Monthly Archives: September 2023

Wallflower: Three Things Challenge #444

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Wallflower

You think I cannot see you behind your curtain blind,
hiding in the shadows. You are the cautious kind.
You drape yourself in darkness, thinking I will not see,
but still the colors of your soul come shining out at me.

Step forward to the lightness. There is no danger here.
There is at least one person who bids you to come near.
Whether bad or good will come from joining life’s mad dance,
you will never know until you choose to take the chance.

The three words for the Three Things Challenge  #444this week are: CURTAIN DRAPE BLIND
Image by Susan Flores on Unsplash.

Paws…for Marilyn

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Marilyn and I were discussing cat paws and I promised to post my favorite paw photos!

Sleeping Arrangements

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Tabachine: FOTD Sept 6, 2023

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I stopped the car and parked to get photos of this beautiful tabachine bush. It was in front of a house in the Raquet Club where I live! I have one like it but not as fully bushed out.

For Cee’s FOTD

Topsy Turvy Welcome Home

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When I drove into the garage today, this is the sight that greeted me front and center!  

And here is the rest of the story. . . .

Their usual resting place still usurped by paint cans,
they are reduced to sleeping in their bed perched precariously on the cupboards between the front fender and the garage wall.
Makes for some novel positions.
(One up and one down. . .)

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Orange Hibiscus: FOTD, Sept 5, 2023

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This hibiscus blooms once in a blue moon and usually only one bloom. Luckily I caught it this time!!!

For Cee’s FOTD

All Show and No Chew!!!!

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Yesterday I bought 96 pouches of cat food in 4 different flavors.  I then sorted them into boxes so the kitties would have a different meal every meal for 2 days. But, guess what the very last pouch I pulled out of the bag looked like?

No problem. Mom will handle it for us!

It was totally empty. All sealed up like the others, but totally empty.  Wonder how often this happens? I threw away the receipt so sure Walmart won’t trade it for a full one so guess I’ll just keep it as a souvenir.

Indian Shot Lily FOTD Sept 4, 2023

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For Cee’s FOTD

S.O.S.: For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 618

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S.O.S

Debris that’s caught up by the wind swells and rips and surges,
then falls to blanket ponds and fields and fill up roadside verges.
We trace its patterns in the woods, caught up along the trail.
We try to overlook it in the passing, but we fail.

It rolls down meadow pathways formerly pristine.
We trace its ugly progress through every canyon scene—
in a plastic bag’s graffiti plastered to a cavern wall.
Who will come to rescue our world before its fall?

Is any wiser culture listening for the call
from out there in the Universe, far from this spinning ball
that we are all trapped on, choking in the air
created by our progress, as we strip it bare?

 

The Sunday Whirl  Wordle 618 prompts today are: call, trace, rescue, debris, wind, swell, rip, surge, pass, rolls, trail, woods

Milk Thistle: For Cee’s FOTD Sept 3, 2023

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Although I thought this was a thistle, I couldn’t find it by Googling it and my plant identifier said it wasn’t a flower!  Finally I took a photo of my photo and reduced it in size and sharpened it and put it through the plant identifier again and sure enough, milk thistle!  All in all I spent nearly an hour trying to post and identify. Crazy.

For Cee’s FOTD