Monthly Archives: July 2016

Depth

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Depth

Deep is neither
party conversation
nor the subject of Valentines.
It seeps into the
crevices
under
fingernails
and
the
caverns
of
ears.

Internal
and
curvaceous,
it is hard to get
right to the point of.
Deep does not put down roots––it is roots.
Betrayal, breaking glass
and tunnels leading to
dark wombs that bear us anew
to rock us harshly
and swaddle us in pain.
Deep, I am
sometimes deep,
at other times
swift cold water
with surface
swirlings
or mist
rising
through
sunlight
clarified
by
deep
shadows.

 

 

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/depth/

Tracks and Trains

(Click to enlarge.)

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/19/cees-fun-foto-challenge-tracks-trains-rail-tracks-etc/

A Plethora of Petunias: Flower of the Day, July 20, 2016

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https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/19/flower-of-the-day-july-20-2016-lotus/

A Photo a Week Challenge: Out in the Country

There’s a lot of land out west, but. . .


(click on photos to view larger)

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without cowboys, it ain’t country!!!

 

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High Cholesterol


High Cholesterol

Bake the pies and roast the beast.
Call your friends from west and east.
They’ll enjoy the food, at least,
as from sparse greens my meal is pieced.
For I fear my life’s long feast
has, by necessity, now ceased!

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/feast/

Sunlit Petunias: Flower of the Day, July 19, 2016

 

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https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/18/flower-of-the-day-july-19-2016-rose/

Murdo Snaps

Since my malfunctioning camera coincided with my short photographic attention span due to an overactive urge to chat during my recent trip home to the town I grew up in in South Dakota, you might want to see another blogger’s version of the All-School Reunion and 100th anniversary of the county I grew up in.  Her blog, entitled “Murdo Girl” is all about growing up in our tiny town that is shrinking year by year.  In the 50 years since I graduated, the high school has shrunk from 100 students to 49, even though it has gone from being a town school to  a county-wide school.

Go here: https://kipandmary.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/murdo-girl-the-reunion-part-1/
to read Mary’s account of the festivities.  I might add that it is meant to be tongue-in-cheek.  I hope!!!

Frail

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Frail

She cannot change a tire or heft a cotton bale,
help us move the sofa or lift the water pail––
not because she’s lazy or because she is too frail,
but simply because if she did, she might break a nail!!

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/frail/

 

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For more flowers, go here: https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/17/flower-of-the-day-july-17-2016-daylily-2/

Sunday Trees, 244

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Which is more impressive–the tree or the Bighorn Mountains behind it?  Luckily, we don’t have to choose as they come as a package deal.  Photo taken in Sheridan, Wyoming.

 

https://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2016/07/17/sunday-trees-244/