With the help of okcforgottenman, I finally got the Desert poem corrected and clear for viewing. If you had trouble seeing it before, have another look at it here:
Desert Redux
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Desert
Monkey See? Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge, 2016 Week 27
Monkey See, Monkey No See
Love this large sculpture on the street in Sheridan, Wyoming. I could be kept busy for days photographing all of the public sculpture here. This one, I think, qualifies as an oddball.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/08/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-27/
Butterfly Weed: Flower of the Day, July 10, 2016
OKCforgottenman furnished the name of this flower. If you want to check to see if he’s right, you can look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_tuberosa
Postaday: Busy Hands
Glass
Glass En Masse
It’s sometimes seen as goblets stored upon a shelf
where you can either look right through or stare back at yourself.
In a glass of tea leaves, your future may be spoken,
but its message like its holder may slash us when it’s broken.
It is a perfect metaphor of all that we may be––
on one hand pure distraction, on the other help us see.
Whether it’s a looking glass or one you see right through,
The glass you stand in front of mostly tells us about you.
Look Up
Twisted Sister: Flower of the Day, July 9, 2016
Twisted Sister: Columbine
(For my definitely-not-twisted sister Patti on her birthday. I never see columbines without thinking of mother, do you? This one is from our friend Patty’s garden.)
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/08/flower-of-the-day-july-9-2016-hydrangea-garden/
Streets of Sheridan
More images of Sheridan, Wyoming. A new baby buffalo in the elk and buffalo reserve, concerts in the park, more public sculptures, old buildings and signs mixed with new, an old theater where a drama festival takes place every summer and plays and music are staged throughout the year, interesting stores, restaurants and cowboys boots in size 0 to 15!!!
True or False?
True or False?
If every question had an answer clear as yes or no,
and we could more easily know the status quo,
life would not be so puzzling. The answers would be clear
about how we should run our lives. There would be less to fear.
In matters of importance, like college choice or major,
there would be less pondering and mistakes made, I’ll wager.
Our choice of whom to marry and everything we do
could be laid out on paper, put clearly in our view.
No more “to be or not to be.” No more mental maybes
when it comes to our decisions over houses, pets or babies.
Life would be just a check list labeled ” false or true”
with no equivocating over what to do.
The infinite variety of choices we now face
that have us always questioning at a faster pace
would be a simple matter—clear cut with no debate—
an indisputable right or wrong about whom we should date.
The lines would grow much longer for every “true” or “yes”
with all the “nos” and “falses” left lonely, I would guess.
With all things predetermined and all things black and white,
there would be just two choices over what was wrong or right.
No more essay questions. Each decision plain and clear.
At every choice we’d know exactly which way we should steer.
No doubt life would be simpler and easier in its scoring,
but I am also pretty sure that it would be more boring!
