This is a friend holding a nosegay of flowers she’d picked in a field when we stopped to admire the wildflowers on the way to Tapalpa. I altered it using one of the art filters on Lunapic.
For Cee’s FOTD
Nosegay, FOTD Mar 24, 2022
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A Tyke Named Stormy
A Tyke Named Stormy
He’s not your standard toddler. He’s a variant of the norm.
On rainy days he’d rather be out in the raging storm,
splashing through the mud puddles on his trusty trike
or trudging through small rivulets on a block-long hike.
When standard kids all huddle inside beside the fire,
he loves to face the bracing wind and plod through muddy mire.
I’d say he’s climate versatile. He’s game for any weather.
He likes to be out in the wild, free from any tether.
Most kids aren’t predictable, but this one surely is.
At dealing with bad weather, he surely is a whizz.
If any person can predict, I think for sure I can.
Some years hence, I think he’d make a perfect weatherman!
Prompt words today are versatile, standard, hike, hence and variant.
Fallen Before Its Time: FOTD Mar 23, 2022
Mysteries
Forgottenman wants to know why I haven’t published any photos of Zoe for the past 5 days. I’ve been busy preparing and setting up my show but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been taking photos. I just haven’t posted them. Here they are, presented as a set of mysteries:
Mystery #1. What is Diego doing standing out in the cold?
(Click on photos to enlarge and read about today’s mysteries.)
Why isn’t he snug in his cushy mat in his cage?
Seems as though someone has appropriated his cage and bed for herself.
Guess who?
It is soooo comfy. We don’t know where Diego slept last night but he surrendered his digs to her without one complaint.
Mystery # 2: When my friend Brad was over the other night helping me pack up my car with work for my show, we came in to watch a movie and had no place to place our gin and tonics. Does anyone know where my Oaxacan woven coasters are?
The coasters are always left right here in a pile on the coffee table in the sala.
So how did they end up in a pile on the rug in my bedroom?
I’ll zoom in to collect more evidence,
Mom’s? Zoe’s coasters
Mystery # 3: Both of my printers stopped working because the ink has run out, so I need the last copy of my manuscript, even though it wasn’t a very good copy.
My manuscript
Mystery # 4: Now that Zoe has outgrown her collar that her Aunties Chris and Sherry bought for her and has a new one, what can be done with the old collar that I had to cut off her because the double knot was too strong to untie?
This is Zoe’s last photo in her old collar that is now too tight.
Here is her new collar, which I found in the same pink as the one her Aunties bought her, because pink seems to be her color.
And as you can see, the minute I cut the old one off her, she found a use for it as her newest toy. That’s it dangling from her mouth.
At the Movies
At the Movies
Looked up too late and so I missed
the moment that the lovers kissed.
Taking a break, I closed my eyes.
Missed seeing how the hero dies.
Paresthesia setting in
caused me to take a little spin
for five minutes or maybe ten
to the lobby and back and then
when I got back, the credits started.
So as everyone departed,
I left as well, regretting so
how I had missed most of the show.
With old film cameras, when the bulb flashed,
it produced something that would last.
A photo mounted in a book
gave something upon which to look.
But movies are impermanent.
Moment after moment went
into the past, so if one blinked,
what they had missed became extinct.
That’s why next time I didn’t go
when invited to the show.
I stayed at home and had a nap,
my photo album in my lap.
Prompts today are look up, missed, paresthesia, bulb and old film camera.
FOTD Mar 22, 2022
Story Time at the Library
Story Time at the Library
Cluster here around me. Cross Your legs. Open your mind.
I’m going to tell you stories of a slightly silly kind.
Or lie back on the carpet, close your eyes and try to see
all the varied images that are going to be.
We’ll be crossing to another land where we can be whatever
each of us may want to be: beautiful, brave or clever.
Light the bulbs above your head. Imagine what you hear.
For the next half hour or so, you’l be “there” and not “here.”
In imagination’s magic land, all your dreams come true.
Climb aboard my story train and I’ll share it with you.
And now as then, the crowd being both clever and magnanimous,
They decided they’d all come along. The voting was unanimous.
And so the children climbed aboard to hear a tale or two—
precisely the same stories in the past that I told you.
Prompt words today are cluster, crossing, bulb, unanimous and carpet,
Early Morning Hibiscus: FOTD Mar 21, 2022
Curves
Thoughts on Mortality, 3 A.M.
Thoughts on Mortality, 3 A.M.
As my thoughts of death have become more voluminous,
idle reflections have turned much more numinous.
Vigorous fears of my shortness of breath
cause me to reflect on my upcoming death.
Derisory comments from friends that I’m fine
do nothing to quell these absurd fears of mine.
They’re turning me crotchety. Nerves are on edge.
I feel that I’m teetering close to the edge.
I’m Impervious to reason. These thoughts fill my mind
I wonder what sort of relief I could find?
My mind’s set on replay. I’m stuck in a groove
because immortality’s so hard to prove!
Prompts today are crotchety, impervious, derisory and vigorous.
