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Animal Pot Pourri: A Photo a Week Challenge
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Geranium: FOTD Dec 31, 2021
Yuletide Miracle # 1, Dec 30. 2021
Miracle #1, Dec 30, 2021: Diego slipped into the house and did not eat these
four raw cookies that I set out on the counter on their way to the oven.
(I didn’t start counting miracles until today thus the rather late #1. Next year, someone remind me to do this from the day after Thanksgiving through Tres Reyes on Jan. 6. (Not every day. Just when and if miracles occur.)
Shattered Illusions: FOTD, Dec 30, 2021
In 35 years of growing bougainvillea, I have never seen the central flower bloomed out like this!
Here is how they usually look:
But, oops. I suddenly had a brainstorm and went outside to check again, and guess what? When I moved the bougainvillea branch aside, this is what I discovered:
That bloom was actually the bloom of this tiny succulent peeking through the bougainvillea. Another of life’s illusions shattered!
For Cee’s FOTD
They’ll Be Sorry!!!
They’ll Be Sorry!!!
She’s stuffing Mommy’s reticule with necessary stuff,
putting on her bunny coat and leaving in a huff.
All the sundry items contribute to its thickness—
pajamas for her dolly and candy pills for sickness.
She’s packed her favorite nightie and her dolly and her bear,
a pair of extra panties and a hairbrush for her hair.
She grabs a sun umbrella as she passes by the rack,
squishes up her raincoat and stuffs it in her sack.
So now she’s set for sun or rain as she sets off to roam.
She’ll make her parents sorry when she runs away from home!
The hall clock ticks its countdown as she sets off on her lark.
She’ll have to run away right now to be back before dark.
Prompt words are reticule, sundry, countdown, cohere and sickness.
Image by Zahra Amiri on Unsplash
Through the Window
Before the rain
Rainy day
From the plane window
For Monday Windows
Thursday Trios, Dec 30, 2021
New Year Resolutions
New Year Resolutions
When the new year zaps us with our last year’s reflection,
it brings up all our defects and flaws for our detection.
It goads us to be better and to bend our crooked way
to plot a straighter game in life than we’ve been prone to play.
It’s January 1st that prods our consciences to make them,
giving us a whole long year in which to go and break them.
Word prompts are zap, play, reflection, goad and bend. Image, Kate Hliznitsova on Unsplash.
