After I posted my last “bench” gallery, I admitted to Forgottenman that there were several I wanted to include that I couldn’t find. Not only did he find them in my past files, but he found a number of others as well! If you haven’t seen them yet, to see the additional photos published earlier, go HERE. To increase side of photos, click on any photo.
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Benches
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To see more benches, found after I posted this batch, go HERE.
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I have been admiring a lush vine like this one at the Chapala Society for 17 years. A few years ago, I put a few seeds from it into my pocket and scattered them in a spot where I’ve never been able to get any thing to take hold. I’d tried a grape vine to no avail, so thought perhaps these could use the dead grape vines for support. This year I noticed that they had bloomed. I took one of these photos then. Today I took it at a later stage, more fully bloomed out. For years, I’ve wondered what it was and I finally lucked out and found it on a website. It is called a Pink Coral Vine, so when I forget that at a later date and label this as a mystery flower, you can remind me!
Treasure Hunt
At Rudy’s Scrap and Salvage, you’ll find the junk of dreams.
Sewing machines with treadles and pants burst at the seams
that you can mend upon them. Dining sets with mismatched chairs.
In his clothing section, shoes seldom come in pairs.
Lovely one-eyed dollies and lop-eared careworn rabbits,
uniforms and costumes, surplices and habits.
Little pails of misplaced parts like nuts and bolts and widgets.
Chairs fit for a giant and little chairs for midgets.
Crankshafts, axles, handlebars for 50’s era Schwinns.
Housegoods by the bushel and tools by the bins.
Whoever was responsible for making all these things
would barely recognize them with their scratches and their dings.
It’s a place for dreamers, for artists or inventors—
those a few steps out of time who lack corporate mentors.
Those bent on handing back our junk with which we tried to part
as startling new inventions or else objets d’ arte.
Taking worthless bits of junk and making priceless treasures
is, I must admit, one of my most primary pleasures.
You can keep your Bergdorfs, Neiman Marcus or your Saks.
I prefer my treasures in orange crates or gunny sacks!
The prompts:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/07/26/rdp-56-salvage/
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/responsible-july-26-2018/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/07/26/fowc-with-fandango-dreamer/
I think I was 12 or 13 when this was taken, playing dress-up in my older sister’s dress!
Reflections
I do not seek out mirrors, for I don’t like what I see.
That pudgy older woman barely resembles me.
I prefer reflection of the memory kind,
rooting around within my brain to see what I can find.
Old lovers all hang out there, frozen as they were,
and when I break into their worlds, I create quite a stir,
for I am as I was as well, less inches ’round my waist,
my hair much longer and my skirt length much more to their taste.
I’m thinking just how fortunate it is that we should meet,
both of us together on this familiar street.
What are the chances we’d be here at the selfsame time––
drawn in from our different lives to join here in this rhyme?
Then of course I realize it is by my orchestration
rather than a miracle of synchronization.
At first, our talk is shallow, our conversation bland.
What causes a big flurry is when he takes my hand.
It’s then that I remember what it is I miss.
It’s not the conversation, but rather it’s that kiss
that sent my senses spinning off to some future land
where I imagined he would ask my father for my hand.
But when that event came for real, that time for plans and rings,
I found my mind was turning to many other things.
College and then travel to many foreign strands—
things that wouldn’t happen if we wore wedding bands.
So we parted directions—off to different lives,
adventures with different spouses, children with different wives.
Building separate futures that led us both to this:
to fifty years thereafter and that same remembered kiss!
Written for these three prompts:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/rdp-54-reflection/
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/fortunate-july-25-2018/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/07/25/fowc-with-fandango-shallow/
From Giant Rubber Duckies and dolphins to drones. From big cars to toy trucks, boats to front-end loaders, horses to wings, everything in the world has a way to move itself around.
For the Wit’s End Challenge: Transportation.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/rdp-55-travel/
Yolanda and Pasiano assembling my new desk chair. Just a glimpse of Morrie supervising.
In regards to puzzles, what’s your choice: jigsaw, crossword, word search, mazes, logic or numeric puzzles, something else, or nothing?
I love doing jigsaw puzzles with my sister and brother-in-law at Xmas. Visiting friends usually get sucked into the addiction as well. This was a tradition between my sister and me when we were growing up. I also love logic problems and crossword puzzles. Writing rhymed and metered poetry is definitely a puzzle as well and actually my favorite.
List at least five favorite treats and it doesn’t necessarily have to be food.
Movies, Spider Solitaire, Thai Food, Ice Cream, Road Trips, Mexican Train.
What is your favorite type of dog? (can be anything from a specific breed, a stuffed animal or character in a movie)
I love little dogs but with two exceptions seem to have always had bigger ones. I’ve always had dogs that just showed up and adopted me so I’ve never had much of a choice. I have a black Lab mix and a Scottie now. They are both pretty cool.
What did you appreciate or what made you smile this past week? Feel free to use a quote, a photo, a story, or even a combination.
The young cats have been spending a good deal of time inside, and always manage to fall into classic cat poses:
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For Cee’s Share Your World Challenge, July 23, 2018
