Monthly Archives: September 2023

Cold-Hearted, Short Little Prompt Poem

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 I woke up to this prompt from Forgottenman:
No friggin’ idea why, but I just conjured up a three-word prompt: anvil, fluffy,                        sediment. Do with them as you will or not. (Yeah, I needa head to bed.)
I’ve said before that I am game for any challenge, so here goes:

Cold-Hearted
You’re fluffy as an anvil, as sweet as cod liver pie.
The sediment from the hearts you’ve broken piles up so high
that you can’t be seen behind it, so there you sit, alone.
reflecting on the shattered loves for which you must atone.

Image by Kasia Darenda on Unsplash. And this poem, although written in the second person, is not directed at the prompter. 

 

 

Aloe Vera Bloom: FOTD Sept 26, 2023

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The hummingbirds will soon be out in full force!  This is my view from my desk.

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Cat Blanket

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The Cat Blanket
“If Mom’s gonna spread out, we may as well do so, too.”
(Click on photos to enlarge.)

And how many cats here?
How many cats in this Photo?

The kitties were all girlcatting it around outside when I lay down on the sofa, but when I woke up after a 3-hour unplanned nap, they were covering about all of me. I had been listening to a book on my Kindle when I fell asleep, but I suddenly realized it had a camera on it, so then and there, I learned how to use my Kindle to take these photos and how to send them to my computer, all while lying under a cozy cat blanket! I love it that I’m just the bottom cat in the pile.

For The Carrot Ranch’s 99-Word Story prompt

Bougainvillea For FOTD, Sept. 25, 2023

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For Cee’s FOTD

Shipwreck, for Wordle 621

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Shipwreck

In spite of your deep dark eyes and your other charms,
I fear I won’t be spending anymore time in your arms.
Wind and rain and reckless tides have scarred our ocean’s shore,
shifting channel stones, a dead sea denizen and more
to bar our access to that place where once we calmly drifted.
Our sea of love’s grown stormy and  the sands of love have shifted.
If you had just honored that pledge you once recited,
perhaps this shipwreck of our love might somehow have been righted.
But, alas, the time is past that we can sail together.
I’ll cast my lines to mooring places safer in their tether.

 

For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 621 the prompt words are: rainy channel stone ocean bar scar shift drift honor dark eyes charms.  Photo by Eileen Flynn on Unsplash.

Favorite Photos–Flunking the Prompt.

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Okay, this is impossible. I tried to answer the LAPC #268 Challenge, to publish my ten favorite photos and to say why they are my favorites,  but  I just got through the first 2,000 of the 149,000 photos in my photo file and I already have 35 even after culling out a dozen or so.

Because it reminds me daily that the biggest disasters may have their rewards.
Because this scene from my back yard is never the same twice in a row but is always beautiful.
Because it reminds me why I couldn’t resist bringing her home from the beachside restaurant where she first curled up on my lap and won my heart.
Because he is such a wonderful friend and hammock buddy.
Because it is my favorite view!!!
Because it is the only photo of my sisters and me as adults.
Because it reflects so well the two things I love most about Mexico: the children and the artistry.
Because her delight conjured up such memories of the slide in the playground across the street from my childhood home and my own trips down it.
Uphill
More of the same. I couldn’t decide.
Because it conjured up a wonderful afternoon in the San Miguel Botanical Desert Gardens with my dear departed friend Joe and my long-unseen friend Dale.
I loved the joy of this trio on the San Juan Malecon. Surely they were too young to be her parents so it must have been lovers with one of their siblings.
Wheelies. Just loved capturing it at the exact correct moment.
I don’t know why I love this shot.
The beauty of a weed.
Love the capture of the bricks in flight and the happy laborers all.
A reaching hand in the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadlupe in Mexico City
This choice has to be obvious. What potential in these hundreds of tiny beginnings.
Probably my alltime favorite, captured on a soda straw at my favorite beach resturant in La Manzanilla
Ah, that Amazon Jungle trip..and exotic new bugs!
A visitor by my kitchen door. Gorgeous little guest.
A different variety of butterfly visits in a cycle every year.
Sisters. Who can resist their antics?
I love this tender moment captured at the anniversary party of friends.
And this is why I had to bring her home..the morning after I adopted her in her new collar just woven for her on the beach.
I said line up in order of size!!!

Click on photos to enlarge and to learn why I chose these photos.

There is no way I can go through the whole file, so I’m going to go with these and have you suggest which ones to cull to get it down to ten. Then, someone will have to direct me to the correct link for as much as I enjoyed Patti Moed’s blog which did follow the prompt beautifully, she did not give a link to the original prompt and I could not find it. So, those are my two excuses and I’m sticking to them. If you can suggest cuts and direct me to the correct prompt site, I’ll try again!!!

Curtain Call for FOTD Sept 24, 2023

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For Cee’s FOTD

Spinners, for Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge

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The golden orb weaver spider featured in the first five photos is the spider I find to be most fascinating. The heavier zigzag web closest to its body  is sticky, which allows the spider  to capture and stun its prey with a quick bite, then to wrap it in silk. With venomous insects, the wrapping precedes the bite, which seems illogical, but must indicate that the spinning  is a rapid process. Only 1/2 of all spiders , including the tarantula pictured above, do not spin webs, but all produce silk. 

 

 

For Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge: Spiders and their Webs

Crown of Thorns: FOTD Sept 23, 2023

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For Cee’s FOTD

Night Shots

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Click on photos to enlarge.

Taken from my pool from 10:26 to 10:49 PM on September 21, 2023.

 

For Thursday Tree Love