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Photogray, progressive lenses. So far my little darling Zoe has destroyed $1200 worth of glasses. Found these hanging on a bush. I’ve been looking for them for two weeks.
Finally found my glasses!
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Monthly Archives: March 2023
Reading Challenged
Reading Challenged
Diana Gabaldon’s romances are way too historic.
Koolkosherkitchen‘s recipes? Delicious, but caloric.
Mo Willems counts on pigeons to chase away the blues,
but I’d never volunteer to fill any pigeon’s shoes
due to my fear of flying, so even in a pinch,
to read of being airborne causes me to flinch.
Can’t read Cormac McCarthy or Murakami either.
When violence erupts in books, I have to take a breather.
Harlequin romances are too mushily romantic,
for I prefer my novels less sexually pedantic.
All-in-all you might have guessed I’ve little left to read
and so instead I write all day to satisfy my need
to hang out with a word or two that has not been written
by writers such as those above by whom I’ve not been smitten.
And though my poems aren’t edible or sexually explicit,
violent or airborne, I feel it is implicit
that I need an appointment with my therapist to see
if I can even stomach silly verses penned by me!
Prompt words are pinch, historic, appointment, volunteer, and flying. Image by Brendan Stephens on Unsplash.
Fallen Treasure: FOTD Mar 13, 2023
Rivers, Lakes and Oceans: Water Water Everywhere, #167
Finally, the gorgeous turquoise waters of Big Spring and Little Spring, which together bubble out of the rocks to join to the Current River.
Due to extrememly high water levels, the banks were verdant
The beauty of the surrounds, coupled with the vivid turquoise of the water is spellbinding.
Boats were nestled in among the water hyacinth.
Those trees out in the water were on dry land a few months ago.
dealing with a few pushy seagulls, but totally leaving alone another black blob a bit down the way on the sand near the water. Was it??
He told me to sit very still and showed me how to adjust my balance a bit when the water got choppy.
The water ran swift and free,
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Euphorbia Flanaganii : FOTD Mar 12, 2023
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Thanks to my friend Linda Levy for identifying this flowering succulent as a euphorbia flanaganii. Also want to thank her in advance for reminding me of its name when I forget it in the future!!!
For Cee’s FOTD
Escargot
Escargot
I am an ally of the truth, which lives the whole world over,
hiding beneath leaves of grass or hyacinths or clover.
A tiny snail detective, sliding slowly with no sound,
scoping out a food source over every edge and mound—
with its single jaw at work, nature’s innovation
cleans up all her messes with its constant mastication.
Cutter ants march by like time, disposing hour by hour,
of beauty we aren’t finished with, flower after flower,
but the snail goes gliding by, almost beyond detection,
eating everything in sight—less picky in selection.
From animal waste to fungus, and even other snails,
the appetite of gastropods seemingly never fails.
And then, ludicrous humans, knowing not what they do,
themselves devour these creatures who deign to dine on poo!
Prompt words today are snail, innovation, detective, march, ally and clover.
Nature Photo Challenge: Pink
Except for the photos of La Manzanilla beach, all of the photos are from my yard. The first photo is of the fin of a needlefish near sunset. You can see it again in the second to last photo. At a certain stage of darkness, my camera tends to translate darkness as rose pink. Thus the pink glow in the photo of the palm tree.
Echeveria Bloom
Dreamworld
Dreamworld
My dreams are irregular and I cannot control them.
Every night I enter them in order to patrol them.
Sometimes I feel marooned there, like a miner with no pick,
a writer with no pencil, a conductor with no stick.
Vanity is left behind. No room for it in dreams.
Life’s garment that we’ve sewn with care is ripped out at its seams.
It does no good to gripe or moan that you have lost control,
for dreams move us outside ourselves as though that is their goal.
On the outside looking in, our life becomes a role
in which we play ourself in our quest to find our soul.
Prompts today are dreams, irregular, maroon, gripe, miner and vanity.
Book Launch for “When Old Dames Get Together” March 16, 2023
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Please join us for the Book Launch for When Old Dames Get Together and Other Confessions of a Ripe Old Age on March 16, from 2-4 at Diane Pearl’s Gallery, 23 Santa Marguerita, Ajijic. (If you are driving from Ajijic or other westerly directions, go East on the Carretera and turn left at Mom’s Deli (Before Pancho’s) toward the mountains. Go one block and turn right. Diane’s Gallery is the fourth house on the right.)
For more information on this adult coloring book with humorous poems by Judy Dykstra-Brown and wonderful illustrations to color by Isidro Xilonzóchitl, click on the illustration. There might be some surprises in store for you!!!
Please pass this information on to your friends. We look forward to seeing you there.
The book is also available on Amazon, in La Bella Vida Gallery on Constitution and in Diane’s Gallery.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 