Nightmare.
Come here, my dear.
Those dangers near,
though they appear
to mock and leer,
will not come here.
So dry each tear.
Danger’s jeer,
it’s truly clear,
is just sheer
groundless fear.
The prompt for SOCS is to grab the book closest to you, open at random and use the first three words of the first full sentence on that page to start your post. Here goes….The book was The Blue Butterfly by Leslie Johansen Nack. The three words, Come here, my. . . .
Image by Paz Z on Unsplash.
For Cee”s FOTD
Magic Circle
Ring around a Rosie
safe within a hoop.
Mommy drew a circle
around the chicken coop.
When the fox jumped over it,
the hens began to squawk,
voicing their alarm
in raucous chicken talk.
Mommy grabbed a broom
to drive the rascal out,
punctuating every swing
with an angry shout.
Now the fox is sulking,
hungry little pest
while each hen is settled
securely in her nest.
The ring around this Rosie,
our most prolific hen,
means that we’ll have scrambled eggs
more than now and then!!!
For the Three Things Challenge
The three words today are:
RING
CIRCLE
HOOP
Creative definitions:
1. What is a mitre? A gauge for measuring electricitre.
2. What is a dumpster? A really cool cat garbage collector.
3. What is a relic? What the tongue reflexively does after the first lick when consuming an ice cream cone on a very hot day.
4. What is a puffball? A formal dance for smokers only.
5. What is an accolade? A sugary drink made from packets of fruit-flavored powder that kids used to sell from stands on the sidewalk in the fifties and sixties. (Misspelled, by the way)
6. What do the initials O.B.E. stand for? “Obsessively Breaking Eggs.” —what serves as a “Closed” sign on the omelet parlor door while preparing for Sunday Brunch.
7. What is a hide chew? The sound made during a sneeze.
8. What is caffoy? An appreciative utterance made while sipping a delicious cup of kosher coffee.
9. What is an erf? Three-quarters of a nerf ball that has been chewed by a dog.
10. What is umbel? What you should pretend to be when given a compliment by someone.
For Pensivity’s Fibbing Friday Image by Simone Secci on Unsplash.
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I nearly missed out on the fact that today is “National I Love My Feet” day!!!! Above are some of my favorite foot shots. Just couldn’t confine my photos to my own feet, although there are are few of them in there. Anybody recognize any of the other feet?
In case that hasn’t satisfied your foot fetish, here is another post on the subject: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/08/06/hands-feet-paws-cees-black-white-photo-challenge/
Thanks to Carol Cormier for pointing out that it is National I Love My Feet Day!!!! Have a look at her link to see her family’s feet.
Here is the state of the banana cluster for Cee’s FOTD. The flower was already shown HERE.
as a “What flower is this?” post. Two folks guessed immediately. Guess there are more banana growers in the world than simply me! The bananas are presently just 5 inches long. The red part of the flower is 10 inches. I think the fluffy part at the top of the flower is actually little aborted bananas. Is that as much as you wanted to hear about bananas today? I’m fascinated, looking forward to another crop as there wasn’t one last year and bananas mean banana bread. And calories. Hmmm.
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Cee’s response to the Lens Artists Challenge inspired me to do three quickie shots through my living room/office windows. See her window shots HERE.
This was a surprise find in my garden the other day. I know what it is. Do you? I’ll tell after five guesses!!!! It is huge, by the way. At least a foot long. Actually, the second two people guessed correctly. It is a banana bloom! I’m going to have bananas this year!!!
For Cee’s FOTD. See her beautiful echinacea HERE.
