I located this one quite by accident when I installed Picasa on my main PC. You see, it catalogs ALL the pictures, not just the attractive or interesting ones, and, lo and behold, unflattering and even downright unattractive scenes can easily come back to haunt one.
The setting for this one was our back deck, and the occasion was the Trinity Lime Rock choir party during the late summer of 2005. I had been running around taking pictures of everyone else (that's become a preoccupation of mine since discovering digital photography) and suddenly, Courtney, one of the few kids present at this mostly adult gathering said "Hey, let ME take a picture of YOU!"
Well, what was I going to say, especially when the kid who posed the request had been my most faithful attender during the Summer Soccer program we had started that summer at Trinity, and had even gone and gotten me an ice pack when I pulled my hamstring trying to play an air ball like a 16 year old? And especially when the Rector was standing right there when she said it and would no doubt have backed the kid up 100%.
So, what I did say was "Okay, Courtney, you win. Go ahead, but just take one picture" and handed her the camera.
And this was the result. Thanks, Courtney! Even you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, as my grandmother used to periodically say in contexts not too much different than this.
Hmmm. That probably works on several levels, as the lady (Grandma, not Courtney nor the Rector) was such a heavy duty member of the WCTU (stands for Women's Christian Temperance Union, for those born since, say, 1970) that she actually attended an international WCTU conference in Germany in the late 1930s as a delegate for New York State. And those were the days when you pretty much had to get on a boat to get to Europe! And that IS an alcoholic beverage in my hand, yes it is.
Well, some folks who knew me back when may recognize the pose, and even the hair length. I should probably have photoshopped the hair to a different color before posting it, but then it would not have been as humiliating.
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