Smiles are one thing we need a lot more of these days. It’s easy to be serious, with all the bad news out there, but I do try to keep my eyes open for fun things. On our trip to Colorado in 2022, we stopped in Rock Springs, Wyoming for dinner. We ate at a fun Japanese restaurant that had this guy outside to announce what kind of cuisine you could find inside.

He’s a Sumo wrestler from Japan, and you can see the restaurant in the background. Hubby for scale-he is six feet tall. That guy is huge!

On our recent trip to Nashville, on one of our drives around the area, we followed this truck, and I just had to smile at the clever name they called their business.

No funny business for those truckers!

On our last day before leaving for home, we had lunch at the Tupelo Honey restaurant that Hubby loved on our last trip. I got a kick out of the picture on the wall.

The guitar as a stirrer! Remember that Nashville’s nickname is Music City, after all.

I have always been a fan of art glass, and this fellow looked mighty annoyed at those waving fronds blocking his view.

I’m not much of a raw-tomato eater, but I was very impressed by the colors and different shapes of the heirloom tomatoes at the supermarket where we were buying our Thanksgiving turkey breast roast.

The birds who visit our backyard suet feeders always generate smiles, especially when the big birds try to navigate the little cage-feeder. They are really too large for it, and it is not made with a tail-rest for the woodpeckers. Just a short time ago, our Northern Flicker came by.

And our Fierce Guard-cat is always good for a smile. When I sit at my computer, she sits at my feet, making sure no one bothers me, or interferes when she is meowing for dinner. Today is no different.

Here’s the Link to this week’s Original Post. And Tina’s too.