I'm always thrilled to see blue emanating from deep inside a snow pile - it's a little tough to capture in photos at times, so I've been trying for a while to get these examples.
All the other colors in the light spectrum have been absorbed by the snow, leaving only the blues available for us to see.
I'm just sharing some very nit-picky observations today: hiding or underreporting details to make something more appealing to consumers. It's disappointing and misleading.
My case in point is claiming a bread recipe has only 3 ingredients, as in "3 Ingredient Artisan Bread" - only to find there are actually 4 ingredients, but the water is not considered an ingredient! Here I was thinking I could find a quicker, or cheaper, or more efficient way of making bread than my usual one, only to find out that it's identical to the one I use except that it 'pretends' that water is not an ingredient.
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| My Jalapeno Cheddar version of the 4 ingredient bread! |
I was 'caught' by another one that read like this:
Ingredients For Three Ingredient Cake
1 pkg cake mix, any flavor
1 can any flavor pie filling
3 eggs
Wait! Since when is a cake mix an ingredient? Never, in my experience. I understand there is a thing known as a 'Dump' cake, which tells me a lot, but not mentioning this made me think it was worth looking at - I guess that is the point! I fell for it - if it sounds or seems to be too good to be true, it is, so don't bother.
No, these petty observations didn't ruin my day, but I was irked at how misleading they were. And this is only because it was presented in a topic with which I am very familiar. How many other headlines and bylines lead us astray or misinform when it's a subject with which we are unfamiliar or less hands-on?
Did we get our idea of decorating holiday trees indoors from nature's example?
And I was even more thrilled when a deer made its presence known to me as I walked alone in the woods on this day - a wonderful experience.
