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The first photo is one I took at sunset in La Manzanilla where for years I spent a month or two each year. The poem is made to reflect the path of moonlight or sunlight on water. This photo is going to be used for the back cover of my book soon to be published, “If I Were Water and You Were Air.”
This was another surprise popup in my planter near the hot tub. Must have planted it long ago and it reappeared. Love the tiny little gold flowers bursting out of the black bee bees in its center.
The challenge for Fibbing Friday this week is to interpret these words or phrases::
1. “A few sandwiches short of a picnic” What you get when you send a hungry kid to the deli to pick up your order for the party.
2. “Bagsy” My mysterious guest in my garden a few weeks ago. (See him HERE.)
3. “Bog-standard” My East Indian doctor, Dr. Adnatsgob’s door sign, seen in a mirror.
4. “Budge up” My dad’s advice to me when I asked him for a loan. “Nope. No way. Better budge up instead!”
5. “Chinwag” My dog’s response to the smell of a bag of McDonald’s hamburgers.
6. “Faff” That sound a can of hair spray makes when it has just run out of spray.
7. “Full Monty” Monty Python after the cast picnic when you haven’t sent a hungry kid to the deli to pick up your order for the party.
8. “Give me a tinkle on the blower”: Donald Trump’s entreaty at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow.
9. “On it like a car bonnet” What you answer, pointing to your head, when a friend asks you where the bird shit on you.
10. “Tickety-boo” What your offense is called when a cop gives you a ticket for sneaking up behind him and scaring him.
Another beauty from this prolific bush. A sunny new greeting every day.
Okay, I cheated by not showing you how tiny they are. I was just amazed at how beautiful they were when magnified. If you want to see them closer up, go HERE.
This is actually a huge spindly bush that grows up from my lot below..at least 15 feet high. It looks weedy from farther away and today all the flowers are closed, but looks beautiful in this photo, I think. And the other closer up photos. Link above.
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I’m holding back one photo until after someone guesses correctly what flowers these are. A remarkable difference between them, but they are all the same flower. Can anyone name them?
In a Pinch
A pinch of this, a pinch of that.
A pinch of salt or pinch of fat.
What is held between one’s fingers,
the thought of it most surely lingers—
those grains of salt to lick off you
or thoughts of belly fat to rue.
The dVerse Quadrille prompt today is pinch.
To see how others have responded to the prompt, go HERE.
Image by Ksenia Makagono on Unsplash.
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