Wednesday, October 31, 2007

What Is It Wednesday #82

Before we start, I'd like to welcome L-Squared as my co-contributer to What Is It Wednesday! She was doing something similar on her blog, and I thought...hey! Let's do this together, cause, you know, sometimes it's TOUGH thinking up photos to shoot ;-)

Here's a bit about L^2, in her own words:

I have a "dog's eye view" of the world as I rely on the eyes and intelligence of my Leader Dog (dog guide) Willow, a female, yellow (liver-nosed), Labrador Retriever to lead me through the chaos of my life. I also have a yellow (liver-nosed) pet Lab, Stella, who is a crazy, happy, never-ending bundle of energy. I have two Physics degrees, and a great love of astronomy (despite my inability to look up at the night sky and see anything but darkness). Other loves include crochet, music, photography, books, and writing.

So please give a hearty welcome to this talented photographer; it's her picture you'll be guessing today :-)

Here's last Wednesday's picture:

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And this is what it was cropped from:

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Some sea gull had a good meal!

DebR was the first one to get it right, altho she wasn't quite sure of what she was seeing: The background looks beachy, so I'm thinking maybe that could be part of a shell...or maybe a claw, like a crab claw? Although the edges don't quite look right to me for it to be that. Hhhmmm....

Here are the ones that amused me the most:
ME: A Blue Poppet after a really fun night with the pink poppet on the beach.
Transvestite Bait: looks like scaggy witches teeth or perhaps the claw of a, what were those creepy flying things in LoTRs? [two Tolkien references in two weeks, folks, she's on a role!]
Random and Odd: "FEED ME, SEYMORE!"
Robin: I'm going for burnt graham crackers - looks like there was a terrible s'more accident here.
Mel: I think it is something that a witch cooked up on the beach. She had her big black cauldrons, a pinch of bat hair, one frog, some spider legs and a giant crab claw, which fell onto the fire and burned the edges of it. Then the witch tossed it in and ate it all up. YUMMY!
T: Yikes, I'm thinking Larry the Lobster needs to use a stick or something to make his s'mores! Not just hold his ingredients over the flame of the bonfire! OUCH!

As always, thanks for playing!

So this week...

What is it?

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

What Is It Wednesday #81

Here's last Wednesday's picture:

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And this is what it was cropped from:

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a downed birch tree limb seen during a 5 hour hike in Vermont

Most of you got it; some of you very nicely amused me by saying Ent butts, Hedwig's eye, a 400 year old mystical spirit, the eye socket of Old Man Willow or some poor bastard who needs a plastic surgeon!

Also, DebR asked: "(Why are you doing WIIW on a whole separate blog now??)" I just wanted separate blogs for both the What Is It Wednesday and the Friday Fill-Ins. The first one to come up with a good reason wins a prize!

As always, thanks for playing! By the way, all photos used in What Is It Wednesday are marked as "private" in my flickr account...that's so no one can view the picture at a bigger size to get a better look!


So this week...
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What is it?

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

What Is It Wednesday #80

Welcome to the new home of What Is It Wednesday! Nice and clean and bright, just like how I wish my own home is! Many thanks to Heather for such a fantastic job. She has the unique ability to bring my ideas to life with minimum input from me. If you're looking for a new blog design, I have no problem recommending her design services wholeheartedly and with complete pleasure!

Here's last Wednesday's picture:

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And this is what it was cropped from:

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A beautiful, glossy Horse Chestnut atop a gorgeous autumn leaf. I still think the cropped pic looked like a baboon's butt!

Funny how many of you said slugs, or better yet, snails...mmmm, I'm hungry now!

Funniest:

Toss up between SilverWillow "A dried up date? And no, I am not refering to my last romantic encounter! LOL" and DebR "Uuuuhhhh...Damn. I don't even have a creatively smartass answer this week, never mind a genuine guess. What IS that thing??"

Weirdest:

Robin: "Hmmm...could it be that mummified baby that crazy family keeps as an heirloom in NH??" (she sent me the link to the newspaper article...eewwww!!!)

As always, thanks for playing! By the way, all photos used in What Is It Wednesday are marked as "private" in my flickr account...that's so no one can view the picture at a bigger size to get a better look!


So this week...
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What is it?