Imagination is a Gift – Caption Game 1

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us uses it differently. ― Brian Jacques

It’s time to have a book giveaway game on my blog. I’ve been promising that for a few weeks and finally here we are. No mystery picture game yet. I’ll save that one for when my new book, When the Meadow Blooms, comes out in May. By then I hope to have my work in progress finished or nearly so.

But “What’s the Caption?” games are fun too. A person needs to exercise their imagination.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ~Duane Michals

Of course, you can see the picture up top, but what you don’t see is the what next. That’s what you can imagine. Or what the kids in the picture are thinking. That’s another thing we can imagine.  Children use their imaginations every day when they play. A neighbor kid came over to talk to me today when I went out to get the mail. He had found a broken archery bow and had used his imagination to make it into a weapon for whatever game he and his sister were playing.

Kids have no trouble manufacturing their own toys. My husband loves to tell how he made roads in the dirt and used an old cocoa can for his car or truck. When I was a kid, my sister and I found a large rock that we imagined resembled a couch. That became our play place. We also found all sorts of weeds, seeds and more to use for food when we made mud pies. Do kids even make mudpies anymore?

We also had rollerskates and no sidewalks. But we did have a concrete porch that we skated circles and circles on, imagining we were traveling to the most exciting places.

For a kid, the whole world is out there for them to imagine, especially when they get away from the electronic entertainments. I suppose the electronic games open up a different kind of world  that can also exercise their imaginations.  But I have to say I’m glad I did most of my imagining outdoors when I was a child. That is, except when I was devouring books that gave my imagination a workout in another way.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. ― Caroline Gordon

When my  grandkids were younger, they enjoyed being outdoors to explore the fields and woods when they came to visit. They would always bring along their electronic games but those games generally stayed in their suitcases. They were ready for old fashioned games when they visited an old fashioned grandma.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We’ll play the caption game for a couple of weeks. So leave your best idea for a caption in the comments or leave any kind of comment if you can’t come up with a caption, and I’ll throw your name in my giveaway hat. I’ll pick three winners. Each time you leave a caption for a newly posted photo, you get an additional entry. You must be at least 18 years old to enter. The prizes will be books. No big surprise there! But the winners will get their choice of an autographed copy of one of my books.

I think that’s everything about the giveaway. So, let’s get started. I can’t wait to hear your caption ideas.

What caption can you imagine for the picture of a couple of kids in an old army jeep?