Photo Non-Contest #160 -- Shopping (All My Ducks In A Row)

I'm not really a big fan of going shopping.  I hate battling for parking places.  I hate malls.  I hate being pushed and shoved in crowds.  I hate lines.  I hate big box stores.
Really, the only kind of shopping I like is the sort at craft fairs or farmers' markets, where there are little booths.
Oh, and bookstores.  I love small, independent bookstores.
Hence, I don't really have many shopping photos for Written Inc's theme this week, which is "shopping."  But, oddly enough, of the dozen or so that I have, two of them involved ducks.

From a little shop in Astoria, Oregon, we get a terrible, through-the-glass shot of a Jack Sparrow rubber ducky -- because everyone needs one of those.  Right?

And then here's one from a local feed and garden shop, taken last spring when Dad wanted to see the baby animals for sale:

Ah, little fuzzy ducky butts..... Cute.

And thus endeth my duck shopping tail tale.  :)

Photo Non-Contest #159 - Vibrant

Written Inc's new theme is "vibrant."
I'm not feeling very vibrant after the first day of school; I'm feeling a bit more toward the "exhausted" end of things.  So here are a few perky pictures in case you're feeling like I am.

This is totally the wrong season, but the egg dye here was pretty vibrant, I'd say.

This is one of my dad's fruit salads.

This is from the children's garden in Red Butte Gardens in Salt Lake City.  If you look in the background, you'll see a bed frame; it's a flower bed.  ;)

And this is a coffee shop in Midway, Utah, where Max and I took a few snaps last spring.  I think the sign against the sky is vibrant.  (No, I didn't tamper with the colors in any way -- not on any of these, actually.)

Photo Non-Contest #156 -- Red

The theme at Written Inc. this week is "red."  Easy enough.

Engine 119, one of the two original engines (now restored) that met for the driving of the Golden Spike on May 10, 1869, joining the first transcontinental railroad.  Taken at Promontory Point, Utah.

The Samurai: a potentially nausea-inducing ride at Lagoon amusement park in Farmington, Utah.