Sunday, December 22, 2019

Sunday Five - Curious Things Around You


Sit where you are, be comfortable, look around and answer five simple questions. 

1: What is the nearest living thing to where you are sitting? 
2: What is under your toes? 
3: What is the nearest photograph of? 
4: How many clocks can you see from where you are sitting? 
5: What item around you, have you possessed for the longest? 

My answers:
1: What is the nearest living thing to where you are sitting? The tree outside my bedroom window, maybe 10 feet away. 
2: What is under your toes? A jute rug, that I keep under my desk chair. 
3: What is the nearest photograph of? It is a black and white photo of a cat wandering among the studios at the Maitland Art Center in Florida.  Part of my last black and white series. 
4: How many clocks can you see from where you are sitting? four. including the one on my computer.  
5: What item around you, have you possessed for the longest? An earthenware mug, I bought while visiting my aunt and uncle at the lake, when I was about 10 years old, it is filled with pens, scissors, letter openers and such. 

Please share your answers in the comments. 

13 comments:

  1. 1: my gigi cat, asleep in her bed?
    2: carpet
    3: a pix of RTG and I at our first public function (my office holiday party)
    4: 2 - one on the mantel and one on the computer screen
    5: boo bear, my teddy for sleeptime; he's alomst 30

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  2. 1. Nearest living thing would be one of my neighbours in the next suite.
    2. Woolly lining of my slippers.
    3. A photo of My Rare One and me taken in Maui last year.
    4. Two -- the digital clock on my computer screen, and my watch.
    5. The oldest thing within my immediate vicinity is a statue I bought my Mom for some occasion or another when I was a teenager. So it would be around 45 years old now. No, wait -- an antique tortiere is even closer -- my parents gave it to me for my birthday 37 years ago but the lamp and shade themselves probably date from (I'm guessing) the 1920s or 1930s?

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  3. I’m in a cafe, so my answers are skewed...
    1: What is the nearest living thing to where you are sitting? A family of four about 10 feet away
    2: What is under your toes? The wood floor of the terrace, with my shoes and socks separating us
    3: What is the nearest photograph of? My profile photo next to this comment.
    4: How many clocks can you see from where you are sitting? One, at the top of my iPad screen
    5: What item around you, have you possessed for the longest? My Levis. 7 years.

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  4. 1...a man
    2....nothing...laying prostrate.
    3...my grandfather
    4...5 clocks. What can i say...im l like Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland

    5...a picture of Madonna dressed in Marie Antoinette when she did vogue...by Herb Rifts.

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    1. Mads, there's something kind of disturbing about your first three answers being together. Maybe the grandfather part :)

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    2. Too bad I didn't ask what you are wearing?

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    3. Oh dear Deedles....I see your point now upon further inspection.

      And dear Travel...at the time then it was briefs!

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  5. 1. Dust mites.
    2. Flip flops.
    3. A small picture of me at about a year old. Balder Half keeps it on his desk. Who knew big afros existed in 1957?
    4. Two
    5. See #3 62 years. I count the nineteen years living with the parentals.

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    1. Big hair has always been in style, if you have it, flaunt it.

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  6. 1: What is the nearest living thing to where you are sitting? my niblings
    2: What is under your toes? tile
    3: What is the nearest photograph of? a dragon
    4: How many clocks can you see from where you are sitting? none
    5: What item around you, have you possessed for the longest? my brother

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