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Beautiful Faces: Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Heads or Facial Features
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Incredible Wyoming
Remarkable scenery and my friend Patty (accompanied by sister Patti in the backseat driver’s seat) pulled over at least once for me to snap a picture as she drove me from Billings to Sheridan after my flight from California. Good thing, however, that we didn’t LINGER long–
The skies were spectacular but frightening as we could see the storm building up in front of us.
Can you see the tension in my friend Patty’s fists gripping the wheel as we try to outrun the storm?
Although we didn’t entirely miss the storm, we did escape the worst of it. Minutes after we passed, this area was deluged by hail. Patty’s new car would not have fared well. She at least speculated that she wouldn’t have to water her garden when she got home, but alas….
When we got closer to Sheridan, we learned that in fact no rain had fallen there.
In lieu of rain, We saw this good boy patiently waiting for his master to come back to his big rig.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/linger/
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: More Pairs
I have been struggling with Apple’s “new and improved?” photo app to replace iPhoto. Whine, whine. I’m getting a bit used to it but could not figure out how to transfer pictures to my blog. Finally discovered that they’ve added one more step to that process and that I have to download pics to my desktop instead of dragging them to WordPress directly from the photo app. How is this an improvement, Apple? I’ve finally found where they’ve hidden away all the old editing features so I’m not quite as crabby as I was last night when I discovered that this had happened when I updated. Why don’t they tell us what these updates are going to do? At any rate, I just had to show off my newest skills so will add two more “pairs” photos to Cee’s challenge. I loved the reflection of my sister’s chandelier in wine glasses on her dining room table, so will share a couple of the shots with you here. More grist for your mill, Cee.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/05/19/cees-fun-foto-challenge-pairs/
Linger
It is those times
over dinner
when we have lifted a glass
or two–
those times
without husbands, who are home
watching a game
or out with gun and skeet–
those times
with long-ago college schemes
or scandals
remembered–
when, although no longer hungry,
we nonetheless order a dessert
with three forks
as an excuse to linger.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Linger.”
One Word Photo Challenge: Hot
Can’t get any hotter than this globo (hot air balloon) falling from the sky over Ajijic, Mexico.
The admittedly augmented hot lamp was in Morehouse, Missouri. Can’t blame a girl for cheating to meet a prompt.
These may not be the hottest chilis on your plate,
but I can attest to the fact that it was HOT both days I took these two pictures at the beach.
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2015/05/19/one-word-photo-challenge-hot/
A Placebo Is Not Enough.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Placebo Effect,” If you could create a painless, inexpensive cure for a single ailment, what would you cure and why?
Without a doubt, I’d choose ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. It is such an insidious disease, and one of my greatest fears is not being able to breathe or swallow. When I was in my twenties, I had an older friend who contracted it. He was a lovely, warm, funny man who was a teacher in the same school I taught in. I think it was probably the first time I’d heard of the disease. Probably the first time I’d heard of Lou Gehrig, as well, as I’ve never been a sports fan. It was so painful to see how quickly my friend Bill deteriorated and since then it seems as though the disease has become much more widespread. It would tie with Alzheimer’s as my most feared disease, but since I’ve already written two posts on my sister’s Alzheimer’s, (Read one HERE,) I guess this fear wins out this time.
This is one of those topics where there is no possibility of a humorous or lighthearted answer. Rhyming wouldn’t help and the subject seems too grim for even poetry. My answer is as straightforward as I wish a cure could be. I’m sure there will always be diseases. When one is tackled, nature seems to think up another to take its place; but it is hard to conceive of one more heartbreaking than ALS.
A Doll’s Life
I rescued this doll, my pride and joy at age 6, from my sister’s attic. I thought it had been lost to a tornado forty years ago, but it seems my sister had whisked it off from my parents’ basement prior to the tornado that ripped its roof off a few years later. Minus her shoes and socks and a bit dirty of face, she shows the wear and tear of two more generations of little girls. She is a near-life-sized walking doll. If you lift one arm and lower it, it causes her legs to see-saw and if you hold on tight, she walks with you. One eye has come loose in the socket, but she retains the full-cheeked youth that most of the little girls who have played with her have since forfeited. I no longer remember her name, but I do remember which corner of my yellow-walled, green linoleumed and dormered room she resided in.
Oops–just found this one I have to add. Found at the beach recently:
These pictures and this story are in response to this challenge: http://teepee12.com/2015/05/20/serendipitous-photo-prompt-2015-6-toni-plastic/
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pairs
I’ve been saving this photo for just the right challenge and I think this is it! I took it at the archeological museum in Mexico City at least five years ago.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/05/19/cees-fun-foto-challenge-pairs/
Cee’s Which Way Challenge, May 19, 2015
All roads lead to home.
Making the way easier.
The sylvan way.
More Hats?????
I teased my friend Jane so much about this hat that she ended up leaving it with me in Mexico when she went back to California. It had come in handy on the night I took this picture of her, however, as we were marooned in the middle of a large lake at midnight. We were in Patzcuaro and had gone out to look at the Dia de los Muertos ceremonies on an island in the lake. We hadn’t expected for the propeller to get caught up in fishing nets and for the process of freeing our boat to take hours. Needless to say, the warm clothing we’d been told to wear came in handy.
I make no excuse for the friend pictured in the above headgear. The first he actually found in his own closet and yes, it has a tail. The second reflects his confusion over just what the headscratcher I gave him was meant for. I later discovered he’d been wearing it out to parties! If you’d like to see more of this silly man, look HERE.
I know, I know. I already published pictures of hats yesterday, but this morning I discovered these as well and I had to add them to the theme.
