Photo A Day: Mean Pansies!
In honor of getting a new camera and needing a reason to play with it…welcome to my Photo A Day! Topic: Whatever strikes my fancy. Frequency: Daily-ish, I hope.Sure, of course, pansies are beautiful, delicate little flowers that bloom in the spring and are extra-precious because they have elfin faces and you just know they uproot themselves and dance around at night and it's always fun to anthropomorphize a plant, isn't it? Particularly if it can be anthropomorphized into something sprite-like and magickal (with a k, not a typo), right?Or....maybe not.Tell me, plant people, why do THESE pansies look like they're ready to nibble on my soul?You know the part in the movie Carrie when her mom--and I mean the original 1976 version of Carrie, so her mom as played by the inimitable Piper Laurie--tries to convince Carrie not to go to the prom, and she delivers the psychotic, chilling line, "They're all gonna laugh at you!"?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJ_0WqBQnsYeah. That's how this picture makes me feel. Stupid mean flowers.One more thing, lest I forget...Happy Mother's Day!