Just as I started to photograph this flower, a bee flew up and fastened itself to its face.
For Cee’s FOTD
Wildflowers: FOTD May 15, 2022
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Rainy Season, at Last!
1956, Johnssen’s Dam
The runoff from last night’s rain shoots from the drain that pierces a high stone wall.
Floating around in innertubes?.
Rainy Season, at Last!
The drought has been demoted to third or fourth page news
since storm clouds started gathering in various somber hues.
The headlines now predict the news that storms will soon be coming,
and those athirst for moisture will soon find raindrops drumming.
Rivulets with ebb and flow and gutters will be brimming
and they might as well close down the school. The kids will all be swimming!
Prompt words today are athirst, demoted, ebb, flow and headline.
Hibiscus in Waiting, FOTD May 14, 2022
Happy Mother’s Day!!!
Mother’s Day is celebrated a few days later in Mexico than it is in the States. Jesus brought his family to my house to start out the day of celebration last Tuesday. He is pictured with his wife, Berta, son Eduardo and daughter Rosario and her boyfriend Jairo, as well as my “Kids”–stepson Jeff and his wife Debbi. We had a fun whirlwind week trying to beat the heat. This pool party helped.
Jesus communes with Morrie.
JACUZZI
JESUS IN THE JACUZZI
Eduardo
Rosario and Jairo. Cute couple, huh?
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Here are some more photos. You may notice that Zoey received more than her share of attention:
The only problem arose when Jesus tried to put on his shoes and socks and Zoey turned proprietorial. It took three people assert Jesus’ claims to his own shoes and socks.
Click on photos to see the action:
Then his shoe
Zoe goes after Jesus’s socks
Disquieting Muses
Disquieting Muses
Disquieting muses take over my mind,
creating dreams of the frustrating kind.
They open the padlocks and bring out to play
old worries I thought had been long locked away.
Iniquities for which I thought I’d atoned
seem to have thrived and emerge newly cloned.
Richer by far as though funded by time,
they grow flowering vines that smother and climb.
They glow in the dark to remind me of all
that I’ve done in the past that could cause a great fall.
But when I awaken, I know very well
that purloined penny candies won’t land me in Hell.
Prompt words are disquieting, padlock, iniquity, glow and fund.
Encroachment: FOTD May 13, 2022
Somewhere under there, there should be a geranium and moss roses, but perhaps they’ve been choked out by invaders.
Revolt at Walmart
Revolt at Walmart
Give us the proper rebate if you want us to behave.
We have our coupons in our hands and we’re not going to cave.
It is not iniquity to ask for what you’re due.
Accede to our demands or we’re going to mount a coup.
So what if it’s a misprint in the paper? Not our fault.
Produce what you offered, for we’re not going to halt.
Although you say to honor it would amount to a steal,
20 for 1 seems to us a reasonable deal!
Prompt words for the day are proper, beam, rebate, iniquity and behave.
Garden with Pool: FOTD May 12, 2022
Click on Photos to enlarge.
Bougainvillea and plumeria are the two main flowers you can see in this photo.
Tree Hibiscus: FOTD, May 11, 2022
Imagine a huge tree covered with these gorgeous blooms and the sun in the right position to turn them into stained glass.
For Cee’s FOTD
Gardener
Gardener
As life tautens its string and pulls me along,
I delay thoughts of my funeral gong
with a story, a rhyme, a poem or a song,
creativity being the one way I know
to write my own ending for the end of the show.
Our quota of years, that cessation of flow,
that furtive departure, that summons to go,
that human surrender to the undertow,
need not be an ending to all that we know.
That’s why I have chosen to come here and stow
what little I’ve learned in an orderly row
of words on this page, following head to toe,
that tell parts of my life, be they pleasure or woe.
I plant them here, hoping that they will grow
into tall verdant meadows that you’ll want to mow.
Prompt words today are creativity, human, furtive, tauten and quota.
