I’ve had a frustrating morning. I spent three hours watching the most interminable plod on Earth (aka Toledo’s Corpus Cristi procession, I’ve slagged it off before, see this post). Ok, it wasn’t any different from the year before – I knew full well what I was letting myself in for! – and I had some very good company, so it wasn’t all bad.
The most vexatious thing about it was that I took about a zillion photos and all of them turned out to be crap. And I mean ALL OF THEM. This is the best one (and only if you happen to have a thing for men in uniform):
Pathetic, right? Not that I fancy myself as possessing even a shred of photographic talent, but deleting dozens of abysmal pictures without having anything half-way presentable left to show for after an entire morning’s snapping session is a bit depressing.
But then, my day was saved by one of my new language exchange partners. She picked me up this afternoon for some practice at her house, and I took some flower pics in her garden, which cheered me up no end after this morning’s dismal defeat.
Not a flower, but a tiny pomegranate. I’d never seen them in the early stages of development before, so this was a delightful find
Pretty yellow flowers by the poolside
Lady Of The Cakes 
Flowery Fursday? You crack me up…! And yes, I agree, flowers are so much prettier than those uniforms, so well done!
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Seeing as Wordless Wednesday appears to be such a success, I thought I’d start my own! And I’m not to be stopped by a lack of alliteration… no Sir!
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And I agree, Flowery Friday has a much better ring to it, but, as you know, I’M WAY TOO IMPATIENT!!!
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Well, I alfo fink it if nife to bring a little lifp into fe whole fing.
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As it’s a feature of Peninsular Spanish, I’m already highly proficient on the lisp front 🙂
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Too funny! 😀
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Oh, you should hear me…
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Better be careful… looks like that Spanish lisp is creeping into your English!
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Fursday works if you’re in the south of England. If you’re Irish, it’d be Flowery Tursday. Ooh, you could have Turdy Tursday with all your crap photos!
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I’d never have thought of that…! Oh my,all these possible themes to exploit 🙂
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How to polish a turd by expat eye 🙂
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Polish Turd day… I can see where you’re going with this… forty million more people to piss off! Much richer picking grounds than Latvia.
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I lived there for a year before I moved here. I think I was too depressed to even think of writing about it… 🙂
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Oh my!!! We need some stories about that. Maybe a Latvia vs Poland comparison. Pleeeeeeaaasssse!!!!!!
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There’s no comparison really! That place was like a wart on the backside of the world! 🙂
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Sounds like great story potential to me! Get to it…!!!!
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Already have the next one in my mind – it’s a real shocker 🙂 But maybe in the future!!
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Am quivering in my blanked with anticipation! …but don’t think you’re getting out of it, WE WANT THE DIRT ON POLAND!!!
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(Evil chuckle) Always leave them wanting more… 😉
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Love the flowers …but OOOHHHH those men in uniform!!! I witnessed something similar yesterday, too, but in Seville. Haven’t looked at my photos yet.
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Aw, thank God they do it for somebody – my posting crap photos has not been in vain 😉
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Oh no – not in vain at all! 😉
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The flowers are pretty 😀
Parades of men in uniform bore me. I saw way too many of them as a child 😉
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The uniformed guys were buffered by effigies of virgins and other churchy paraphernalia on either side, which, I guess, doesn’t make them much more palatable, lol.
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I’m loving the recent surge in alliterative titles! Toledo’s streets never seem quite big enough for all of the events that take place in them!
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It’s certainly crazy this week… all clogged up with tourists and processions… luckily, there’s always an alternative route, as long as you know your way around.
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Oh I do love the flowers and thank goodness fursday is done and now it’s Friday.
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