The Camera Snagging Broccoli

Dad was a little discouraged the last week. A beautiful little hand camera that he enjoyed with enormous pleasure was lost.

Last remembered in the throws of the costco book area, the camera was used to snap a photo of an interesting recipe in a cook book not yet purchased for mom. He felt that maybe he had snapped the photo and the wrist support had fallen off and it had dropped among the book piles in the store.

A complete search of the house was engaged, just to be sure. But no camera was found. In the mean time accusations of planned replacements and why some one could be so casual with one's camera ensued. He was indeed planning to get a new one to replace the one that he had lost. The costco explanation seemed to make sense.

Yesterday I got a call by cell phone that the broccoli plants in the backyard had scooped up his camera and it was hanging from an errant shoot.

Apparently he dropped it off his wrist or from his pocket when he was planting some eggplant starts in the shadow of the overheated broccoli headed for seed.