It’s time once again for the Oddball Photo Challenge. While walking around Old Town Pasadena, I glanced down a cobbled alley, filled with restaurants, shops, and (evidently) an ice cream store. This is one big cone and let’s not even look up the calorie count!
It’s a glorious spring day in northern Illinois as I write this post on Saturday…warm, sunny, windy (of course)…absolutely what we’ve been waiting for. The windows are open, I’ve had a walk around the lake, taken some photos, and sat on a bench just relaxing and enjoying being outside. Tomorrow is Palm Sunday as well as the latest installment of the Oddball Photo Challenge. Here’s my oddball for this week.
Although my daughter offered the use of her car while she was at work, Old Town Pasadena, with its shops, restaurants, and other delights, was only about a mile and a half away, so I packed my camera, telephoto lens, Kindle, notebook, etc. and headed out into the California sunshine. On the way, I passed a parking garage with this perfect sign atop the entrance. Or rather, I passed after stopping for a quick oddball photo. How could I not? It was a sign!
“Flipping” through my online photo files, I found this shot that, although I like it, both in the original and in this edit, had me a bit flummoxed as to what it was. The next shot showed that it was a photo of the lid to a small pot, glass with a handle on top. Obviously something happened with the light, but I like the minimalist abstraction of it and it’s a perfect oddball.
Last week, a piece of string. This week, a hair clip. You just never know what odd thing you’ll find on the park path.
When walking in the park, I generally see the usual suspects: plants, animals, birds, tracks, and sometimes humans. But every so often, I have a close encounter of the odd kind, the sort that’s just right for a Sunday Oddball Photo Challenge episode. I edited this with Picasa’s Lomo-ish for just a bit more pizzaz.
There’s getting from place to place and then there’s gettin’ around in style! No one is too young for some snazzy wheels, as this grocery cart catering to the younger set in Mesa, Arizona shows. It’s just unusual enough to enter the Oddball Photo Challenge for this week. Hopefully both drivers are on the same page as to which aisle they’re headed for next!
I’ve joined Instagram, although I’m still feeling my way around. My username is, unsurprisingly, Sustainabilitea, so feel free to follow me there. If you’re on Instagram, let me know.
During the Tour de France, the routes are heavily decorated with a variety of decorations. Of course, bicycles figure heavily and, as yellow is the color of the jersey, the “maillot jaune”, worn by the winner at the end of each stage and, of course, at the end of the race, many yellow bikes are seen. This one would be a bit uncomfortable, to say nothing of not having gears, and how long would the rider’s legs have to be to reach the pedals? Odd, indeed.
The Weekly Photo Challenge has moved from Friday to Wednesday and since I was last here, Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge has moved from Friday back to Sunday. I’m so confused. However, the two are no longer in conflict, so my life is easier in that respect. 🙂 For this week, I offer you a sign I spotted while going with my parents to visit my brother and his family during my January visit to Arizona. I’m all for what this sign stands for!!
It’s winter, the time for snow. But this isn’t snow. This is sugar on blueberries waiting to be made into blueberry crisp. Oddball? Maybe for a photo, but not for the taste buds!
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