Okay, I’ve started getting some quiz responses, which means that I didn’t make one point clear: please hold your answers until the last day and then send all 10 answers to me directly in a single email at ftgiesemann@aol.com. If you post them on the blog, you may be giving out some hard-earned points to other players.

As an aside, I wondered how Terri from the Frozen North knew flowers, since the permafrost up in Minnesnowta doesn’t melt until July 31st, and freeze-up usually occurs around August 3rd, not giving flowers much of a season. I have heard anecdotally that there is one subspecies of flower, Flora frigidus Minneapolis, that can actually bud and bloom during the state’s 361 day winter; regrettably, it hasn’t been sighted in a decade or so because of the perpetual snowdrifts covering the state. Fortunately, there are several photos from the archives of the National Horticultural Museum and a few hardy specimens struggling to survive in a hothouse in St Paul. (This photo is actually identified as an ice flower, even though the rest of the information in this paragraph could be called apocryphal.)
Photo Quiz Part 2: Here are Photos 3 and 4 of this week’s 10-photo, 5 part quiz. Don’t forget that a few descriptive words (whether or not they are correctly related to the photo in question) will probably help in this contest. Imagination could well be the tie-breaker!
Photo # 3: Who is this, where did he live, and why is he famous?
Photo # 4: Where is this location, and what are these rock formations called?


I will close with a brief recounting of my recent discussion with a cute, young, buxom nurse at the dentist’s office. “Sir, you have to take these antibiotics before your procedure. Here is the prescription.” “Thanks, Buffy, let me make sure I can understand the directions… let’s see, take four pills before sex? Is that right? Ha-ha… snort…” Lovely nurse Buffy instantly mutated into Nurse Diesel from “High Anxiety”, gave me a withering look and said, “Sir, Sx is an abbreviation for surgery, not sex.” “Oh. Sorry… I’ll just see myself out…” (I related this episode to My Lovely Bride, and strangely enough, not only didn’t she laugh, but she threw a shoe at me. Women… I will never understand them.)
2 Comments
Jennifer
Sorry for putting my answers on the blog, Ty..
The flowers that look like pansies could be part of the Pansie family. The leaves look slightly different then a regular Pansie.
Ty and Suzanne Giesemann
Jennifer,
No problem… My Bad, as they say, since I forgot to add the note about saving your answers until the end of the quiz. Great to hear from you!
Ty