The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord still doesn't seem to be updating; so here's another contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

Fibonacci Poem

bake

day

clear and

bright with sun

and spices to warm

both the flesh and the hungry heart


Photos by: Osquer
Amish Friendship Bread by: Osquer

haiku (for SBS and Chickapea)

Lucky is little

Chickapea in the cozy

pod of your heart’s love!

OneWord - so little time [Chickapea]

“Well, my little Chickapea…” he sneered, twirling his moustache.

“First of all, it’s ‘my little Chickadee’, and second your moustache is still crooked. If you’re going to be a walking cliché, at least get it right.”

“Courses! Spoiled again!”

I shook my head.

“Toiled? No? Roiled? Boiled? Damn!”

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Thanks, SBS for an adorable word!

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord still doesn't seem to be updating; so here's another contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

Fibonacci Poem

It’s

not

every

day I find

a bent icicle

on the back bumper of my car.

Photo by: Osquer

haiku (for Dad)

Thank you, Daddy, for

being my first dance partner

all those years ago!

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Another meaning of the word cavalier is a lady's dance partner!

OneWord - so little time [cavalier]

"I just don't understand your cavalier attitude," I signed, exhasperated.

"I guess I'm just a romantic," he smiled sweeping off his plumed hat and sticking his sword in the ground by his booted foot.

"Yeah, but it doesn't exactly go with my costume," I grumbled tucking a gummy worm back into a fake wound. "I always think of Halloween as scary." I shrugged a hunched shoulder and went off to the masquerade party with the lone muskateer anyway.

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Wow, Dad! Thanks for a great word with so many meanings to choose from!

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord still doesn't seem to be updating; so here's another contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku (for Mom)

Window gazing, I

realize snow’s covering

both our yards right now.

Photo by: Osquer

OneWord - so little time [ignorant]

I had always done my best to remain ignorant of the personal lives of my co-workers. Working in intelligence, it was just too easy to delve into their hidden worlds and I was frankly afraid of what instabilities I might find. If I was going to rely on these people for my life, I was better off not knowing their skeletons by name. I also found the ostrich approach made it much easier to not care when one of the disappeared.

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Thanks for a word I wish we could do without, Mom!

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord still doesn't seem to be updating; so here's another contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku - "I give myself very good advice."

Scatter bitter thoughts,

shed them to the ground like a

cloak of shattered lies.

Photo by: Osquer

haiku (for Jay)

Honey, may our love

flow slow enough to fill our

whole life with sweetness.

OneWord - so little time [structure]

Photo by: Osquer

I had some difficulty climbing up the honeycombed wall of the chamber, but the stickiness of the surface and the multitude of corners in the hexagonal sections of the structure aided me in my ascent. I still wasn't sure if I'd been shrunk somehow or if I was dealing with some kind of giant mutant bees, but my first goal was to make it out of the hive alive.

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Thanks for the word, honey!

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord still doesn't seem to be updating; so here's another contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

55 Fiction Friday

Lady Eleanor’s eyelids struggled open, giving the impression, as she intended, that the Duke’s presence had revived her. She blinked up at him as if confused. She was nothing of the kind. She was merely using the incident to tighten her hold on His Grace’s attention. She had gained too much to be undone now.

[FIRST] [PREVIOUS] (to be continued...)

haiku (for Jay) ;-p "Godzilla vs. The Loch Ness Monster"

Be quite still lest an

imaginary monster

catch you lurking there.

Photo by: Osquer

OneWord - so little time [still]

I lay quite still in the tall grass and held my breath lest a bit of pollen make me sneeze. I had just managed to dismantle the still in time. The sheriff and his men were nearly to the clearing where I was crouching. Suddenly a car engine roared nearby. My brother had made it to the car. He would draw them off, giving me time to gather up the hooch and take it off in the truck.

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Thank you, Jay honey, for a versatile word.

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord still doesn't seem to be updating; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku

There’s nothing like the
pleasure of a new set of
kitchen canisters.

Photo by: Osquer

haiku (for Captain Jean-Luc Picard)

Nuance and intent

can create a rainbow out

of black and white print.

OneWord - so little time [rainbow]

She stood in the shallows, very stiil, her hand stretched out toward the waterfall. As I walked up behind her I could see that she was touching the edges of the mist frothed up by the waterfall with the tips of her fingers, tracing the edge of the rainbow that the sunlight painted there.

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Thanks, Captain Picard! You must really like that word. You gave me rainbow once before, but I don't mind. I came up with a completely different idea this time.

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord still doesn't seem to be updating; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku

Souverniers become

dried, paper thin. Memories

remain plump with life.

