[Looking at this photo]
Mom: Marie, if I could name this photo, I would call it, "Catherine absconds with her siblings' toys." See, she has Patrick's hummingbird and your Raggedy Ann!
Marie, age 6: If I could name this photo, I would call it, "The Gargantuan Elf." Look at her shadow!
[I invite you all to click on the thumbnail and do the same.]
I have looked at this photo closely and, for the life of me, cannot figure out how her shadow turned out to look so much like an elf. I can't see what part of Catherine makes the little curl at the top of the hat in the shadow. It is just so funny! And what a perceptive girl Marie is to have noticed it!
Posted by: Rebecca | April 24, 2006 at 01:31 AM
I did the same thing. What are we missing? This picture is priceless...
Posted by: Elizabeth Foss | April 25, 2006 at 06:04 AM
I, too, have stared at this photo trying to discern the elf making qualities of Catherine. Curiouser and curiouser!
Posted by: CiCi | April 25, 2006 at 07:25 AM
How funny! I agree that Marie is extremely perceptive, too.
Posted by: Karen E. | April 25, 2006 at 08:25 AM
Perhaps some mysteries are best left unsolved...at least that's what I always say when I can't figure something out!
Posted by: Theresa | April 26, 2006 at 12:15 AM
Perhaps this is little Catherine's way of letting us know that what our yard really needs is one of those ubiquitous "garden gnome" statues! ; )
Posted by: Alice | April 26, 2006 at 12:50 AM