Reub's journey

15 April 2010

Friday My Town Shoot-Out: It makes me smile

The idea of the Friday My Town Shoot-Out is to post photos of your local community every Friday. This week's assignment was chosen by...me..from Corvallis, Oregon.

When we first moved here 1
2 years ago, I was struck by a number of things: the mountains, the clear streams, the bright sun in summer, the bike lanes everywhere, the greenness of plants fed by rain in winter, the sheep dotting the fields...and the llamas. That's right. They're everywhere! The US Census is taking place right now, and if there were a count of "llamas in the household" I feel sure we would rank very high.




The llama pictured here, with her snaggle-toothed smile, approached me after I took the picture in my header. We were coming home from a long run in the hills with the dogs when I asked John to stop the car. I wanted to take an odd picture of the llamas grazing around a little green motorcycle, but as soon as they saw me, the friendly beasts (alarmingly) converged on me. I took this photo and jumped back in the car. The picture just cracks me up. She's smiling. And she needs dental work.

20 comments:

  1. Cute! so brave of you to come so close to the llama.

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  2. Hi there!

    Corvallis sounds a good and peaceful place to live in!

    That's a good shot of the Llama! I didn't smile but I laughed, haha! Especially when you said she needs dental work. LOL!

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  3. Heh! I love that, love it! I might be scared of Corvallis, but I would give it a chance, with that smile, how could I not!

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  4. Ohhh I love Llamas ..we have Alpacas here ...quite similar ..but yours that one in particular is so amazing. I laughed out loud.

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  5. her tooth makes it cuter. We have llamas here too.

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  6. Poor thing has no idea she has such a funny look going. :)

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  7. Thats one of the funniest faces ever! She looks like a cartoon charactor come to life!

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  8. that is a winner!! perfect shot for this theme.

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  9. What a hoot!! I love llamas already, but snagle tooth endears me to them even more!! Do you know that llamas form a circle around expectant mama llamas and hum to them? Gotta love that!!

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  10. Hilarious photo, Kerry! I need some dental work done. Maybe my dental surgeon could squeeze this guy in too?

    Nah, why take away his personality?

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  11. too cute - and made me smile. I caught you comment with Sara Lulu and pulled 'stripes' onto our topics list. your Llama has a lesson to teach.... she is so happy with her ugliness.... we need to learn this....

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  12. That makes me smile too, I like that one tooth in front ^_^.

    FTSO~Makes me smile

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  13. This really does make me laugh out loud. The Llama is so goofy looking with his snaggle tooth that it makes him even cuter.

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  14. lamas lamas lamas! I wish I had one... They make the best yarn for knitting winter sweaters. :)

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  15. OH!!!! Kerry, so absolutely cute and funny. Adorable creature!!!!

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  16. This was a good theme Kerry. They are a few llamas in Ky. I know of a couple of farms not far from me. True one can hardly keep from smiling when looking at one of them. For sure, like weeds, they don't know they are ugly.LOL
    QMM

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  17. I think JarieLyn found the right word. Goofy! And there is nothing like Goofy for bringing forth a smile!

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  18. That header photo cracks me up. Good fun!

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  19. Giggle snort..I loooove it! What a wonderful shot!! I so loved this assignment! What fun!
    Kerry could I borrow and draw that little puppy in the doorway? So cute!! Will understand if not..but just had to ask!
    Hugs, Sarah

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