carli for pure cryptic value....
ReplyDeleteThis is the apple of Carmi's eye?
ReplyDeleteMichelle says hi :)
"God didn't make little green apples and it don't rain in Indiappolis in the summer time"
ReplyDeleteThat's all I remember of the song....Thanks for your very kind comments on my blog. I appreciate it. Santa Clara DP calls me photoIam...who knows maybe someday I will change my name.
"The Worm family takes their new mobile home out for a spin."
ReplyDeleteHow about "Another Roadside Attraction." Yes it was a book by Tom Robbins but it seems to fit for me!
ReplyDeleteWhy did the apple cross the road?
ReplyDeleteOh dear... now I see that's already taken.
"apple, stationary"
ReplyDelete"Bad Apple"
ReplyDelete(ie, crossing the road outside the crosswalk)
"Maybe crushed, probably thrown but not forgotten"
ReplyDeleteI love this picture.
ReplyDelete"Left behind in the hustle & bustle of the trip"
ReplyDeleteThat's the doctor walking away.
ReplyDeletecryptic value?
ReplyDeleteI came to see what the competition was, but with Dave's comment, I feel a need to clarify:
That apple, along with your description and the cobblestone road, reminds me of Oliver Twist. Where is Love is a song from the musical Oliver!, sung by the title character at his loneliest moment. And that's all I meant.