Challenges

This week’s Header Challenge is Fountain, called by Imac.  There are no fountains on the farm, and I don’t believe there is one in our little town nor even the outskirts of the Big City.  So I had to make do, I don’t have gobs of time to run around with my camera looking for fountains.

First I was just going to take a quick pic of one of the tubs of daffs and call it a fountain, but then I decided I’d take a few more minutes and arrange about three of them to look a bit more fountainy. 

Then I knew that the others, would think that I had stretched it way too far and so I decided to take the flowers down by the pond in the front yard to at least have a hint of water feature. 

Since I was dragging a couple of pots down there I decided to take all of the very yellow and newly bloomed ones down to the far side of the pond to construct a “fountain”. 

It’s not like I didn’t already have a lot of work to do, and I was certainly not going to get any help from my farm mates.  But I was surprised that Dirt helped a little. 

“Do you have your inhaler with you,” he huffed as he went by with real work in hand. 

Well if he doesn’t approve of how I spend chore time at least he cared if I killed myself with my silliness.  All in all the photo is so much less than I had hoped for…  I didn’t get back far enough to capture enough to make it fit my header, the focus was a constant issue (might have something to do with the little water accident a week or so ago).  In the end the duckies came along to cheer me up, so out of a bazillion hastily taken poor photos I went with the girls.  They look so carefree don’t you think?  Like they’re swiming in a fancy fountain.

Check out the side board for the others in this challenge, I’ve already peeked, they’re all good but I do have my favorites, bet you’ll never guess… I’m late for a very important date, Bet and I are going up to see Anna and her wonderful Skagit Valley in the morning and leaving Dirt girl-less to fend for himself.  We’ll be back just in time to have Easter with the other girls and families.  So sorry this is all so rushed, I should have gone with my first inclination of bowing out of this one, but the magic word for me is “challenge”, I never turn one down even though I don’t have a real good track record with many of the challenges in life, but the point is being in the race right?  Isn’t that what your mom always told you?