sycamore, man, I love ya, but you look exactly the same in every single picture. :lol:

I like this particular pic though because I look stoned and I'm totally not.

Great hair cut! :)

I'm sorry. ;)

'ere

Tulip, that cut is adorable on you.

BTW, is that a salt shaker behind you - on the back far right of the shelf ? It looks close to one I once had. My brother gave it to me when he was in the Navy.

Great cut Tulip. :)

I love how observant you are! I also like to look at people's backgrounds in pictures...kind of a peek into their world. :)

LOL. I was checking out the work desk area...I couldn't tell if she was at home or a work setting.

:heartpump

Thanks, everyone. I wasn't sure if it suits me or not. My sister said I now need new clothes to fit with my hair, and someone else said I can no longer be wearing lounge clothes with this hair. :p: And a number of people said I look older. :yelsick: Oh well...might as well look my age. :p: Hehe....Now, for that salt shaker. I'm not sure what you're looking at. Those things on a small shelf on the right, under the pictures is part of my flashlight collection and some lighters. Yeah, it's my desk at home. Looking at my mess, you wouldn't know how anal I am. :right: I take my work home and sometimes sit there to work too. It's my work station at home. :D

Btw, Pico, do point out what you're talking about. I am curious to what is it that looks like a salt shaker.

Great haircut Tulip. Why buy new clothes unless you particularly feel like it or are going for a complete image change?

One thing that really annoys me is when every single photo that people take on holiday is in front of some landmark or scenery. Either it's a people shot or a scenery shot. It shouldn't be both as people in the scenery shots ruins the scenery and when it's every single photo, quite frankly it's boring...and how likely is that you're going to need to prove that you were actually there by producing photographic evidence.

I never thought about it casi, but now that you mention it. You are right!

So that's what niggles at the back of my brain when I see boring vacation shots with the person's head blocking out Mnt. Rushmore. (or whatever)

No, no. That is Mount Rushmore.

I wish I still had mine I would take a pic of it, but it really looks like this one...

Ahhh....it's my flashlight. :D Here's a close look of it, and my flashlight collection.

er... is that flashlight collection just a convenient excuse to have a lot of batteries on hand?

Most of them use rechargeable batteries so I need lots on hand. ;)

In case of a major power failure you can rent them out!

..but I don't see teeny tiny skinny flashlights. I would want one of those.

damn. I can NEVER find my flashlight when I need it!

Nice collection. Do you have any that you shake or wind-up to charge?

You can buy/ download much better pics of landmarks than you can ever take. Why not have a pic of someone you love in front of it, so you can treasure that for years to come? The monument will not change. Your lover will.

I learned a lot, being a solo traveller. Photos of famous landscapes have already been done. It's the intimate that speaks to people and evokes memories. Hence my pictures of... me... and food... and me and food...

I'm on a couple of films that I wonder about... I asked a Japanese man to take a photo of my (then) husband and I in Trafalger Square. His price was to have a photo with me. And he really squeezed me close! I was quite small in those days, and had striped hair. He might have thought I was a Spice Girl.

And again in Egypt - a whole pack of schoolboys asked the Evil Ex if they could have pictures with me. He agreed, probably without realising every single one of them would want a separate photo. Once he did, he just found it really funny. I was goosed more than once.

Absolutely right Sundae. The photos are taken to spark a memory later, not for some imaginary art show.

Damn Tulip, that close-up looks nothing like what I see in the other picture. It must the way the light is reflecting on it, but to me it looked like a smooth pearly white porcelain cylindrical shape with a design of blueish something-or-other in the middle and a band of blue on the very top and very bottom.

lol

Can definitely see what you're saying, but I'm talking more about when someone shows you their holiday snaps and everyone single one is a photo of them in the same pose with the same forced smile in front of a different landmark.

Occasionally, not often, I've surprised myself with an amazing photo of some scenery which had I put myself or someone else in it, wouldn't have been nearly as good.

Having said that, another reason is that I generally, don't like photos of myself (which is one reason I have never posted any of myself on this forum).

