The Answers and another Challenge!

Mystery Close-Up Pictured above Before being used..

THE ANSWER

Thanks to those who tried to guess what the close up photos were in my last post, and hey it's OK....Like the song goes "2 Out of three ain't bad"

The Correct Answers were...

1. Red Pepper Flakes
2. Chocolate Milk Shake
3. Denim Jeans

Dawtch was the closest in her second attempt and I love that she came back to try again. She went with hot cocoa rather than a cold Chocolate Shake (-:

MOMZY Cannot guess the current mystery close-up because she helped me with the lighting, but I always welcome her comments...NO HINTS MOMZY!!

Go Ahead, take a guess....all I will say is it's a utilitarian item...I may throw another image at you all if no one gets it right away.

Now I am off to ponder the next thing the Governor of Massachusetts may decide he wants to tax...currently he has proposed hiking the state's gas tax by 19 cents per gallon to a nation-leading 42.5 cents per gallon

He doesn't have a problem with this because his car is filled with gas paid for by Massachusetts Taxpayers !!

Close Ups

I've been experimenting with a setting on my camera that allows me to take extreme close-up pictures using the Super Macro setting.

As I haven't been able to come up with a decent post I thought about challenging any readers that may stumble upon my lonely page to guess what they are looking at in the next three pics.

#1

#2

#3

Good Luck

Whole Lotta Rosie !!

If you are tired of your current dasktop wallpaper, this Rose makes a pretty good one.

Happy Valentine's Day

Paintings by Ron Mueller

I saw this painting the other day and I have to say it took me by surprise. It was painted by the father of a friend of mine.

I guess at first I thought it was just a simple study of flowers in acrylic paint, but it was more complex than that.

Those are some crazy petals !!

I wonder if Ron is just using the flowers to illustrate people. Showing us that despite differences between us, it's still possible to grow and even flourish together.

I don't know...I guess I'll have to ask him.

Here's another painting, a water color that he did shortly after the 9/11 disaster in NY..

I am afraid my camera does not do Ron's art much justice, this picture is actually quite large and I couldn't get the entire picture into one frame.

A closer look at the "Angels helping each other" in the picture

I really could not come up with a post today, but Ron's pictures are worth, at least, a thousand words.

The Perfect Girl

An Irish Joke

Subject: Irish Robbery

An armed hooded robber bursts into the Bank of Ireland and forces the tellers to load a sack full of cash. On his way out the door with the loot one brave Irish customer grabs the hood and pulls it off, revealing the robber's face.

The robber shoots the guy without hesitation!

He then looks around the bank to see if anyone else has seen him. One of the tellers is looking straight at him and the robber shoots him also.

Everyone by now is very scared and looking down at the floor. " Did anyone else see my face?" calls the robber.

There are a few moments of silence, then one elderly Irish gent, looking down, tentatively raises his hand and says:

"I think me wife may have caught a glimpse...."

Boston Via Cambridge

Driving a little out of the way, I headed into Boston today with my nephew and his friend "Chester" who we dropped off at his Frat house on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, MA

I managed to bypass the $3.50 toll and see a few things we don't always see just speeding down the highway. And I am pretty sure it did not cost us $3.50 in gas to take the long way.

I snapped these pics when we dropped "Chester" off,

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We stopped at Brookline Smokehouse and ate dinner. I had a rack of BBQ Ribs, corn bread and potato salad with a order of their Homemade Jalapeno Poppers...AWESOME BABY !!

Then we headed to the South End to check on a property we have been trying to De-Ice, a friend of mine owns the house but he's in Florida now, poor thing, I think it was like 80 degrees there today.

Later I took another pic on West Concord Street in the South End...

and yes it's from atop the "Red Rocket" and as dirty as the car was, we still were able to get a "Red Rocket Reflection" picture...if you don't know what that is go back and read about the other Reflections in the series.....

Commonwealth Road

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Red Rocket Reflections