Boring in Bulgaria

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, center, stands with other NATO foreign minister during a group photo at a NATO foreign ministers meeting at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Thursday April 27, 2006. Iran 's nuclear standoff with the West is expected to dominate talks Thursday between the U.S. and NATO counterparts on the eve of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to halt uranium enrichment. (Front row left to right, Bulgaria's Ivaylo Kalfin, U.S. Condoleezza Rice . Middle row left to right, France's Philippe Douste Blazy, Germany's Frank Walter Steinmeier, and back row left to right, Norway's Jonas Gahr Stoere, and Poland's Stefan Meller. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

So, yeah, I kinda jumped the gun by saying that there were lots of photos of Queen Exerceezza in Bulgaria today. True, there were plenty of shots, but they were pretty boring, even though it's hard not to be amused by what appear to be, at first glance, streamers erupting from our heroine's cabeza. There were no classic Condi moments, no matching armchairs, no dueling podiums, no amusing strolling pics which make it look like she's doing the Madison. Instead, Condi had to wander around on foot talking to boring people she already sees way too much of, like NATO head Loop-de-Loop or whatever his name is.

However! There was one of those great moments when, overcome by boredom, the Reuters snapper (in this case Stoyan Nenov) allows himself to get distracted by the scenery and it ends up pushing our poor Princess off the page:

God, I love shots like that. You catch on quick, Mr. (Ms.?) Nenov!