For this week’s challenge, show us something that stands out from the everyday.
Could it be mid-August already? For those of us who live in less-warm climes, summer’s long, sunny days are a prized commodity, something to look forward to all year long. But even during this all-too-short season, some things are more prized than others.

Exhibit A: sour cherries. They’re tart and satisfying and beautiful in ways other fruit can barely come close to. They’re also almost impossible to find, at least where I live: their season lasts about seven minutes, and fewer and fewer people appreciate them these days, so growers keep replacing the trees with other, more user-friendly (read: giant and sweet) varieties. Sour-cherry devotees have become a loosely-organized seasonal cult, haunting farmers’ markets, searching for their phantom favorites with desperate looks.
But then you find them at that one fruit stand, and for a couple of weeks, as supplies last, you’re content. You make compotes and cakes. You prepare yourself for another year of waiting.
For this week’s challenge, share a photo of something rare: a family heirloom. A cloudy day in a normally sunny desert. A sad frown on a cheerful kid’s face. Or anything else you think of as scarce and singular. I can’t wait to see what “rare” means to you!
hey, funny idea Ben: https://solaner.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/wpc-rare/
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From a tattoo after-party:
https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/the-titanic-afterparty/
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Raring to post for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare
in two rare minutes at:
https://marichulambino.com/
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Organic
Vegetable Hummingbird:
Very rare
(almost impossible to find)
at:
https://marichulambino.com/2016/08/20/postaday-wordpressdotcom-wordpress-weekly-photography-challenge/
Happy rare-finding this weekend!
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Nice theme. So, the title is not rare, but I find the art a bit rare. Have a nice weekend! http://wp.me/p3gqMf-yB
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Summer? That in itself was a rare occurrence this year! If we had ten real summer’s days it would have been plenty! And drat… the Met folk are predicting that autumn is rushing in sooner! 😉
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I feel like that about the first strawberries and raspberries after a long winter. Although they don’t stay rare, those first beauties are SO good.
janet
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This was actually a rare sight and I was lucky to experience it with my own eyes! http://stenoodie.com/2016/08/19/weekly-photo-challenge-rare/
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got one 😉
https://msdiplomacy.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/rare-lost-places/
Happy weekend everyone.
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Oh my! My family grew up picking sour cherries. My mom, my sister and I love making cherry pie. Every year the entire family would go to the orchard and pick. Pounds and pounds and pounds. Then we’d sit around the kitchen table pitting them. We froze them. I continue the tradition, though my entire family has moved to the south where you can’t get these. Now it’s my responsibility to go to the orchard and pick. Less pounds, but still a lot. And I pit alone. It’s the pits. (sorry!) I agree, these are special and rare and wonderful. And when the light shines through the ripe ones on the tree it’s magical. Thanks for bringing back fun memories that I sometimes forget when I’m slogging through the process of getting them ready to freeze.
Now I’ll go find something else that is ‘rare’ for the challenge.
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It’s always nice to know I’m not a one-person sour-cherry cult! 🙂
I actually came to love them as an adult, through my wife, who grew up in a country where they’re very popular.
Looking forward to see your photo!
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Monarch butterflies are predicted to become extinct in a matter of 20 years. I found a little Prince – a caterpillar – on the Fourth of July.
https://scillagrace.com/2016/08/19/weekly-photo-challenge-precious-few/
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http://wp.me/p2ij8U-3IW
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On a plantation trail:
https://deetoursbydeepali.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/on-the-plantation-trail-woshully-cottabetta/
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Good prompt! https://castelsarrasin.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/rare-bird-weekly-photo-challenge/
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Oh the rare treat of cherries yum!!
Here is is my look at the moon which we don’t get to see in the summer go here to see why 😉
https://piecesofstarlight.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/wpc-challenge-rare-moon-sighting/
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There’s only fifty of these in the world:
https://mostlymonochrome.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/5867/
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Love this time of year with the good produce! My rare family heirloom is my great grandfather’s pocket watch which I found out it was from 1918. Make sure you follow my blog
chefstegonzcom.wordpress.com
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might be some ‘rare’ chocolate bar.. as I guess 🙂 funny idea this week..
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Rare – Creative Resume Bar {C+V} for everyone with Leaving Certificate 2016: https://byswav.com/2016/08/19/creative-resume-cv-for-everyone-with-leaving-certificate-2016/ ~ Enjoy your weekend folks! Swav
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Had to do a funny out too
https://piecesofstarlight.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/wpc-ii-rare-tomatoes/
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I grew up in Michigan, and every Fourth of July the whole family would spend the day picking buckets full of sour cherries to freeze. Thanks for stirring a happy memory!
Here is my response to the challenge: https://naomibaltuck.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/jungle-born/
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This is a great topic Ben! Here’s my entry:
https://damiology.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/wpc-rare/
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Sour cherries? Sorry Ben… Ewwww…! Gimme them big sweet ones please!!!
https://graphicrealestate.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/rare/
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Sour cherries and sour plums are part of the summer diet here in Tbilisi, Georgia. The cherries were giving way to watermelons in the markets, when I was searching for inspiration for the earlier photo challenge “cherry on the top”.
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I don’t think I’ve had sour cherries. Feel like I’ve missed out, Ben 😦
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As I mentioned, they are rare… 😉
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🙂
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My favorite jam on breakfast toast is sour cherry jam mmm!
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My examples of RARE:
https://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/something-that-stands-out-from-the-everyday/
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A set of photos of way of living that is rare these days. http://creativejunkie.net/2016/02/02/when-skies-are-gray/
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Those sour cherries look very tasty, but I have never tasted one. Rare indeed!
Here’s my photo. I found the object in a church in a French village: https://figmentsofadutchess.com/2016/08/19/photo-challenge-rare/
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I loved this topic! Here’s my post: http://wp.me/p10iHd-RA 🙂
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Of course it had to be something from New Zealand!
http://wp.me/p1hCI2-6PH
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A clear day at the Golden Gate Bridge: https://arrestingimagery.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/weekly-photo-challenge-rare/
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