On my way down to the little market just at the bottom of the hill, I couldn’t help backing up to snap this shot!!!
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Flying South out of San Francisco, For Cellpic Sunday
Buri Buri park
San Bruno
San Bruno
Los Gatos
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I always request a window seat for this reason!
For Cellpic Sunday
Ollie and Friends: For Whatsoever is Lovely, Week 6, 2024
Olie was lonely so he sneaked into the house to cuddle up to his friends!
For the Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge
Things Money Can’t Buy? Friends!
Persistent and delightful new friends.
Funny friends who are both at and on your side
Birdy friends….
Doggie friends…
Two of Zoe’s best friends seem pretty fond of each other as well.
Singapore Tiger Balm Gardens with silly friends.
Creative friends
Friends you can make beautiful music with…
Friends as messy as you are.
Everyone needs a friend to be silly with.
Friends to share a meal with…
And friends who won’t leave your side, no matter what.
Lullaby and Good Night
I’m lying flat on my back in bed with my computer on my stomach between us, so couldn’t see this little girl but could feel her using the space between my legs as a cradle. So comfy!!!! I held the phone up in the air over the open computer to catch this shot. She looks pretty comfy. No fear she’ll roll over in her sleep by mistake with my legs as a snug frame.
I actually do sing her lullabies to calm her down. Usually in the car. I sing one my dad used to sing full voice to his first grandchild. “Oh Cindy play the big bass drum, BOOM,BOOM,BOOM! Her (sic) say “I hope that the war won’t come, BOOM,BOOM,BOOM! Now I’m not frightened as you may understand, but if I’m called to fight for my land, I wanna be able to play in the band. BOOM,BOOM,BOOM!”
I sing it with “Zoe” substituted for “Cindy” and VERY LOUD as he did to still her cries and it works with little girl dogs as it did with a little girl baby, but even though the windows are rolled up tight, I’m sure it can be heard from outside and I wonder what passersby are thinking. Sometimes I switch to “Rockabye Zoe up in the treetops” at a lower volume when I have to stop at lights.
Meeting Up
Mykonos
Mykonos
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Mykonos is a city of light and wind. Citizens are required to whitewash their houses three times a year and color police enforce the color restrictions. Narrow winding streets were a deterrent to marauding pirates and they did a good job of deterring me as well. We were perpetually lost. The wrapped pipes (white, of course) reminded me of African masks. It was obvious to us all why Mykonos is noted for its windmills, as constant gusty winds helped to cool down the otherwise hot day. Shopping galore, but I resisted the $1500 blouse and instead photographed the resident reigning cat in her royal wicker chair. No dogs were in evidence, but this black cat welcomed us to shore from her comfortable spot under the shade of a concrete bench. A lovely end to our last day of the cruise. Tomorrow we arise at 6 to go to Athens to catch our separate planes to Chicago. We overnight there and then I head back to Guadalajara, my sister back to Sheridan.
Unlikely Pairing
Unlikely Pairing
One ungainly orphan elephant, wandering and uncertain
of where his journey’s leading him, comes upon a curtain
of mist that rises from the plain, shimmering, evanescent.
The stars now muted overhead, the moon a fuzzy crescent.
He splits the curtain, comes upon a lone and lost impala
split off from the herd during some wild stampeding gala.
They form a duo and plod on, each looking for a herd.
Such an unlikely couple. Impossibly absurd.
And yet they struck a certain chord, each one with the other.
She was the sister that he lacked, and he her missing brother.
One thing led to another. She fit him like a glove,
and before they knew it, the two were fast in love.
When the baby came, it looked a bit like a nyala,
a bit like a rhinoceros––an elephantiala!!
Prompts today are intent, orphan, elephant (good grief) and evanescent. Add this one, too: curtain.
Just Duckie: Bird of the Day, Aug 3, 2019
Dux was disappointed in my choice of birds yesterday, so here is a Duck all for him..well, and the rest of you, too.
For Granny’s Bird of the Day prompt.
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