Photo by: Osquer

haiku (for Mom)

A Mom would not miss

your premiere even if she's

the whole audience.

OneWord - so little time [premiere]

Unfortunately he had chosen the wrong occasion for the premiere of his mechanical earthworm. His twin sister's clockwork squirrel which not only stole the nuts from his packed lunch but buried them in the worm's dirt tank completely stole the hearts of the judges at the science fair.

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I had to think for a second whether to use the noun or the verb of this one, Mom. Thanks for a versatile word.

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord still doesn't seem to be updating; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku

You’re not going to

believe what flavor dog food

someone's making now!

Photo by: Osquer

(Free sample from Pet Supplies Plus)

haiku (for Paperback Writer)

May life distract you

too much to notice headaches

‘til their pain is eased.

OneWord - so little time [headache]

"You have been without a doubt the most troublesome, incorrigible, obnoxious, stubborn headache it has ever been my misfortune to teach. However, your skills at math and at expertly handling your fellow students require of me that I offer you the position of my teaching assistant."

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Aw, Paperback Writer, I hope you're not having one of THOSE days!

Photo by: Osquer - Edinburgh, Scotland, January 2002

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord doesn't seem to be updating; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku

Snow clings, coating the

branches while I cling to my

coat, shaking off snow.

Photo by: Osquer

haiku (for Mom)

Any pawn can tell

you that even tiny steps

add up to big moves.

OneWord - so little time [pawn]

"I don't get it. Why did you say she made you feel like a prawn? Did she throw you in the pool? Dip you in cocktail sauce?"

"Now prawn, PAWN you idiot."

"Oh. So she would only let you take two steps at a time in a straight line?"

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"Thanks for another good word, Mom!

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord doesn't seem to have updated today; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku (for Jay)

It was fun to spend

the afternoon loafing in

the kitchen with you.

Photo by: Osquer

haiku (for Dad)

Childhood enigmas

don't make all that much more sense

after we grow up.

OneWord - so little time [enigma]

"You don't understand," he wailed, "without that box this mission is for nothing."

"Actually, the contents of the box were our mission. When I blew up the box I had already removed what we came to get. The guards saw me blow up an empty box." Just then Rex came running down the passageway with the Enigma Machine strapped to his back. "Good dog!" I praised him, slipping him a bite of jerky. "They'll give you a medal, boy!"

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Thanks, Dad, that's a great word!

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord doesn't seem to have updated today; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

Hey, Rob, I didn't think you'd mind if I let Pendragon write your haiku!

"What? Do you think you

look all that good when you’ve just

stepped out of the bath? "

Photo by: Osquer

OneWord - so little time [fire]

"Fire!" called out the sergeant, but nothing happened. "Fire!" He cried out again, but once more the men just stood there, their fingers on the triggers, but they would not shoot. "Why do you not fire?" He asked.

One of the men finally spoke, "Sir, the men have decided that no matter what crimes the prisoner is convicted of, we will not execute her. She is the only thing of beauty that has ever entered this prison and we will not destroy that beauty."

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Another good word, Rob, thanks!

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord doesn't seem to have updated today; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

OneWord - so little time [whisper]

Snowflakes flitted to the bare branches with a whisper so soft that I only imagined I could hear it. Their delicate forms melded into one another like people becoming cliques… becoming groups…becoming a crowd. Their individual forms lost in their effect.

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Thank you, my dear Jay, for a lovely word to write about. You know me so well.

haiku (for Jay)

Your kisses whisper

to my skin like snowflakes to

bare winter branches.

55 Fiction Friday

“Eleanor!”

Lady Eleanor was quite pleased to hear her Christian name torn in a gasp from the duke’s lips. It took all of her self control to prevent a satisfied smirk from overtaking her lips, but she did not even flutter an eyelid until he lunged to her side and took her hand in his.

[FIRST] [PREVIOUS] (to be continued...)

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord doesn't seem to have updated today; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku (for Rob)

I’ll try anything

to give my reptilian

winter skin moisture.

Photo by: Osquer

OneWord - so little time [reptilian]

“Get your reptilian fingers off me!” I snarled at him.

“Reptiles don't have fingers,” he replied, and to my unsurprised horror launched into a ridiculously detailed description of the reptile anatomy. Oh, well, at least it distracted him from trying to make another inept pass at me.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 21:30 EST

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Thanks for an unexpected word, Rob. Let's see if I can work it into a haiku.

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord doesn't seem to have updated today; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku (for Paperback Writer)

My life may not have

magazine gloss but it does

have brilliant color!

Photo by: Osquer
(Click on photo to enlarge.)

One Word - so little time [magazine]

He emptied the entire magazine into the corpse, but it was no use. It just kept coming. "That's the problem with zombies, they just won't stay down." He gritted throught his teeth to me.

