Lol, I examined every gingerroot in our supermarket for this purpose, garnering some strange looks but, for once, found nothing that resembled anything alive, dammit! Congrats on having better luck than I :)
I love this one! Others do have a point that the background is pretty irrelevant to the shot, perhaps a nice desert brown would have been better? And a nice warm light, with a small reflector bouncing up under that dark hat? I still think it's a great idea! :)