These are my favorite photos from the last two weeks: Click to enlarge and see captions
Sadly, I don’t know the source of this photo shared with me by a friend, but had to share it. Please note that I did not take it. If you do, please advise so I can give them credit.
For the Lens Artists Challenge: Unique
Update: Tina Schell asked about the caterpillar, which goes through several phases before becoming a hummingbird moth. You can see several the stages in my old blog post HERE.
And HERE is another blog with even more stages of the caterpillar.
I don’t know the source of this. A friend sent it and I couldn’t resist sharing.
Sacrifice
Some people give their lives to it,
And others never do––
Conditions never calling for
Rash actions to ensue.
I’ve held onto my life because
Fate never asked me to
Immolate myself to save
Child, soldier, Jew,
Ensuring that I remain
Securely in life’s queue.
I don’t think sacrifice has been anything I’ve had to do much of in my life, short of occasionally knowingly giving someone the last pork chop or the biggest piece of cake. Perhaps this is because I had no children.
I can think of only one big potential sacrifice I made in my life and that is something I will not speak of–mainly because people it might affect are still alive. So, in lieu of writing a personal essay or poem on this topic, I invite you to read an article about the top ten most inspiring self sacrifices. You can go HERE to read it.
Click on images to enlarge.
For Cee’s FOTD
If I were marooned on an island with only three foods, what three foods would I choose?
Potatoes, Whole Milk, Oil.
What I could make from these three ingredients? Baked potatoes with butter and sour cream, French fries (alas, no ketchup), mashed potatoes with milk and butter, potato chips, scalloped potatoes, fried potatoes, VODKA!!!!!
What I’d miss most: Salt (but I figure I could obtain it from seawater), green vegetables, (Surely there are some edible greens on the island? More likely than wild potatoes.) As for meat, there must be some game on the island and fish in the ocean or lake around it.
The Prompt for My Vivid Blog is Potatoes. Can’t resist that one!
Fibbing Friday goes Shakespearean!
1. What light through yonder window breaks?
– Burglars!
2. Alas, poor Yorick………………..
– we named him poorly.
3. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
– Where did you hang the painting my folks gave us?
4. To be, or not to be…………………….
– The mental quandaries of a would-be apiarist.
5. All the World’s a stage……………………
– Personal slogan of Donald Trump.
6. All that glisters…………
– eventually tarnishes.
7. Give every man thy ear……………
– Bad advice given to Van Gogh.
8. Neither a borrower nor a lender be……
– Unfortunate slogan of a bank that went out of business.
9. Many a true word…………
– was twisted into untruth.
10. Do not swear by the moon……………..
– what in the light of day you do not intend to fulfill.
Note from ForgottenMan: Judy is almost home (bouncing in a taxi from Guadalajara to San Juan Cosala) as I prepare to post this. I sent these prompts to her this afternoon on Skype, and she nailed all 10 responses back on Skype in less than 10 minutes. I’ve transcribed them here & posted at her direction. Welcome home, Judy!
For Cee’s FOTD
Good evening, folks, ForgottenMan back again posting for Judy. She’s still at the beach (Buscerías, Nayarit) with a friend, still wrestling with internet issues. But she managed to slip me these photos via email & Skype, so I dutifully post them here for y’all to enjoy. (Y’all know you can click on a pic to see a bigger version, right?)
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