A faint scent of desperation

Yeeeeeaahhhh. No prizes for guessing who was lacking in the time and care factor department.

Look on the bright side. I spared you the sight of something green, fluffy and rabid from my fridge (which may well have been pineapple pieces in a previous incarnation).

Alternatively, sitting on the steps of the old post office at lunch (because one of the tenancies in my office building is being painted and everyone is stoned out of their minds from the fumes- it's sad when that's the only way to actually score a lunch break) I took one streetscape photo, at precisely the same moment an ibis decided to regurgitate something it had eaten. (And then it ate it again).

Don't think I didn't seriously contemplate uploading the ibis shot anyway, because I did.

So given the available options that I could have presented you with... some boring roses really aren't that bad after all.