From the Guardian:
Taiz, Yemen: Two girls make their way across a rubbish dump. Photograph: Mohamed Al-Sayaghi/Reuters
We’re tra-ah-ash, you and me/We’re the litter on the breeze…
What’s So Good About This Friday, Anyway?
From the Guardian:
Duisburg, Germany: A hare rests in a field. Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP
Let’s just call this guy the Easter bunny, shall we? Happy Egg Holiday/Jesus Coming Back From The Dead (Delete as applicable), everybody!
Nature, Everybody
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
A bee collects nectar from a sunflower in a field near in Leibstadt, Switzerland. Pesticides have been found to make bees forget the scent for food. Read more on the bees’ plight. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
Spring has sprung, the grass is ris, I wonders where the boidies is. The boid is on the wing, they say, but that’s absoid, the wing is on the boid.
…I’m the only person who was raised by parents who recited that every Spring, aren’t I? The only person in the world.
And That They’re Only Changing For The Worse?
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Students protest against the troika’s plans for the Cypriot economy after the government decided to keep the country’s banks closed until Thursday. Photograph: Georgios Kefalas/EPA
“Do we want to just look on the dark side?/Do we want to wallow in the mire?/Do we want to feel the world’s against us?/Do we?”
The Sea Does What She Oughtta
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
A Canon camera owned by Lindsay Crumbley Scallan from Georgia in the US which was found on a beach in Taiwan. Scallan lost her camera while on holiday in Hawaii in 2007, it was found last month, more than 6,000 miles (9,600 km) away. Photograph: Douglas Cheng/AFP/Getty Images
I love this story, and the way that the camera looks like a fossil.
I Know A Place Where The Sun Hits The Sky
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
While a soldier of the Presidential Regiment takes part in the Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images
Really, I just like that it looks like he’s kicking the sun.
Stepping Out, Out for A Change
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
The professional peloton lead the rest of the 1000-plus riders in Stage 4 of the annual ABSA Cape Epic mountain bike race near Wellington, South Africa. Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA
Seeing that pic just puts me in mind of the Elliott Smith line “Good Morning Sun/It’s a beautiful day…”
One and One Make
As usual, from the Guardian’s Photo Blog, but today it’s a juxtaposition of images that grabbed my attention. Doesn’t the confetti from the bottom picture look like it’s fallout from the one above? I have to wonder whether that was intentional or entirely accidental…
To Me It Doesn’t Matter If Your
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
A young girl can scarcely conceal her excitement as she waits to welcome The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall during their visit to the British School, on the outskirts of Muscat, on day three of the Royal Tour of Oman. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA
Yes, I know exactly how you feel, little kid.
All in All It’s Just A
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Palestinian labourers queue to cross into Jerusalem at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank town of Bethlehem earlier this morning. Barack Obama is due to make his first official visit to Israel this week. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
I am woefully under-informed on the Israel/Palestine issue; my first response seeing this pic was along the lines of “The wall looks just like it does in the Guy Delisle book!” which is, all told, somewhat pathetic.