#6 Bananarama

When it comes to food, I love a bit of anthropomorphism.  Given the chance, I will draw a face* on anything.  ANYTHING.** 
I could write something deep and meaningful here about how and why the human mind is programmed to recognise faces in inanimate objects, why it gives us comfort to humanise the things around us. 
Or I could just show you some photos of bananas instead!

So this month I have mostly been 'banana bombing'.


Beach Banana

A homage to the sexy banana lady I left in a cafe in New York.  Sunning her lithe banana body on the rocks, she pouts seductively for the camera.

Bench Banana

It's actually really hard to take photos of bananas on benches, especially when it's sunny and there are loads of mums and toddlers around.

Banana Bird

I was visiting my knitted leaves at the Woollen Woods with a wonderful old friend - captured here as a beautiful yellow bird amongst the branches.

Banana Drama!!

Mr Banana, nooooooo - don't fall off the cliff into the raging waterfall below !!

Banana Llama Alpaca

It's okay kids, he survived.  Only to encounter a deadly alpaca herd!!  Run for your life Mr Banana!!

Bonus Banana

Some careless picnickers had left a bare banana hidden at the bottom of a tree!  I took the liberty of livening him up a bit.

Today's post has been brought to you by the letter B, and the colour yellow.  Tune in next week to see what happens when I buy too many courgettes at the grocers.

*If you're lucky, it's a face.
**Seriously, don't leave me unattended with a pen.  Even a Miss Bic.

Find Three More Things

Here are today's hidden treasures from my rambly ramble around the woods and hills:

1) Hedge Milk!

 

2) Bat Cap!

3) The Key to Someone's Heart?

And I found a sound too, but took a picture of it...

*What trees sound like when they kiss*

(I was startled by a loud smoochy sound whilst getting lost in some bluebell woods.  It took me a while to realise that it was the sound of two intertwined branches of this tree creaking as they rubbed up against each other in the breeze.  Beautiful.)

#5d Cards Within... erm...Eggs

After seeing her handiwork last month, mum's other half wanted to get in on the 'cards within cards' action himself.  So I spied an opportunity and slipped a sneaky postcard into his Easter egg...

Here's what landed on my doormat this week, to much delight and chortling:

A thousand words paint a picture, especially when written in such lovely handwriting!
Thank you!

#5c Cards within Cards

Hidden inside a Mothers' Day package.  Returned to a grateful sender as follows (thanks mum!)...

WTF Wyoming!?

Saturday it rained.  I needed some excitement.  Time for a second round of some coin flippin' road trippin'...

I found I had misplaced my trusty Canadian coin, but lo - a US quarter from the state of Wyoming would fit the bill perfectly in its stead.

We set off with a toss limit* of 32 and some general rules about directions, and were immediately plunged into full-on rurality by this dastardly little coin.  It is very hard even to toss double figures when you're on a narrow country lane with no turn-offs** for (country) miles.  By toss 13, and having already been led into 2 dead ends, I had had enough of Wyoming's tricks and just wanted some lunch!

All the best rules are made to be broken.  I could see that this coin was going to lead us, literally, up the garden path, so we decided to stop it in its tracks and head for the nearest place serving food in the vicinity.
As luck would (sometimes) have it, we stumbled into an exceedingly local food festival being held in a village hall!  Anyone for a sample of smoked sausage?

*phnar
**turns-off?

Find Three Things...

Here's a challenge to sharpen your awareness next time you're out and about.
Find and record three things you didn't expect.  They could be sights, sounds, smells, tastes, or, erm, feels.
Here are my three unexpected sights from a walk last week.  They're pretty boring though, so I'm going to challenge myself to do better next time...

"It's so hipster I could die"

Danke für meine Postkarte aus Berlin!