Shot Alive

I got started in this madness when I came across someone else's efforts using Big Huge Labs Captioner and so tried it out myself. The earlier ones here are done with that, but in the end I found it easier to caption the photos myself.

It all started with getting a digital camera:

My son, Derek, and his friends do medieval battling and this looked like a good one to try out:

In India there are often scenes that are very funny to westerners. Sometimes the westerners are very funny to the Indians at exactly the same time. While we were laughing at and pointing to the cows looking in the shop, the locals were laughing at us and pointing to us, "Haven't they ever seen a cow shopping before?" ... Well, everyone was happy:

Our cat, Ebony, decided to sleep under the Christmas tree with the kids presents. Originally I only got one tiger, but another grandchild saw it and really liked it, so I had to go back for another.

If called by a panther
Don't anther - Ogden Nash (I think)

We also have a front door mat that reads "The cat and its house keeping staff live here", which is about right. If I wasn't a vegetarian I might come back as a cat in my next life.

This last one was a bit more work. It resulted from a challenge in the digital challenge group in flickr. Each person starts with a supplied picture, in this case just the sheep, and adds some extra stuff to make a more interesting picture. Everyone then votes for the best one. So far I haven't won a single challenge ... well actually I haven't received a single vote! You aren't allowed to vote for yourself. But this is my latest entry, and I am hoping to get at least one vote: