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February Contest Image
Try your hand at coming up with a winning caption!
I Love My Administrative Professionals!
Darn! I forgot until today that it was Administrative Professionals Week! If I had planned in advance I would have ordered a year’s supply of this sticky note
…for everyone in the office.
I Love Not Camping
When my partner and I first bought our dream land in New Mexico, we visited it in our tent (that little blue dot) for several years before we built a home. I loved camping! The air! The stars! Being totally immersed in all this rugged Northern New Mexico beauty! I even loved camping in the rain!
It was so wonderful I swore that even after we built our home I would still camp out several times a year. We moved into our home in December of 1999. Guess how many times I’ve camped out since then?
(If you guessed 0 you are correct.)
The Wonders of Nature
I’ve been spending a peaceful morning contemplating the wonders of nature… as seen through my vast collection of scenic postcards.
| Specifically I’ve been wondering how they got these six birch trees in Newberry, Michigan… |  |
| to grow in exactly the same configuration as these birch trees in Rangeley Lakes, Maine… |  |
I’m guessing that the real trees are in Maine, because the Maine folks have an actual name for them. I may be the victim of a clever marketing campaign… but I do find “Six Sisters” somewhat more convincing than “Greetings from Newberry Michigan.”
AARP
Oops! Looks as though I forgot to post this article by mystery and nonfiction writer Pat Remick. It appeared 3 weeks ago in AARP’s online magazine.
Anne Taintor’s Vintage Humor
For 25 years, the artist has turned catchy sayings coupled with vintage photos of glamorous women into a successful product lineTwenty-five years ago, single mother and frustrated artist Anne Taintor glued the words “intellectuals gone bad” onto a vintage magazine ad showing two glamorous women from the 1950s, launching a career that has led to her being described as “the patron saint of female frustration” and “queen of collage kitsch.”
From her rural New Mexico studio, Taintor, 56, now presides over the multimillion-dollar Anne Taintor Inc. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based enterprise sells greeting cards and 23 other products—all with clever, often irreverent captions that convey Taintor’s interpretation of what those idealized housewives in glossy ads from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s may actually have been thinking.
Her creations juxtapose humorous phrases like “funny … I don’t recall asking your opinion” and “stop me before I volunteer again” against stylized, brightly colored photos that decorate a range of Taintor merchandise, including note cards, office supplies, bags and accessories, bar ware and even air fresheners and lip balm.
Mint Jelly
Sheesh! Give you folks a lovely picture of a sweet little girl and her darling pet lambs, and all most of you can think is “pass the mint jelly”. Not a whole lot of vegetarians amongst you, are there? There were many variations on this bloodthirsty theme, and once again I had a very hard time making up my mind, but I think that Kathy Zonin said it best:
I’m trying to limit myself to one winner per month, so this month it’s Kathy… but I thought I’d share a couple more that I enjoyed.
