H is for Help

Once again coincidence is the reason why I chose Help to be my H for Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday. On Wednesday, I received an email from a snack company that my photo of a squirrel had been uploaded to their online gallery and that it is now ready for voting. They also wrote that I should invite friends to vote for my photo. Normally, I don't even bother to enter such photo contests. I am not registered at Facebook or Twitter, so everyone who has a few hundred contacts there can easily get many votes -- often enough no matter how the photo looks like. Thus a couple of photos already have nearly 100 votes after just one day.

Anyway, the topic of the photo contest was to show a photo which is genuine as in genuinely beautiful or or genuinely crazy or genuinely whatever you can come up with. I decided to upload a photo I took in Sacramento, CA a couple of years ago. The cute squirrel -- genuinely cute or echt süß in German --, seemed to pose for the camera. The little guy lived in the park in front of the California State Capitol.

If you think the squirrel is genuinely cute, please help me get a few votes, so that I don't stick with a modest one vote -- my own vote that is. You could even vote once a day until December 15. Click here to help my squirrel move up on the voting scale. You just have to click on the red button which says Stimme geben (which means vote). That's it. Then my squirrel can start its march to the top and could win me an Apple iPad or Apple iPod Nano or a packet of snack products.

A click a day makes my squirrel squeak hooray!
(And me, too.)


Edit on 11/13:

Thanks for your votes -- they have meant very much! However, I don't stand a chance against people who can rally hundreds of people who vote for them day by day. In just a few days, a couple of photos have nearly 1,000 votes. Well, it was worth a try, but next time I will definitely pass taking part in "photo" contests which are in fact popularity contests.