Follow Friday – Poppy Dress

Today’s post features photos of a younger Isobel in our garden. Have a great weekend!

What is a Follow Friday post? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme. Learn more about it in my FAQ. See my nomination for a Shorty Award for Follow Friday here. You can read more Follow Friday goodness here. Would you like to be a guest photographer for Follow Friday? Email me!

markleggett One of my co-workers looks sad. Good.

robfee Beer before liquor, never been sicker. Liquor before xanex, how did we end up in Des Moines?

Cheeseboy22 Apparently my 6yo old son went to school with a Spiderman costume under his clothes. The students of McKinley Elementary were safe today.

michaeljnelson I trust that M. Night Shyamalan, Moon Unit Zappa and Cuba Gooding Jr. will have a child together named Good Night Moon Shyamalan.

kerihw *from deep inside a black hole, pulses of energy are detected by the dish array. they are transmitting a message* DID U GET MY TXT LUV MUM X

biorhythmist Try my new diet where you eat whatever you want, then hold a baby goat.

louisvirtel Every time something bad happens to Avril Lavigne, Kristen Stewart is one step closer to an Oscar-winning biopic role.

kerihw for any americans confused about the great british bake off, this is like our monster trucks

dubouchet I am probably not a cactus! (my therapist told me to write some phrases that I can say to myself to reinforce self-esteem)

morninggloria my signature dance move is saying “i hate dancing!” while I do the Sarcastic Robot

rstevens I need more coffee ports in order to distribute it more evenly throughout the body

CohenDS As a child, he was bitten by a radioactive man. Then… slowly… He turned into a man. He is… MANMAN

cmdeb In a debate between McCain and Rand, I choose herpes.

UncleDynamite If you’ve never seen them, the law says you have to refer to them as alleged nipples.

Molly_Kats When I don’t know what’s going I just start screaming.

mylittlebecky One favorite thing about babies is when they look politely impressed with their own farts.

amandaha 5 second rule: eat the chocolate chip you drop fast or else you will think it is a little poop.

nedwards *staring down at the corpse of Frankenstein’s monster* “Perhaps man is the real monster” *voice from back of peasant mob* “not all men!”

UncleDynamite You have no idea how grateful dogs are that their spacecraft crash-landed on a planet populated almost entirely by dog poop baggers.

jennyvsjenny also whoever named it enterovirus d68 instead of d69 really missed an opportunity there

donni The plural of footloose is feetleese

BeTheBoy Did you ever know that you’re my hero? P.S. – I was being sarcastic.

LisaMcIntire “ugh skip the story and get to the money shot” — me reading food blogs

Molly_Kats Does my mom count as a stalker

josephesque Oh, ignore Chuck. He’s just going through his terrible 36s.

AstroKatie Sometimes when everything is terrible I think at least I’m not a Boltzmann brain popping into existence in the primordial quark-gluon plasma

Teowulf What do we want? TIME TRAVEL When do we want it? FIVE YEARS AGO!

Cheeseboy22 They had me at the “Honey Bunches of” but lost me at the “oats.”

madball911 If I had to work as hard as my AC the last few weeks, I’d be dead.

wordlust My parents made me into an abusive monster, and I turned out fine.

Smug_Lemur “At least you have each other,” I say to the two halves of an Oreo before devouring them, bitterly.

robdelaney Thank god my toenails aren’t as long as they were in my dream last night! But my wife really is on Catalina Island with my karate teacher

LIFECOACHERS Be a beacon of positivity in the workplace so your co-workers can have someone on which to focus all their hatred.

Smug_Lemur Him: What is this Twitter thing all about? Me: Kinda like this *types BOOBS on a calculator app*

trumpetcake I am a master of “Human Origami.” I work the streets. I get the crowd hyped. “M’am, watch as I fold your baby into a swan.”

han_nahj Today’s outfit choice is 100% influenced by how similar it is to sweatpants.

isplotchy Based on my recent experience, the Greek philosopher Socrates is not only alive, but also actively searching for his name on Twitter.

FlyoverJoel You don’t have to go out there and be a role model today, but let’s try not being a life lesson.

danforthfrance I’ve been feeding my cat food that promises “intense beauty” and YOU SHOULD SEE THIS BITCH TONIGHT HACHI MACHI

UncleDynamite “Paleo” is a prefix meaning “you’ve run out of meaningful things to say or do.”

owlparliament true love is mostly about finding someone to stay up late with you while you worry about money

jeb You know what they say sunlight is the best disinfectant. Laughter is the best medicine. Welcome to Outside Joke Hospital. You will die here

UncleDynamite At the pet store. By what criterion does one choose a parrot? Thigh gap?

vforrestal The level of discourse I sometimes try to achieve with my cats has grown concerning, even to me.

shariv67 My home security system is just 15 motion-activated Big Mouth Billy Basses.

StatsBritain The top 4 causes of depression in Britain: 1. No tea 2. Steven Moffat 3. Lack of sunlight 4. “3 episodes”

crylenol it’s just so crazy to think that kids born in 14 will be turning 2000 this year

NicestHippo Your job sends money to your bank and within 10 seconds it’s all gone because of bills. Direct deposit is essentially money Snapchat.

