This is my neighbor David peering over my wall at a very large spider spinning its web between my trees..
Last on the Card, Sept 30, 2024
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Monthly Archives: September 2024
Up on the Rooftop
My neighbors just sent me this photo of the roof of my kitchen. Their house is up much higher than mine so I can’t really see this roof garden except a bit of it from my hammocks down below. I love the looks of it. A few ferns there, as well. Does anyone know if this could undermine my roof? If I need to remove them, I’d love to plant them below in the garden. The two tall ones are gorgeous!!! (Photo by David Bershad.)
7 for Seven Squares
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The photo of my hand in front of the round rainbow in the sky was made while going through the Panama Canal. I’d never seen this phenomenon before.. Amazing.
For Becky’s Sevem Squares
“Portal” For Cellpic Sunday, Sept 29, 2024
I love the frame created by the side of the building and the lower wall and light post to make the portion of the lit street between them look like a lit doorway. I’ve been saving this photo for a week or two, looking for the chance to use it. This seemed like the perfect time, given Jonbo’s photo.
Day and Night, For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 673, Sept 29, 2024
Day and Night
The stream of life brings good and bad—
both peace and torment to be had.
Dreaming adventure’s a sure bet.
If you don’t jump in, you won’t get wet.
Those secret knives that rip the seams
of the fabric of your dreams—
That fiery breath that sears your lungs
as you tell lies that fork your tongue?
Tucked here safe within your bed,
you have no cause for fears or dread.
Truth seen in glimpses, through lash-closed eyes
may be wisdom in disguise.
For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 673. the words are: wet jump secret dream bed breath secrets lashes fire plague glimpses
The Numbers Game #41, Sept. 30, 2024. Please Play Along!
Welcome to “The Numbers Game #41”. Today’s number is 162. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.
This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Below are my contributions to the album:
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Kalanchoe, for FOTD Sept 29, 2024
I worked outside in the rain for two days (thanks, Patricia!) to get ready for a garden tour I am on–moving plants, planting new ones (including this kalanchoe,) trimming dead growth and leaves and even spreading lava rock in beds. During one day of constant rain, I changed my clothes and blow-dried my hair 3 times before giving up and just working in my swim suit, and yes, it was cold. Then, yesterday, I discovered that the garden tour is on Oct. 19, not on Tuesday!!!! So, still work to do but lots more time to do it. Nothing gets one mobilized like the promise of visitors.
For Cee’s FOTD
For One Word Sunday’s Silver & Gold Prompt, Sept 29, 2024
Sunset over Lake Chapala for Weekend Sky, Sept 28, 2024
I know this looks like an AI photo, but I swear that it is an unadulterated photo that I took from my back yard! Below is another one.
For Hammad’s Weekend Sky Prompt
Beauty in Unexpected Places
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I love the story behind beauty as much as the beauty itself. The plant fragment, fallen just right for sniffing, the beauty sculpted by nature, a toothbrush in a cup, the arrangement of food on a plate, a caterpillar with a crystal crown. All of these unexpected beauties of eye and mind command our attention.
for Lens Artists Challenge 318: Finding beauty in unexpected places
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 