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“Sirens” For Sunday Whirl Wordle 642, Feb 18, 2024

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Sirens

Mermaids spin their slippery thread of grass from ocean’s floor,
then string it with the beads of glass and risk their skins for more.
Surfacing to comb the beach for glass rolled  round by waves,
then sit in all their finery, enticing sailor knaves
to forfeit breath and life to brave the rocky ocean’s roar 
and creamy waves that bear them to a fatal shore.

 

Words for The Sunday Whirl Wordle are: surfacing breath slippery cream bear sit glass spin beads thread risk skins Image by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash.

Gregarious, for WWP 351

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Gregarious

That Gregory was gregarious
wasn’t a trait nefarious
but still, as he piled word on word,
his excesses seemed  most absurd,
and the fact that he was wired,
meant listeners’ interest soon expired. 
Thus, the faint-hearted
Soon departed

 

For  WWP 351 the prompt was Gregarious. The answer needs to be exactly 38 words long.

The picture is used for illustrative purposes only, although it must be noted this friend loves to talk!
No one would walk away when he does so, however.

Walnut Brown

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Trying to meet this challenge made me realize how little brown there is in my world–let alone walnut brown! I had to search through thousands of photos to find these photos that could be classified in the category of “walnut brown.”

 

For CMMC: Walnut Brown

Weather, Part 2: Hail, Hail.

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After I posted my original post, I found two other weather photos I had meant to post with it.  They are huge hailstones that fell during a July family reunion at my nephew’s house in Des Moines, Iowa.  The storm came up fast, scattering us into various shelters.

 

Originally, the photo below was the photo I thought I’d taken at that time, but checking out the dates, I discovered that I’d taken it on a beach in December.  It looks like conjoined hailstones forming the shape of a heart,  but I think that is unlikely. Any ideas of what it may be?

For Lens Artists Challenge 286

“A Change in the Weather” for Lens Artists Challenge 286

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When I was little, life seemed like one long summer day,
But now, art in the sky promises rain.
When Mount Garcia dons his sobrero, you can usually expect rain.
April rain streams out from my neighbor’s rooftop.
But a rainbow soon promises
and produces, sun
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And color vanished from the world as it was covered by snow….
as well as icicles which in the heat of the sun, melted slowly away.
Everchanging weather–either a blessing or a curse.

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And, HERE is an addition, left off this post!

For Lens Artists Challenge 286

 

Making Tracks, for CWWC Dirt Roads, Pathways, Trails, Feb 10, 2024

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Mexico, near Tapalpa
Kenya, 1967, Tsavo Game Preserve. Our bus had tipped over and thus we walked!
Mexico
Mexico, 2002
Wyoming
Italy
Prince Edward Island
Mexico
Missouri

I spent three hours tracking down dirt pathways, trails and roads in my photo files. Where they led to remains a mystery in some of the photos. Others, I have labeled.

 

For CWWC, dirt pathways or trails

Palm Fronds: FOTD Feb. 7, 2024

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Couldn’t decide which of these views I like best, so surprise! You got them both.  I like how it shows the palm in all of its stages, both growing and as construction material.

For Cee’s FOTD

Numbers Game # 7, Feb 5, 2024

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #7”  Today’s number is 128. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.

This prompt will repeat each  Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.

La Manzanilla, Feb 1 and 2, 2024

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It has been a packed two days since we arrived in La Manzanilla  around 5 PM yesterday. Music at Cocuno Bar and Restaurant on the beach, a rodeo parade, then the next day the tiangus (weekly outdoor market), a ride to Chantli Mar up the coast, back to the Crocodile bar for music and breakfast, a visit to the Manzanilla Gallery where I was able to find the talavera pottery I didn’t find at the tianguis and also so see my own work they were displaying, then an art opening at Gallery 10 and dinner.  I saw dozens of people I hadn’t seen in a year. Tomorrow, more thrills.

Traveling Lady

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Christine can’t help creating portraits even after you’ve taken her sketchbook and pens away. Even her luggage looks like it is packed up  and ready for the sun with hat and sunglasses!