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Favorite Photos–Flunking the Prompt.

Okay, this is impossible. I tried to answer the LAPC #268 Challenge, to publish my ten favorite photos and to say why they are my favorites,  but  I just got through the first 2,000 of the 149,000 photos in my photo file and I already have 35 even after culling out a dozen or so.

Click on photos to enlarge and to learn why I chose these photos.

There is no way I can go through the whole file, so I’m going to go with these and have you suggest which ones to cull to get it down to ten. Then, someone will have to direct me to the correct link for as much as I enjoyed Patti Moed’s blog which did follow the prompt beautifully, she did not give a link to the original prompt and I could not find it. So, those are my two excuses and I’m sticking to them. If you can suggest cuts and direct me to the correct prompt site, I’ll try again!!!

Night Shots

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Taken from my pool from 10:26 to 10:49 PM on September 21, 2023.

 

For Thursday Tree Love

 

Crass Definitions for Fibbing Friday Sept 22, 2023

Here is Pensitivity’s task for us this Friday:
You may or not remember these popular movies, be they the originals or remakes, but what do you think they could have been about?

1. The Parent Trap: How my parents might have felt after the birth of their third child
2. The Incredible Journey: That first trip all on your own as a toddler when you slipped out of the bathtub when Mom’s back was turned and ran down the block to your Aunt Mabel’s house at the other end of the block stark naked! (True story)
3. Aladdin: A euphemistic description of a girl’s first sexual encounter.
4. Mission Impossible: The first time you had to parallel park for a driving test.
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: What your next door neighbor shouted over the back fence the day the you scrambled to retrieve the pages of your manuscript the wind had ripped out of your fingers and blown away. 
6. The Wind in the Willows: When you slip out of the dinner party into the garden to fart. (Sorry for the indelicacy. I know no euphemism.)
7. Underworld: The real you under the girdle, the waist cincher or in the modern world, beneath the Spanx.
8. Legally Blonde: The results after you actually buy your hair coloring in the drug store instead of shoplifting it
9. The Terminator: Papa, when he flips the  front porch lights off and on at ten o’clock during date night’s goodnight kiss
10. The Love Bug:  Crabs

For Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday

Purdy pitchers for FOTD

Put purdy pitcher hear.

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Although I know the name of this flower, I can’t for the life of me remember it and the plant identifier refuses to name it, too.  Someone help. A friend with a sense of humor set this up for me because he knew I’ve been crazy busy and didn’t have time to post it. The title and instructions are his!!! The flowers, however, whatever they are called, are my addition. 

(They may be  copa de oros (as not all copa de oros are gold, in spite of their name.) But, I’ve never noticed that little white flower like the center of a bougainvillea in the center of a copa de oro.)

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Way Down Low (For the Cosmic Photo Challenge)

For the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Low Elevation

Triangulation

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I had trouble finding triangles in my photo files so decided to go on a triangle hunt around my house. This is the result for RDP Friday: Triangle

Back-fence Whispers: For Wordle 619

Back-fence Whispers

Since I heard the rumors that my love is leaving,
unproven fears extend their claws and set my heart to grieving.
Still fluid memories of our love rush in to calm my mind,
shoring up belief that he’s not the roaming kind.

Still, those hurtful whispers breathed behind cupped hands
warn me that he’ll soon be off to foreign lands.
Thus, I sit and worry about what the truth may be.
Which love has he chosen? Is it the world or me?

 

The words today are hurt heard whispers since roams clawing rush still fluid grieving shore breathe  : for the Sunday Whirl  Wordle 619  Image by Ben White on Unsplash.

Twilight Zone!!!

So weird!!! I have not heard one cohete (bottle rocket) or seen one firework in three days and it is Independencia! There should have been hundreds of explosions by now.  I’ve never known a day without at least one and usually they would have been happening for days before September 16.  Nor did I hear any church bells this morning. What is going on?

Bougainvillea, For FOTD Sept 16, 2023

For Cee’s FOTD

Crown of Thorns for Cee’s FOTD

 

For Cee’s FOTD