Thank you for this challenge, WordPress. I see now why I am not a world famous photographer. Ninety-nine percent of my photos are taken straight on. Some of them point slightly up or down, but by and large, I stand and shoot. I’m a straight shooter.
“Could you look up a balance for me?” I asked a Bank manager in Palm Springs while I visited in that city.
“OK, I cheated a little. Forgive me. Scardy Kitty, quit looking up at me like that!”
“Meeedoooooowwwwwwnnnnnnnn”
“Yes, you are down. I couldn’t resist, Scardy. When I was busy texting and not driving, I looked up nearly jumped out of the car trying to get a picture of this fellow.”
“You are not improving, Marsha. That’s still not up.” Scardy whined at me in the background as I typed.
How’s this? A ceiling. Is that better?
“That’s more like it. I could sit in that window and chase birds if they flew in.”
“You’re dreaming now, Scardy. How would you even get up to those windows? They are high!”
“Look up, Marsha, I’d jump on that chair, and up I’d go!”
“You’re going to use up one of your nine lives trying to jump on that chair, Scardy. Three Rivers artist Martha Windmann designed that chair.”
“Very funny. It’s just a picture anyway. Look up over there. What is that thing? I see you in it!”
“That’s another piece of artwork, Scardy, made of phones and tablets. I found that in the San Jose Museum of Art in September of 2015.”
“My head is spinning. I can’t keep looking up much longer.”
“Take a break, go walk that railing up there. The exercise will do you good, and you can look down from up there.”
“Wait until you see this building sized praying mantis, Scardy! You won’t be complaining about the bugs around our house any more, Scardy.”
“Help, get me out of here. I want to get back to looking straight ahead.”
“You got me started with your snide remarks about my definitions of ‘looking up.’”
“I like cheetahs, could we get one?”
“You would have to look up to it, respect its authority. Are you sure you want another cat telling you what to do?”
“Let me think about that. Good try, BTW, Marsha. I caught that when you tried to sneak in another definition for look up. Not funny.
Wow, what’s this? I never thought you get a picture of a UFO, Marsha.”
“Marsha, where are you? Marsha?”
“Marsh………!”
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24 responses to “How Many Ways Can You Find to Look-up?”
Great post! I looked up once in a pub to find old portraits had been hung on the ceiling which it turns out was not because I had had one too many but a real thing. There is so much lovely architecture up high that we mss as we wander around our city centres too.
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How cool! I’ve never seen that! 🙂
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Loved looking up with you! Wow! I’m impressed you looked up such an amazing bank manager!!
Looking up at Frank’s work is always uplifting.
DODGING FIRE ???? I’ll never look up to that!!
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Thank you so much, Melinda. I found I had more up-looking photos than I thought! 🙂
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You’re welcome, Marsha. Glad you weren’t too busy to look up!
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Love your take of “look up” 🙂
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Thanks so much. I’m up with that! 🙂
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Too fun. Loved looking up with you and Scardy. Really awesome and interesting art displays! The, er, bighorn sheep? was fascinating, too- trotting over for a lick-lunch on the Hoover Dam, I presume? Enjoying an appetizer on the way, clearly. I have always wanted to visit the dam.
Some goats climb trees as well as dams. Did you know this? Here you are-
By the way, that praying mantis is astounding…very cool.
Love the eyes on that leopard, and such lovely teeth.
Too man grins at the end. Hope you made it back to Earth safely.
Cheers,
st
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My husband saw them years ago and when they told him that there were goats climbing trees he thought they are making a joke. He still loves to tell the story 😉
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Oh, what a riot! Nature is endlessly surprising and fabulous. Apparently, we have goats to thank for coffee, too.
How wonderful for your husband. Where did he see them? I would love to hear the full story. I am one green-faced toad. Lucky fellow! 😀
Cheers,
smiling toad
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I think he said it was in Morocco… 🙂
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Splendid. I must go.
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Another reader just said the same thing and gave me this link.
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🙂
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Sorry, I’m writing to you from a distant planet now. Fortunately, they have had internet for centuries. 🙂
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😀 😛
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Haha..cute conversation.
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Thanks! He’s quite a whiner. 🙂
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You had more “looking up” photos than you thought. That cat has a scary face!
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We named him because he was too scared to let us help him get him out of the tree when he was a kitten. He was scared to be in the tree and scared to leave it. 🙂
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Fun post! Great mix of photos!
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Thanks Tricia. I had fun with it. 🙂
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Great shots for the theme! The first one was refreshing just because!
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Really? I’m glad. She was amazing. 🙂
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