If you haven’t heard it before, and if you love music and percussion, this is a must-see:
The world’s purest ice! Efim Viktorov, 21, filmed during group’s ice gig. Picture: Etnobit group
The Music of Water: The Siberian Ice Orchestra
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Zinnia: Flower of the Day, March 1, 2017
Here’s my flower for Cee’s Daily Flower Prompt.
The Couch Potato’s Creed
The Couch Potato’s Creed
Though he who hesitates is lost,
impetuosity has its cost.
You should look before you leap,
because still waters might run deep.
Though early birds might get the worm,
rash actions trip up the infirm.
So all-in-all I think it’s better
if you aren’t a go-getter.
I guess the moral to this tale
is lest you lose or lest you flail,
you’re up against the proverbial wall.
It’s best you do nothing at all!
I’ve discovered an interesting fact about Morrie. He frequently sleeps with his eyes wide open! In the above photo, he’s on the sofa, but I snapped the below photos one morning when he had usurped my bed as well:
The boy knows how to make himself comfortable.
The prompt today was “hesitate.”
Things are looking up in La Manzanilla!
To see the enlarged photos and read the captions, click on the first photo.
kids looking up at balls,
Morrie looking up at ball in mid flight.
folks looking up at papel picado,
or sawdust-covered cobwebs at the carpentaro’s.
or houses on the hillside.
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/02/28/cees-fun-foto-challenge-looking-up-at-things/
Fallen Giant: Sunday Trees 276
This large tree had fallen across the road near the shop of a carpenter where I’d gone to to have cut some boards for my art day with friends. The center section that was over the road had of course been taken away, but the rest of the tree was left where it fell. Local youth had availed themselves of its surface to use as a canvas for their communications on one side and nature had left its own mark on the other
Click on first photo to enlarge all and see slideshow.
https://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/sunday-trees-276/
Hospitable and Not: Travel Theme, Bark
The bark of this giant tree that had fallen across the road and been cut in two, then left with the chunk covering the road removed, became a host for other plants and fungi to thrive on.
Click on either photo to enlarge.
Just a few blocks away, we found this other bark—this one less welcoming to intruders.
For the Travel theme “bark!”
Fleur de lis: Flower of the Day, Feb 28, 2017
I love the fleur de lis-like squiggles at the center of this zinnia. Vive la macro!!!
Written in answer to Cee’s daily flower prompt.
No Biker Chick
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No Biker Chick
The reason I’m alive and kickin’
is because I’m such a chicken.
As the storm clouds form and thicken,
you won’t find me riding frikkin’
motorbikes, lest I be stricken
by a lightning bolt to sicken
and my death to surely quicken.
Sidenote: The Quickening is a phenomenon in the Highlander films and television series. Beheading a character known as an “Immortal” produces a powerful energy release from their body called a “Quickening.”
The prompt word today was quicken.
Brittle Beauties: Flower of the Day, Feb 27, 2017
Click on first flower to enlarge all and see slide series.
Glass? No. My friend Jan is the Chihuly of plastic. These beauties are fashioned using a simple votive candle, various cut-up plastic bottles and old CD or DVD discs. She had to make do with my “super match” at my house as I was fresh out of votives.
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/02/26/flower-of-the-day-february-27-2017-camellia/
Centering
Centering
Many folks are fearing the center will not hold.
Our unity is broken, our future has been sold.
But the ways of nature are complex and manifold.
And when the final stories of mankind have been told,
of how we “bested nature” by trying to break its mold,
when all our quests have ended, both for glory and for gold;
we won’t be its ending, but just another fold
whose exploits lay beneath the earth, written in the mold—
of how we “tamed” an environment that was too brash and bold,
wrapping it in hydrocarbons, conquering the cold.
The prompt word today was “center.”
