Wordless Wednesday
Bless Us Every One
Yesterday I received an early Christmas gift in the form of a humbling experience. As I walked out the door of a downtown card shop, a person walked past dressed in a rather outlandish outfit. A pair of cut-off lycra shorts were pulled over a pair of shiny taupe tights. They wore a rainbow wig whose luscious waves tumbled hallway down the back of a red hoodie. Atop the wig they sported a pair of short white bunny ears. A blue suede purse rested on one hip and three large but flat Christmas gift bags dangled from the opposite arm. A bouquet of festive mylar balloons tied with red curling ribbon and covered in Christmas cookies and holiday wishes floated above them. I followed behind snapping a photo and rationalizing the invasion by the fact you couldn’t see their face. We met up at the corner and while we waited for some cars to pass I remembered today’s Random Act of Kindness. “Start-up a friendly chat”. “Are you Santa’s Christmas bunny?” I asked
The Pirate Ship cake is a beauty. I wish my mum had made cakes like that for my birthdays! Actually, in 2014, Harriet sent in a photo of a Polar Bear birthday cake (that my ex, Heather, had made for Sophie's birthday a few years ago) to a women's magazine & she won a $100 prize. Whoever made this cake should be a winner too.
ReplyDeleteYour sense of composition is very good, Suzan. I really like the "Reflections" & "Wintry Trees" photos. Incidentally, it was 42.2 C here the day you posted this.
Thanks for your kind comments Nick. That's actually a pinata, not a cake, but it's easy to see how it could be confusing. I can definitely see how the frilly paper could be mistaken for chocolate icing. And not too many 54 years have pinata's on their birthdays. The chocolate covered coins and lotto tickets went inside.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's a very good pinata...but how do you hang it up? It's a pity you didn't have any entries to the US$2.2 Billion Lottery that was drawn in the USA in the last day or so.
ReplyDeleteWe hung the pinata from the roof of our deck with bungie chords. You can't see it but there's a loop at the top of the sail. That might have helped you tell it wasn't a cake. It was really too sturdy a pinata and most of the coins came out of the place I'd put them in.
DeleteShouldn't have used Carbon Fibre for the piñata' s construction. I wonder if Mike received my card yet....judging by his pensive look in the last photo, I'd say, " Not yet."
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