Label a Picture

Next exercise! One I got directly from the book Poemcrazy. But I built on it too.
This isn't really a poem exercise. More like an exercise to get your imagination flowing. To make unusual and interesting connections.
Start with a picture. Something unusual and interesting. Something that could potentially say a lot, even if you don't know what.

This is a picture I took two days ago when Dad decided that he had to visit Sutter's Mill, where gold was discovered. The place where the Gold Rush was sparked.

I'm not sure if you can tell, but those are shoes hanging on each of the fence posts.

You can stage your own picture. The one I was originally planning to do is a scene from a story I'm planning. A single cut rose laying on the stairs.
Maybe something like a rusty key hanging on a hook. A dilapidated barn. A broken vase. A half-painted sculpture. you could think of any number of scenes.
Now, set up your scene and photograph it. Or draw it. Or find a picture of your scene on the internet, if you're really lazy.

And now for the second part of the exercise.
Write a list of words.
Words that have weight.
I'll give some examples. Some are stolen from a list in the book.

Wall
Mourn
Spring
Pretend
Skin
Begin
Reveal
Begin
Window
Door
Mask
Ask
Betray
Forgive

Any more suggestions of words I can add to this list?
Make your list as long as you want. Then find some way to pick a word randomly. Close your eyes and point to a word. Write them all down on little scraps of paper and choose one randomly. Give each one a number and use a random number generator. Whatever method appeals to you.
Now, all you have to do is label that picture with your word.

ASK

Here's the fun part. Tell us the story about why the picture is labeled that way. Maybe there's several possible stories.

Let's see. For mine, this is the first one that popped into my head.
If anyone asks this guy about his fence, he takes one of their shoes and adds it to his collection.

Expand it. Make it as long as you want. Maybe there's a whole story there.

Fact of the Day: Giant anteaters only spend three minutes at each termite mound. Two of those minutes are spent cracking the mound open. This is because there's only about three minutes before the "warrior" termites can get through the anteater's thick coat and start biting him.