Any speaking of being in photos that you're not sure about, I was walking through one of the squares today (there aren't many here) and I saw someone point a camera, probably purely because I'm a Caucasian) and was very glad I had my sunglasses on.

That's funny Casi, I pictured you as being more italicized.

italicised as in Italian?

No, I was attempting to make a joke about how in a picture thread you posted a bunch of words in lieu of a picture and the words were in regular type. So, you,RFN, was realized as words. You don't strike me as bold or all caps, but you're more than just regular type, so italicized.

Uh...how skinny teeny you're talking about? There's a thin, long blue one right there on the left. It's a size of a pen. There are short ones sitting there that are hella bright. Umm...there's one I really like but didn't buy. Let me borrow from my brother and show it to you. It's skinny and teeny tiny and bright! Pretty too. :D Btw, do you want bright? If all you want is an okay bright, then there's that blue one sitting there. Wait, are you being sarcastic?

Um....no. I want to reply -- HELL NO! But doesn't want to offend anyone who does. :p:

hehe...I actually understood his joke. He is so witty that half of his jokes go over my head. :blush:

I can't speak for everyone, but I'm sure lots of us don't post pix of ourselves because we like the way we look. We post our pix to share ourselves and our lives with others in this forum. It makes a person more real than just words where a person would have to visualize. Of course, if you post alot of opinions and comments, others get to know your inner self. The inner and outer self completes the picture. :)

That's probably a good thing, actually. ;)

Well said.

HA! funny

Ahhhhhhhhhhh now I understand. Definitely more than just a regular type but intermittently on the slow side.

rfn less than 5 mins ago.....

still rolling your own smokes, huh? poor guy. we got them fancy filtered ones up north

lol, nah i actually like them! sometimes at the track when i'm shooting the shit with a customer i start rolling and they offer me a "real" cig, i say no, this is a real cig! i like them. if i made my old salary i would still smoke them. :)

ach... I was being cute. I thought it was a jirnt

lmao!!!! nawwww even though i'm grounded, i can't smoke that stuff. would like to but i can't. peepee tests in enjuneerin too ya know!

i'm just waiting for the day a cop pulls me over thinking i'm smoking a blunt. hope it's after i get my license back though. october.

RF earlier today. I kinda look like the Michelin woman but its freezing here! I have to give our 5 year old red bull "Horatio" a bit of feed before I hop over this panel to retrieve his feeder that he has bopped way across his pen. He is not mean, he is just big, [2500lbs+] and he gets excited to be fed and rubs his head into your chest which can lift you off your feet, so I keep him busy with a bit of grain! :) ♥

That is so cool.

I'm envious of Nirvana's life.

Someday I'll leave my social work-like job, break free from the cubicle, spread my wings and fly...towards something more along the lines of 'vana's sweet set-up. :)

Hi Nirvana! Hi Nirvana's cow!

That's the biggest frigging chihuahua I've ever seen. Holy crap.

It's a chihuahuahuahuahuahuahuahuahuahuahuahuahua!

That's a lot of bull.

Oh HLJ, don't be such a cow herd.

red bull gives you wings?

My Blazer blew a radiator hose off one time, and I happened to be right by a little stream. I had a bukkit, so I pulled in, replaced my heater hose, and climbed a little fence went to the stream & got my water. On the second trip, I looked over to my left, and there stands the biggest red angus bull I ever saw. Must've literally weighed a ton (prolly more). About thirty feet from where I had climbed the fence, was one of those tube gates you see on farms and such. On the gate was a laminated sign:

"Warning: Do Not Enter. Bad, bad bull."

I didn't push my luck.

[applause]

thread winner!

At the range less than an hour ago. I worked hard arranging my shot pattern so it looks like a shotgun blast. Well at least I qualified. LOL

Nic pic Sarge, that guy looks like he deserved it! :)

You look different, Sarge. Couldn't recognize you without the foil over your face. :p:

Me, yesterday, skinning out a rattlesnake that about bit me.

niiiiiice! hey! i'll break out the deep fryer!! beer battered rattler coming right up!

say, what is the common name for that rattler? around these parts are diamond backs. i don't recognize the pattern....

nice shootin' there chief!