For Cee’s FOTD
Shipwreck
In spite of your deep dark eyes and your other charms,
I fear I won’t be spending anymore time in your arms.
Wind and rain and reckless tides have scarred our ocean’s shore,
shifting channel stones, a dead sea denizen and more
to bar our access to that place where once we calmly drifted.
Our sea of love’s grown stormy and the sands of love have shifted.
If you had just honored that pledge you once recited,
perhaps this shipwreck of our love might somehow have been righted.
But, alas, the time is past that we can sail together.
I’ll cast my lines to mooring places safer in their tether.
For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 621 the prompt words are: rainy channel stone ocean bar scar shift drift honor dark eyes charms. Photo by Eileen Flynn on Unsplash.
Okay, this is impossible. I tried to answer the LAPC #268 Challenge, to publish my ten favorite photos and to say why they are my favorites, but I just got through the first 2,000 of the 149,000 photos in my photo file and I already have 35 even after culling out a dozen or so.
Click on photos to enlarge and to learn why I chose these photos.
There is no way I can go through the whole file, so I’m going to go with these and have you suggest which ones to cull to get it down to ten. Then, someone will have to direct me to the correct link for as much as I enjoyed Patti Moed’s blog which did follow the prompt beautifully, she did not give a link to the original prompt and I could not find it. So, those are my two excuses and I’m sticking to them. If you can suggest cuts and direct me to the correct prompt site, I’ll try again!!!
For Cee’s FOTD
The golden orb weaver spider featured in the first five photos is the spider I find to be most fascinating. The heavier zigzag web closest to its body is sticky, which allows the spider to capture and stun its prey with a quick bite, then to wrap it in silk. With venomous insects, the wrapping precedes the bite, which seems illogical, but must indicate that the spinning is a rapid process. Only 1/2 of all spiders , including the tarantula pictured above, do not spin webs, but all produce silk.
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Taken from my pool from 10:26 to 10:49 PM on September 21, 2023.
Here is Pensitivity’s task for us this Friday:
You may or not remember these popular movies, be they the originals or remakes, but what do you think they could have been about?
1. The Parent Trap: How my parents might have felt after the birth of their third child
2. The Incredible Journey: That first trip all on your own as a toddler when you slipped out of the bathtub when Mom’s back was turned and ran down the block to your Aunt Mabel’s house at the other end of the block stark naked! (True story)
3. Aladdin: A euphemistic description of a girl’s first sexual encounter.
4. Mission Impossible: The first time you had to parallel park for a driving test.
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: What your next door neighbor shouted over the back fence the day the you scrambled to retrieve the pages of your manuscript the wind had ripped out of your fingers and blown away.
6. The Wind in the Willows: When you slip out of the dinner party into the garden to fart. (Sorry for the indelicacy. I know no euphemism.)
7. Underworld: The real you under the girdle, the waist cincher or in the modern world, beneath the Spanx.
8. Legally Blonde: The results after you actually buy your hair coloring in the drug store instead of shoplifting it
9. The Terminator: Papa, when he flips the front porch lights off and on at ten o’clock during date night’s goodnight kiss
10. The Love Bug: Crabs
Put purdy pitcher hear.
Although I know the name of this flower, I can’t for the life of me remember it and the plant identifier refuses to name it, too. Someone help. A friend with a sense of humor set this up for me because he knew I’ve been crazy busy and didn’t have time to post it. The title and instructions are his!!! The flowers, however, whatever they are called, are my addition.
(They may be copa de oros (as not all copa de oros are gold, in spite of their name.) But, I’ve never noticed that little white flower like the center of a bougainvillea in the center of a copa de oro.)
For Cee’s FOTD
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 