Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge: Week 16…Cheers to the oddballs!

Photos may be considered “oddball” for a variety of reasons, but no matter the reason, it’s fun to look through my photos to decide which ones to feature.  And it’s always enjoyable to see what others have shared.

I offer a still life of kitchen detritus, the aftermath of cooking…the stem of a mushroom with some gills that tore out as well, the shiny lining of an eggshell catching the light, the skin of a red onion.  As I learned many years ago when I found myself unexpectedly cooking lunches at a rather nice restaurant in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, that eggshell liner has a practical use as well.  I’d cut the edge of my left wrist with the tip of my chef’s knife and was staunching the blood when the chef took an egg, cracked it and peeled that liner away.  He then applied it to the cut and lo and behold, it worked just like a bandage.  Hopefully you’ll never need to put the knowledge into use, but just in case…

So cheers to the oddball photo!  Long may it live!