No Rest for the Wicked
Now that the art walk is finished and I no longer have to maintain a pristine home, I’ve hauled out my art materials as well as the things I’ve collected from the beach and I’m planning a few dozen new pieces. This is the fun part, with the shells and wood and other elements laid out all over the kitchen and dining room and pushing and shoving into place. Not glued down or even fully planned, just getting the pieces assembled.
Electric Lime: Color Your World
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/03/color-your-world-electric-lime/
Color Your World Sandy
By the way, I got a broom and some plastic oars and some help and we did get this fellow back out to the water.
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/01/color-your-world-desert-sand/
The Prompt: Your book is about to be recorded as an audiobook. If you could choose anyone to narrate it, who would it be?
She Reads Me!
When ever I go off to sleep
there is some company I keep.
No Teddy bear or other furry––
the thing I use to stave off worry
of that proverbial smoking gun–
the unkind deeds I might have done–
is a simple bedtime rite–
an audio book to stave off night.
Instead of wandering my mind,
mental ramblings of another kind
fill my thoughts before I slumber,
for fiction does less to encumber
my dreams with guilts of past misdeeds.
Entertainment rarely breeds
nightmares of a shocking sort.
The words of others just abort
somnambulant wanderings through the vast
savannas of my distant past.
So–short story long, if you’re the same––
using sleep to sort through blame
for all your guilty pleasures past,
and if you seek a way to cast
off all these worries of the night,
and choose my words to soothe your plight,
When I lay you down to sleep,
I hope I’m read by Meryl Streep.
Here’s what I wrote the first time I answered this prompt: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/09/11/3307/
Things That Sizzle
You’ll never convince me that those shoes aren’t hot!!! And, this little dog was so hot on the beach that he helped himself to some of the water from the plastic tub we wash our feet in to wash off beach sand. Ew!!!
http://ceenphotography.com/2016/02/02/cees-fun-foto-challenge-things-that-are-hot/
Okay, to be fair I must reblog this. Tell me if you agree with me! And tell my colorblind friend as well.
Some of you know that my bff is Judy/Remi, therefore we must sometimes disagree. Tonight she responded to this prompt to post photos showing the color eggplant:
I suggested (well, strongly recommended) that she include the photo below in her post, but she declined (well, refused), because she says my t-shirt is maroon and oh-so-not eggplant. My eyes disagree. So, I put it to you, gentle observant occasional readers: does this photo show me wearing an eggplant-colored t-shirt (as I search for that damned buzzing fly)? Yea or nay?
Eggplant
I couldn’t imagine what photos I’d find with eggplant in them–until I saw these photos I’d taken of sunsets and then it was perfectly obvious!!
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/02/color-your-world-eggplant/
NEW CROP: NET YIELD
No question which of these crops I like best. The closeup is by far my favorite, but you need to click on it to see a bigger version to appreciate the difference.
To see more “cropping” stories, go to Cee’s website:
http://ceenphotography.com/2016/01/27/cees-compose-yourself-photo-challenge-week-15-cropping/
Taking the Long Way Home
Class Reunion
Since we know where we are going so well,
let’s take the longest route there,
out past England’s Hill and that dip in the road we kids called lover’s leap.
Silly the traditions we tried to pretend––as though our histories weren’t long enough
to have attracted real ones. Now all of those old newnesses
are curling with age, discolored, cracking at the edges––
their roughness catching realities and dreams
and mixing them together so none of us
can remember the difference.
The Prompt: This Is Your Song–Take a line from a song that you love or connect with. Turn that line into the title of your post. (My song was “Long Way Home” by Tom Waits.)
