Sweetness and lies

Call the carpenter! I need a new mantle for all the blog awards sending me sunshine, beauty, sweetness and lies.
Huge bouquets of thanks to Stephanie Thornton for the breath of spring and the stunning Gerber daisy, to Wen Prior for a swirl of beauty and to Laurel Garver for a spoonful of sugar.

I received the dubious bald-faced liar badge from Stephanie, Bish Denham and Catherine Denton.

My duty is to tell you six lies and one truth. And yours is to guess which one is real. This is a writer's paradise.

1) It was a scorching hot day, dust rising in small clouds under my feet. I knelt down and raised my camera. Within seconds, a full-grown African lion leaped from a perch, landing feet from me and roaring like a freight train in my face.

2) I wandered through the crowds, looking across the vast expanse of green grass that transformed the desert sands. Notebook in hand, surreptitiously mopping my brow, I approached the winner, and landed an interview with Tiger Woods.

3) After a body-cramping plane ride across the Pacific, I was ferried to a small, private island near Fiji where the sand was white as snow and the sea was clear as an aquamarine gem. I surfed perfect glassy waves for a week and never wanted to leave.

4) The medical assistant led me to a room, told me to strip and put on the paper gown and left. I waited and waited and waited. Nobody came and the sounds of doors opening and voices nearby finally ceased. Clutching my meager gown, I peeked out my door and called out, "Hello?" No one answered. They'd gone home, forgetting me.

5) I can speed read a book in a few hours. Last year, I read 245 novels.

6) A rattlesnake coiled on a boulder along a hiking trail escaped my notice until it flung itself like an arrow in my direction, barely missing me as I sprinted forward, my heart beating like a kettle drum.

7) I have a secret agent I never told you about.

Passing awards has become a challenge since so many of these go around and around. So I propose that anyone leaving a comment and making a guess as to which one of the seven is true may choose any or all of the awards above and make up your own rule about passing it on. Wishing sweetness and tall tales to everyone.