For some reason, this detail of a fisherman’s net won out over other favorite closeups. It was taken with my Nikon Coolpix S33 camera shortly before it bit the dust when I mistakenly dipped the lens in sea water while trying to photograph a jellyfish. My cameras have had a shelf life of from one to two years lately, but they live a good and busy life in the interim.
https://musinwithsusan.com/2016/07/20/macro-moments-challenge-week-5/
I’ve mentioned this place where I go every year many times. Next year I’ll be there for three months. Thought you might like to have a look: at this video:
Today, instead of posting a photo of a flower, I chose to write a poem about Cee’s flower of the day. If you haven’t seen it already, go have a look but then come back here to see the poem.
“Dahliance”
Your round perfection, minutely curled.
Your ruby lips in rows unfurled.
The dew you cup in early morn
shows the day has been reborn.
Your face, uplifted, requires no word.
To talk to flowers is absurd.
Instead, I choose a focus and
thus pick you, though you still stand
erect and safe as I depart.
I’ve caught you in my camera’s heart
to be released for all to share,
delivered to them through the air.
You join a virtual bouquet
that I’ve assembled day-by-day
just to give away for free
so whole worlds can admire thee.
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Punished
There is something one can do with anger—
some sign that can be recognized
and answered—
a scab to be picked,
a mystery that leaves clues.
The only punishment
impossible to rectify
is
silence.
The intent of the prompt is to publish a photo of something that tops off an experience and makes it special. It doesn’t have to specifically be a cherry.
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These little guys were definitely the icing on the cake when they arrived to visit a few days after I celebrated my birthday in Sheridan, Wyoming. They came to visit their grandmother, one of my best and oldest friends, but because I live in Mexico and they don’t live in the town where I visit her and my sister most years, I’d never met them before. They came running in and said, “Our dad says you are his godmother. Does that mean you are our great godmother?” I said, “No, that makes me your ‘fairly’ godmother.” And it went on from there. They are adorable and smart as you can probably see from this photo. The one on the right was getting a buzz haircut from his dad when his dad decided it looked cool to leave a little ducktail in front, and I think he was right. It is adorable. At one point, the last day they were in Sheridan, we all went to the Holiday Inn for breakfast. There was a wishing pool and after the boys threw in their money, Ducktail came and reported he’d gotten his wish. He told us what it was and I said, “Well, that was my wish, too!” He looked at me quizzically and said, “Oh, did you wish that you were younger?” Ha. Think he missed the part about our wishes being the same.
This is what the icing on my birthday cake looked like:
The photo that is here rendered in frosting was of me blowing out the candles on my birthday cake at age three. jdbphoto
And here it is three days later. Yech! Glad I have aged a bit better. The cake has fewer wrinkles but at least I haven’t turned green and broken out in boils!! jdbphoto
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/cherry-on-top/
I am meeting a challenge to post a selfie..and wondering if I’ll be brave enough to post one I don’t like. Okay, off to the hunt. Brb.
Not a selfie and not taken in Seattle, but a zippy title, no? This is a shot someone took of me at my all-school reunion a week ago. Why is it that it is that the lips that get thinner with age and not the hips or arms?
Okay, now I challenge all of you to post a photo taken within the past few weeks. You can call it a selfie even if you don’t have one of those arm-extension dealies or a tripod and timed-release camera. It is a selfie if it is of yourself only, no matter who took it–taken within the past two weeks. Please link to my page via the comments so I can see that you’ve answered the challenge.
This post was done in honor of the glittering one. See her selfie here:
https://zipsrid.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/she-shone-in-glitter/
The prompt word today is “slowly.” Disclaimer: If you are offended by risque innuendos, please read no further. My Devil Muse caught me unaware this morning. Last warning. Last chance to stop.
Goes Down Slowly
When you press its end, it has a kick.
It goes down slowly but comes up quick.
Though based on beauty you’d never pick it,
Caught in the throes, some people lick it.
When it spews out liquid from its wick,
what it produces could make you sick.
Don’t wrinkle noses and utter, “Ick!”
I’ve just described my favorite Bic!
Here are two very nice people from my past with whom I became reacquainted at my all class reunion last week. I love this photo. She was actually a year ahead of him in school and they hadn’t seen each other in more that 50 years. I talked Gordon into going to the reunion and from the looks of it both he and his wife Judy had a great time. He is a gentle giant who bakes peach pies with his granddaughter and who doesn’t remember how he used to tease us shy Freshman girls when he was a mighty senior basketball star.
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Carefree in My Labors
I’m not so good at carefree, don’t know how to be gay.
When others loll out on the grass, I’m always cutting hay.
While other people spend the day on some fun and dumb thing,
something whispers in my ear I should be doing something!
When the alarm bell signals, my day’s labors start:
feeding dogs, then writing, sorting, filing, making art.
Even when at leisure, my mind is always working.
If I’m not doing something, I feel that I am shirking.
It’s one thing when you’re with someone and sharing repartee,
or watching interactions you encounter day-by-day.
It’s another to rethink all that has been done or said––
to mix them with the other things you have in your head.
If I put them all together, they make a lovely story––
sometimes love and romance and sometimes sad and gory.
And that is what I think about even in my bed.
I guess my retirement will be when I am dead.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/21/flower-of-the-day-july-22-2016-dahlia/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 