Why I love Cee’s Oddball Challenge
- Because there is no theme other than odd ball, it is easy to choose pictures ahead of time.
- Since there’s no theme but odd, it’s easy to write and schedule this challenge.
- Even though Cee makes all her challenges easy because she announces the themes weeks in advance, this one is easy to choose pictures. That earns me hours away from the computer!
Yesterday I went through about a third of my pictures and pulled out 40 that I thought would work. Some of them I took on purpose because they were odd when I saw them. Others are odd because I took them and wondered why!
Even odder, why did I keep them?
Odd Pictures or Odd Thinking?
Now the only decision I need to make is to share the odd pictures or my odd thinking. Which would you prefer?
I’ll do one of each and see which one you like best, how’s that?
This was in my Hawaii pictures from January when we visited with Mr. & Ms. Eternal Traveler, and, of course, Justin Beaver. Maybe Carol knows what this is. Since it was with other shopping pictures we took of the ritzy shops in Wailea on Maui, she might even have a post about it.
By the way, Carol is a famous guest poster, and I just found this published article of hers on Google in the Hiker’s Handbook. Way to go, Carol!
All the explanation you are going to get from me is, “I just think it’s cool.”
Since reputation for having the ability to think is at stake here, I’d better explain myself.
Actually, this picture is unique and well-composed according to my daddy’s teaching. It’s framed with a pretty weed on the left. The gold and brown colors coordinate. And it has a bright rusty contrast.
I’m so defensive…
My reasoning for taking and keeping this
The real reason I took this picture was to help collect donations.
The Woodlake Chamber of Commerce found out this year that they own the sign that sits on CA State Highway 198, the main highway that goes from the coast to the Sequoia National Park. The sign alerts travelers that there is a cute, friendly, cowboy town north of the freeway a few miles with the best fries in the state.
Believe me you don’t want to go to the coast on Highway 198 with a motor home!
Or to the park either, for that matter, the hairpin turns are narrow and mountainous. That means wind and scary drop-offs. We did it at night one time, and I thought my husband would have a heart attack.
Back to the sign.
The Woodlake Chamber of Commerce is NOT wealthy! And suddenly it owns a sign that is falling down, and now we know it’s our responsibility to fix it. We could ask businesses and other clubs to donate, and we will probably do that because signs are expensive.
But now we are fundraising by selling donation tickets to win a trip to Maui – my husband and my favorite vacation spot.
So this is one of the photographs I took to document the need to replace it – as if the fading picture is not enough reason!
So now you have enough evidence to choose.
Which do you like better, odd picture or odd thinking?
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If you thought it was stupid, share it with your enemies. JK, don’t do that. Just ignore them. Maybe they will go away.
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