"Don 't say the zed word." I gasped, handing him another clip. "And aim for the head."

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 19:47 EST

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Sorry about the violent bent of this drabble, Paperback Writer. I think I've been watching too much news and 24 and BBC.

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

OneWord doesn't seem to have updated today; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku (for Mom)

The continuum

of family weaves a thread

of home through the world.

One word, so little time [continuum]

The continuum of my thoughts was not only monotonous, but unbroken. Not only did my surroundings fail to distract me from the nagging notion which would not leave me alone, but they served to reinforce it with the influence of coincidental song lyrics on the radio and the scrambled headline of a folded newspaper.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 16:26 EST

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Thanks for a good word, Mom. I knew what it meant from having heard it and read it in context, but I never had the occassion to look it up before. I always enjoy a new vocabulary word.

haiku (for Dad)

It is a funny

card. Happy Birthday, Daddy!

I gotcha covered!

Photos by: Osquer
(Click on photos to enlarge.)

The Pick Osquer's OneWord Contest...

Well, OneWord doesn't seem to have updated today; so here's a contest to pick a word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

haiku (for Jay)

Photo by: Osquer

Last balloon floating

from a bunch first sent flying

sixty-eight days past…

Photo by: Osquer, December 3, 2006

Balloons inflated November 9, 2006

www.oneword.com - one word, so little time [create]

[Osquer 42]

I had attempted to create a new identity for myself, but even in my choice of pseudonym, my reality seeped through. I couldn't resist making an anagram of my real name. Sure the sound didn't match my ethnicity, but then it could be a married name. Hopefully it wasn't a guise I would need for long anyway.

January 15, 2007 05:48 PM (20:48 EST)

haiku (for Jay)

With bright sparks and a

warm glow, these fireworks fill my

heart with your romance.

Photo by: Osquer
Flowers from: Jay

www.oneword.com - one word, so little time [well]

[Osquer 42]

I looked down into the well, but couldn't see a thing. "I don't know, girl, I think you're wrong for once. Timmy's not in the well." Lassie began barking again. "Oh, I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you properly before. You see, church services had just ended and I was ringing the big bell..."

January 14, 2007 04:51 PM (19:51 EST)

haiku (for Jay)

So pleasant to hear

you singing in the next room

while I'm baking bread.

Photo by: Osquer

www.oneword.com - one word, so little time [ample]

[Osquer 42]

I had ample motivation to finish my task. The wizard who was gazing into the globe that was linked the one on my desk had imprisoned my entire clan in his power generator. I carefully mixed the compounds that would eat through the wall of the chamber and set them free. Once they were free, he would be powerless and I could rid the kingdom of him.

January 13, 2007 10:04 AM (13:04 ESt)

55 Fiction Friday

Lady Eleanor Weatherby approached the library. She planned things too carefully to ever be truly surprised. She was, however, shocked to see the image of her dead sister sitting opposite her own portrait. Her missing niece! She carefully assessed the situation and, judging it to be to her best advantage, fainted dramatically on the threshold.

[FIRST] [PREVIOUS] (to be continued...)

haiku (for Tom)

There’s something about

flambé that transforms mere lunch

to an adventure.

Photos by: Osquer

Flames by: Tom
(Who introduced himself as our "Japanese White Guy"
I have it on good authority that Nakama only has one employee who is actually Japanese. What they do have is fantastic food!)

[Click on photos to enlarge.]

www.oneword.com - one word, so little time [scent]

[Osquer 42]

She had caught his scent and began to strain at the leash. "Okay, girl okay," I reassured her, "We're with you."

"Do you really think we'll find him?"

"If this dog has anything to say about it we will. He saved her as a puppy and she's determined to do the same for him now!"

January 12, 2007 04:18 PM (19:18 EST)

haiku

Okay, Pittsburghers,

name the tunnel entrance this

lion head graces.

(Here’s a hint: This photo was taken from nearby.)

Photo by: Osquer
(Click on photo to enlarge.)

www.oneword.com - one word, so little time [cent]

[Osquer 42]

"I'm not paying one cent for that scent." He spluttered. "You got it all wrong. It was supposed to be 33 and 1/3 parts lilac to 66 2/3 parts lavender, not the other way around!" He stormed out; nearly knocking the bell from over the door he slammed it so hard.

"Oh well. I sighed to the cat. "I like it better this way. I'll just wear it myself." The cat purred on indifferently.

January 11, 2007 06:04 PM (21:04 EST)

haiku

Too busy trying

to avoid Medusa’s eye,

we can’t see her tears.

Photos by: Osquer - September 3, 2006
(Click on photos to enlarge.)