in brambles and heart: otis redding made me do it

9/27/2010

otis redding made me do it

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: What a HEARTy tomatoe:) Tell me, what does Otis have to do with this??; 28.9.10
shilo said...: i actually didn't take the photo knowing it looked like a heart so once i downloaded it off my camera i said "oh how cheesy!" but listening to otis makes me all lovey dovey so i felt like finally sharing it in all of it's cheese ball glory! the "glory of love"!!!!!; 28.9.10
Anonymous said...: What a shame it would be to eat this beautiful tomato; 29.9.10
shilo said...: why all the anonymity? from now on you can't be secret...; 29.9.10

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