My friend lives on Joy Street just one block over from:
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“The Street Where You Live”: Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge 2016, Week 31
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Little Duck’s Adventures: Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge 2016, Week 30
Little Duck had many adventures at my house before flying off to live in Missouri. These are the few adventures I caught him in.
Please click on first photo and arrows to enlarge photos and see the story line.
I told Little Duck smoking would stunt his growth, but he never listens to me.
He told me he could quit cold turkey anytime he wanted to, but. . .
I don’t quite think he understood the concept.
I finally hid his tobacco and papers, but I didn’t bother to hide this bottle because I knew he couldn’t reach it anyway. But he outsmarted me. Big Duck scorns in the dark background.
Then he decided he’d found religion, but I couldn’t convince him that Catholics don’t really believe in the concept of totem poles and that especially in Mexico, someone was bound to consider it as sacrilegious.
When Big Duck offered to edit his work, Little Duck insisted on staying annoyingly close as he read.
So, Little Duck decided to explore a bit. The recumbent nude bronze seemed to him like a pony ride created just for him.
Playing “king of the mountain” is no fun at all if you have no one to lord it over.
He had a few adventures in the kitchen as well.
He thought he’d make some breakfast, but no one told him that a watched toaster never pops up.
He thought if he got closer, it might help.
and for once, he was right.
Next he thought he would supervise Yolanda, making sure she got her pieces evenly measured.
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Eventually, Little Duck got to leave his house for the first time to attend a reading. Here he is with Big Duck and the friend who gave him to Big Duck for his birthday.
He was sure Big Duck would enjoy his close company as a means of overcoming the jitters, …
Here he is teaching Big Duck to accent his reading with fine gestures. As you can see above, Big Duck didn’t follow his advice.
Perhaps he’ll have more success in teaching the dog to quack.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/29/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-30/
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Signs of the West!!!
Rust and Rebozos: Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge: 2016, Week 25
I love the variety of the women shown in this photo and how each one conveys a different story. The obvious focus is the woman in the white dress, but I also love the contrast between the basket of flowers and the bright turquoise satin purse, the woman looking right at me from behind the hand of the woman adjusting her chignon. Just so much going on that day of the rebozo parade and some of that is conveyed in this photo.
These are two favorite photos I found when looking through some old hard drives. I could save them for a specific prompt, but by then I might have forgotten them, so here they are in odd balls.
On the road to Tapalpa! This would have worked well for the curves prompt! Love this rusty roll of wire flung over the fence. Those old fences made out of whatever wood was at hand are still my favorites. You can see some of the famous October wildflowers scattered around in the tall grass.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/06/19/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-25/
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge, 2016, Week 24
I strung these solar LED lights next to my pool and didn’t realize until that night when I was sitting at my desk which looks out on that scene that they are in the shape of a duck or a swan! I’ve been enjoying them for a few months. They are totally solar and come on only in the dark, except–no longer! When I was trimming the trees, I inadvertently cut through the copper wire.. Sob. No more LED fairy/duck lights.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/06/12/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-24/
Extra Service: Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge 2016, Week 23
The Customer is Always Right
This photo would not be oddball except for the story that goes with it. I was in the same store that had the life-sized horse lamp with the lampshade on its head. Remember that? (A party horse, I surmise.) I could get through a year of oddballs on just photos from that store, but this particular photo is more about the subjects than the photo itself. I saw a woman who had been carrying her somewhat heavy and fussy child around the store for some time. Finally, as I waited in line to make a rather large purchase, (not the horse) she walked up and held the sleeping child out to this man, who had been helping me to buy the table and chairs and who did not look any too pleased to be taking charge of his son. His stance was awkward and his arms extended in a manner that showed very little connection to the child.
“Is this your son?” I asked, smiling fondly at the child who was cherubic in his sleeping state.
“No,” he answered.
“Do you know the mother at all?”
“No,” he answered, “I just work here.”
The mother, hearing our interchange, broke into the conversation. “I have been holding my son for a long time and my arms are tired, so I gave him to this man to hold for me.”
This may not be as funny in the telling as it was in the viewing, but this man in no way volunteered for babysitting duty and neither did he look at all adept at it or interested in continuing to serve as “baby-check” boy. It struck me as funny, and still does. How much of this story can you see in the photo?
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/06/05/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-23/
Collaborative Collage
A year or so ago, I began sticking the labels from bananas up on the blank ugly white side of the cupboard near my sink. Over the past year, I’ve added interesting liquor bottle tops with their sides cut to sunburst out around them, beer bottle caps and a little virgin plaque my friend Judy gave me. Imagine my surprise when I looked up yesterday and saw that Yolanda had decided to cut out a cane of Caffeine Free Diet Coke from the side the the carton of it I had in the fridge! A friend I told about it didn’t see the humor of it but I loved it. She certainly knows me, and all those rum bottle caps just didn’t cut it without a bit of Caffeine Free Diet Coke to add to the mix! At $2 a can (if and when it is even available in Mexico) the Caffeine Free Diet Coke is by far the most expensive thing up there per serving, which certainly adds an air of the exotic.
Wild Hair Day––Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge 2016, Week 22
I love this shot of Yoli’s hair in the lake breeze!!!
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What Are the Chances? Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge 2016 Week 21
I swear this is not a setup! I came in, tossed some change down on the desk and opened my computer. After working for a few minutes, I looked down and this is what I saw. Luckily my camera was handy just a few steps away. What are the chances that the coin would balance itself on edge like this???? Again..I couldn’t balance it if I tried. My friendly desk poltergeists had a hand in it.
To read a follow-up story to this one, go here:
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2016/05/26/so-strange-so-strange/
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/05/22/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-21/
“She’s Kept Her Figure!” Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge 2016, Week 21
I love this photo I took of my friend Pat, my upstairs neighbor at the beach. She was good sport enough to give me permission to use it on my blog. She is not an oddball, but she would agree this photo is a wonderful oddball!!!
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/05/22/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-21/
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