During the winter, Oslo gets snow. However, when the temperatures are very low, it doesn't stick to the trees. We recently had a bit of snow while the temperatures were around freezing, and it came down as fluffy, sticky stuff. And thus this picture from sunrise.
Tjuvholmen is,roughly translated, "Thief Island." Back in the day this small bit of an island was used to deal with miscreants and scofflaws. However today, after a mighty bit of construction, it is a hip center of nightlife with lots and lots of restaurants. Above those ground-floor restaurants are some business offices, and quite a lot of apartments, with the buildings averaging maybe 8 stories tall. All this is right on the Oslo Fjord.
This plant root was growing downward in open space from a rock overhang on Chimanta Tepui in Venezuela. It had a slime ball at the end, which was dripping water.
Look, this is supposed to be silly, and even photographed to make it look like it only has two legs. So give it a giggle and I'll try to be more serious tomorrow.
Anyway, this beastie arose when I was asked some variant of the standard kid question, "I'm bored, what can I do?" I told him to go make a food animal. Now this is something he had never heard of, and I had never done, so we ended up combining our non-existent knowledge and skills, and came up with what you see here. As you can guess from the result, we did not Google up some site with great ideas on it, but just made it up as we went along. It is a sheep (yes, it is a sheep, so stop telling me it is a seal) made out of a red potato, celery, the end of an English cucumber, and whipped cream. Toothpicks keep it together and were used for eyes. |
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