MommyMG Just realized I mistyped my birth year as 1082. It was a good year for the Holy Roman Empire and side ponytails were wayyy in style.

andrewmorrisey Another day involving pants, I see.

johnmoe 6yo dropped some butter. We reminded her of the old saying, “Drop some butter, pick it up, tomorrow you might see a duck.” She’s excited.

Matt_Dwyer All meetings should end with, “And when we face death we will think of none of this.”

biorhythmist Oof. I had too many dinners last night.

PopCulLibrn Part of my dream last night featured cats making up much of the first row of The Price is Right.

JerryThomas Sorry I was texting during your trust fall.

bossy_bootz I feel most alive when I’m hungry and grocery shopping

whitneyarner Shout out to going to bed!

donni Why do anything ever when you could just lay down

theleanover What’s the over/under on me knowing what over/under means?

norcross poopin

hellolanemoore being on twitter late at night is like hanging out at the dorm common space while everyone’s roommate is getting laid

man_spach (on a date) Ok don’t let her know you’re really Mr. Potato Head.

Date: Didn’t you have a mustache?

Me: Um… *pulls mustache out of butt*

dubouchet It took 30 years for me to be OK with liking the stuff I liked when I was 13.

markleggett I use a period tracker app for poop. Why should women have all the fun?

markleggett That which does not kill your personal brand makes it stronger.

TheDairylandDon (phone ring) Hi. It’s your blind date. Just got here. I’d come to the door, but your first image of me should be with my rims still spinnin.

shinyinfo Wolverine must be really good at opening up those bags of milk Canadians like to use.

markleggett Who’s your favourite professional sports monster?

SpaghettiJesus Have you ever gone to Popeyes, come home, gotten stoned, forgotten about the Popeyes, smelled it, thought you were hallucinating & found it?

ixSEANxi GOTHAM CLIFFHANGER: will Selina survive stealing from the mob of course cause she has to later become Catwoman why did we make this show.

Lilacmess I know that my cats really appreciate when I sing “Dance Magic Dance” to them.

wrobertswriter When you get angry, count to 10. Punch at 5. They won’t be expecting that.

weinerdog4life What’s the normal amount of hair to mail someone? I feel like this is a lot of hair I’m mailing to someone

LetoileSan I deleted the U2 album last night and woke up to a physical copy under my pillow.

cloudypianos You know you’re pretty special when my butt texts you ten times in a row.

GoodMistakes56 Whoever said the worst feeling is a broken heart has obviously never had the runs in the middle of a traffic jam.

MassageByTed Like 1970s dads hiding stacks of Playboys in the toolshed, I have a secret stash of Cocoa Puffs that the children must never find.

Sarcasticsapien Counselor: Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Me: I assume I’ll still use a mirror. *10 years later* I do. I do still use a mirror.

UncleDynamite Whenever Margaret Thatcher lost her place in a prepared speech, she’d placate audiences by saying, “Recalculating…recalculating…”

MagpieLibrarian If your child is screaming and crying, definitely keep them in the library. It’s how they tell you that they’re having a great time.

BillCorbett There are no free lunches? Bah! There’s plenty of ‘em if you like acorns and trash.

Yelix Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is basically Doctor Who for cool people who aren’t dorks

UncleDynamite Over time I have come to completely respect the potato-ness of Sen. John McCain.

mitdasein I bet if you went back in time and tried to tell people about Obama, they’d be like “No way! A Japanese president?”

JBreverseme holy crap u guys thanksgiving is almost here followed by christmas, new year’s valentine’s day debt menopause death

SolomonJake “What’s the greatest song of all time?” MY LIPS: *some bullshit* MY HEART (in a whisper): “Africa. God help me, it’s Africa by Toto.”

pizzasauceboss My version of “trust falls” is sitting on a public toilet seat without putting down tp.

UncleDynamite At Last Minute, Connery Stumps For Something Called ‘Shcottish Independensh’

Atrios scotland referendum options should have been “Fuckety Bye” and “No”

shinyinfo Garfield and Gonzo shaped me as a person. A lazy weird person.

aspaul I can see the #DressNormal campaign being one of those ideas that Don Draper pitched while being completely trashed.

donni Apathy is on the rise but nobody cares

Toaster_Pastry Please forward that useless e-mail to my Useless E-Mail Account.

slackmistress People are impressed with those who put their money where their mouth is but money is like 98% poop so who’s impressed now?!

LaurelKS Things that don’t exist in horror universes:

WD 40

Batteries

Common sense

louisvirtel I’m not saying Bono thinks he’s Jesus, but he had us immaculately conceive his album.

bombsfall I thought “Steal like an artist” meant pirating the Adobe suite.

What is a Follow Friday post? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme. Learn more about it in my FAQ. See my nomination for a Shorty Award for Follow Friday here. You can read more Follow Friday goodness here. Would you like to be a guest photographer for Follow Friday? Email me!