Leprechaun, Behind the deli counter in an Albuquerque Whole Foods, March 17, 2010, photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
There once was a smiling leprechaun
with a golden beard and skin the color of fake lawn.
She worked at Whole Foods in a place called “The Deli”
and when laughed, she jiggled her belly.
She took our order then got her Green on.
HAPPY St. Patty’s Day!
Happy St Patty’s day. Love the picture.
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That leprauchan is enough to scare me sober. Well, for the day. Or maybe at least to swear off green beer …
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Great photo! Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
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Back at ya! Doesn’t she (the leprechaun) look slightly like Elton John if he were a leprechaun? 8)
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I’m a terrible limerick writer, btw, so if anyone wants to write one that has more umph, please do so!! 8)
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There was a leprechaun at Whole Foods
Who was green, happy, and not even slightly rude!
She worked in the deli
Where the cheese was smelly
And you thought leprechauns always were dudes!
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ybonesy,
Really?
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Good one, MM!
Gunnar, really (I think. Depends on what part you meant.).
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oooh…my kinda gal. Wonder what she’s doing in October?
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Great shot, really cute – thanks for being so handy with the camera. Today I heard about a new thing, barcodes that every business will have, you take a picture with your camera phone and it gives you a website with all the details immediately, they call them “physical hyperlinks”….Do you know there are 4.6 billion cell phones out there, more than just about anything else in the world (cars, land lines, PCs etc.) What a handy little extension of self this has become… anyway, I am sure you used your Canon, but it is amazing how we can capture the world around us physically hyperlinking all over the place!
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Ha ha, Heather. Recruiting for the Haunted Lucky Charm cereal set? 8)
‘lil, I hadn’t heard about the “physical hyperlinks,” although it reminds me how everything is getting that geo-connection, such as Twitter, where you can link to where you are geographically. QM might enjoy that. She’s done some of that already with the photos she’s tweeted on from the road.
And 4.6 billion cell phones. No, but whew, what a market, eh? No wonder that’s been the wave these past couple of years (in terms of product development for apps, etc.).
Oh, and I did in this case use my Canon. I’m back to trying to carry it with me wherever I go.
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actually I’m doing a haunted fashion show this year…but Haunted Lucky Charms…well that’s rather brilliant yb…I can just see the scary yellow moons and morbid pink stars chasing the regular boring cereal.
I currently have a naked male mannequin (donated last week) in my garage. When I pulled up into the driveway, I thought my husband was in there doing the laundry naked. I now have the poor thing facing the street just to scare the dog walkers. 😉
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A haunted fashion show–what a GREAT idea! Those mannequins can be so scary, even without any dressing them up. I hate, btw, that Old Navy commercial that has all the mannequins talking to one another. Have you seen it? Perhaps it was an inspiration??
Heather, you are such a goofball, thinking your husband was doing the laundry naked. Now that would have been a cool surprise, eh? 8)
BTW, for the fashion show, will you also employ live fashion models? There are some spooky doozies in the fashion magazines.
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Yes, yb…live as well. I have some lovely nieces who I hope to wrangle into runway walking. Actually the elder is quite a ham…so now that I think about it…I hope I can get her OFF the ramp. I was thinking about using my grey men as photographers, kneeling along the ramp…but covering their heads with big black boxes that look like actual cameras. Possibly strobes flashing on timers. It’s still in my head. You are so creative. Toss me a few ideas. If I can build it…they will come.
As far as my males mannequin, I notice when I pulled up into the driveway today, he was holding a hat over his groin. Makes him look like a total perv now! I just got new neighbors in the UGH McMansion next door. I hope they have strong constitutes.
😉
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So you finally scared away your McMansion neighbors? Was it the Alien Nation that did it?? 8)
Ooh, love the camera-boxes-for-heads idea. I think you should set up a group of scary mannequins and then have a recording playing in the background where they’re talking to one another about the secret things they do when the lights are out and no one is watching. It would be as if the audience could hear the mannequins’ thoughts. Another idea is to have a case with scary dolls in it, and have that area be the “mannequin in training” section or baby mannequins.
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ROTFL I just read Liz this series of mannequin comments and we were cracking up.
Heather, is the naked mannequin version of your husband doing laundry naked kind of the male version of Kathy Bates dressing up in Saran Wrap in Fried Green Tomatoes? I love the idea of the mannequin fashion show with the camera box heads for the photographers. Wow, creative. Mannequins out of context can be so creepy!
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yb, the guy that owned McMansion built it’s giantness to see Catalina Island…”26 miles…across the sea…Santa Catalina is the place for me”… (I need musical notes here) but the IDIOT never moved in. Then he rented all 6 rooms with all 6 bathrooms to 6 different people with what seemed like 12 cars of dubious quality. It didn’t go over well, although my hub and I thought they were all very nice young adults. My neighbors had a COW. A big beefy one. A very nice Family will move in shortly. I hope they like Halloween or they vacation late October. 😉
yb, QM and Liz…I’ll tell you gals…that nude male mannequin has become the talk of the street with all the kids. 2 teenage dog walkers want photos with him. I can just see it…I’m gonna end up with some kid’s Mom knocking on the door to give me the stink-eye. I told my husband to put some swim trunks on him (or another hat) but he thinks it’s hilarious to hear the kids snickering in the morning on the way to school. It’s not like the poor plastic man has anything to hide but a bump…and he appears to be very carefree and happy…even though there is that missing finger. (I’m trying not to laugh while I write this). I contacted someone selling off Craigs list from a place called “Wicked Den” who’s also selling cheap mannequins. I can just imagine what I’m getting myself into… 😉
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If your new neighbors have kids of *any* age, you will be their favorite neighbor of all time. Those kids will grow into old people one day and all their lives tell stories about that wonderfully bizarre neighbor who every year transformed her home into the wildest and best haunted houses, and remember the creepy Mannequin Motel of 2010?? You might even show up in someone’s memoir! 8)
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You’re very kind yb. All I ever set out to do was to find that one kid, the really shy one, with a less than perfect home life. The one that needs just a bit of magic…even for the small moment I can provide it. I was that kid once.
It’s quite touching to hear the teens talk about passed years and know, with the help of others, I was able to make a childhood memory. That’s a powerful thing for someone that never had any kids of her own. Now I have a couple thousand and I only have to clean up after them once a year!
I have learned the new neighbors have 2 small children. Batten down the hatches!
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