I received this challenge from my friend Alex Solomon. “Seven days. Seven black and white photos of your life. No people. No explanation. Challenge someone new each day.” Today I challenge Ann Garcia.
Seven Day Challenge, Day 6
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Midnight Hibiscus: Flower of the Day, Oct 5, 2017
I went out at midnight to get something from the car and saw two new hibiscus glowing in the light from beside the door. Of course, I had to capture them, which brought the cats streaming down from the garage. Tricky getting in and out to get the camera as they are wonderful little escape artists, with two or three distracting me while the other two or three slip into the house. Then I had the camera on the wrong setting, so after spending a half hour trying to work with the photos, it finally occurred to me I could go back out with a flashlight to capture better color. In the end, however, once on the correct setting, I could use available light. Then had to narrow the choices down. This beauty was the winner.
Self Denial
Self Denial
The mirror that’s in front of me shows very little gut,
and when I look behind me, I can’t even find my butt.
It’s true I am so lithe and slim that I can’t cease my looking,
for self-admiration has replaced the fun of cooking.
Gazing deeply at myself—my mesmerising eyes—
has replaced my fascination with cookies and with pies.
Time spent in the past communing with burgers and fries,
now is spent perusing my waistline and my thighs.
If you want to ask me out to pizza or to pie it,
I cannot follow either plan, in fact I must decry it.
I could not even get a date before this year-long diet,
so if it involves calories, I fear I must deny it.
It’s not that I’m objecting to a bit of her and himming.
It’s just that I prefer activity that is more slimming.
A jog perhaps or calisthenics in the local gym—
something that will keep us both toned and tight and trim?
And afterwards if you should ask me in to have a drink,
the reason that I turn you down is not what you may think.
It’s true that since my bod is fit, I don’t want to abuse it.
The problem is that I’m too tired to ever get to use it!
The prompt word was deny. This is a rewrite of a poem written two years ago. The illustration is from the Internet.
Bougainvillea: Flower of the Day, Oct 4, 2017
Snail with Pillbug: Seven Day Challenge, Day 5
I received this challenge from my friend Alex Solomon. “Seven days. Seven black and white photos of your life. No people. No explanation. Challenge someone new each day.” Today I challenge Cee.
Cracking Up: Tuesdays of Texture, Oct 3, 2017
Seven Day Challenge, Day 4
I received this challenge from my friend Alex Solomon. Okay, girl, here goes. Hard for me to post with no words, but. . . . .“Seven days. Seven black and white photos of your life. No people. No explanation. Challenge someone new each day.” Today I challenge Jerry Baldwin.
G is for Gatos
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Now that she’s gone, perhaps I can do a little sleuthing.
Yup. Hamburger. Wonder if she left any further evidence?
Nothing here.
Nope, nothing here to eat, er, see, Ollie.
Okay, check for yoursellf.
Wonder what she had to say about us today?
Nothing slanderous, I guess.
If you’re finished over there, Ollie, no need to come over here.
Out here is where she keeps the dogs, but no fun baiting them today. They must be sleeping.
Guess I’ll just hang out here and wait for her to get home. G-day, Ollie.
Baby Sun Rose: Flower of the Day, Oct 3, 2017
These little succulent flowers are tiny, so it is easy to overlook them.
Here’s Cee’s saucy little number for the day.
The Sporting Life
The Sporting Life
I’ve never had much interest in sports played with a ball.
Of games with pucks or shuttlecocks, I have no need at all.
Gym workouts, laps and chin-ups do nothing for me.
I simply have no talent for touching chin to knee.
The body part I work out with is of a different kind.
I like the sort of games requiring exercise of mind.
Dominoes or Mastermind, Bridge or Chess or Scrabble
are aspects of the sporting life discounted by the rabble.
Yet if you want to hold my interest, team sport is absurd.
Just woo me with a domino, a die, a card, a word.
Lay your mind upon the table, dear, I’ll trump it with an ace.
The contact I like in a sport is merely face-to-face.
The prompt word today was interest.
The Guardian: A judicial review this week will decide whether it was right for Sport England to have ruled that the card game is not a sport. … “Europe has said [sport has] to be physical, but the International Olympic Committee is prepared to include mind sports. … The IOC, for instance, recognises chess and bridge as sports – the respective federations have applied for them both to be included in the 2020 Olympics;
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/shortcuts/2015/sep/22/a-bridge-too-far-card-game-considered-a-sport
