Above is a link to the article just published today in the Ojo del Lago that I wrote about my friend Gloria who passed away in August. Earlier, I published photos of her HERE.
Memories of Gloria
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Crocheted Critter-Crazed!!
I’ve shown earlier crocheted animals and dolls that I’ve purchased from a young woman in the local street market who crochets them all from her own head–no patterns–and each is unique. I think they are fabulous and so moderately priced that I can’t resist. I’ve bought ten of them so far! I bought these three today and will give one to Yoli for school and keep the other two for friends who have babies or grandchildren. Unfortunately, Zoe got to them and had two on the floor. One was missing. I searched all over the house for it and finally found the doggie behind the bed with one ear missing!! A lengthy search turned up the ear. I’ll be able to sew it on again, but still. She is such a traviesa!!!!
I thought the one with legs holding school supplies was an octopus, but she insisted it was a dinosaur. Cute idea, though. All three of these together cost the equivalent of $37.11 U.S. Amazing.
Here is a link to most of the others I bought before: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2021/12/16/december-leftovers-lens-artists-challenge-178-our-choice-of-themes/
Last on the Card: Can You Tell What It Is?
This is the last photo on my phone, dated August 31. You guess what it is
and I’ll tell you what it is after 5 guesses. Perhaps it is obvious.
For Bushboy’s Last on the Card prompt
Resolution
Resolution
She refused to remain the underdog, tethered to her stanchion.
She’d trade her present hovel for a stately mansion.
She’d update all her fashions and tone her waist and thighs,
exercise with vigor to decrease her zaftig size.
She’d become more vivacious, more up on all the news.
She’d practice stealth and cunning in interpreting the clues
of what it took to rise up in the elite scene,
responsive to what it might take to be a social queen.
But alas, it never happened, for to her great sorrow,
she kept putting self-improvement off until tomorrow.
Prompt words today are mansion, update, responsive, stealth, vivacious and underdog.
Favorite Finds
Black onyx and white enamel pin found in my grandmother’s drawer and given to me by her, along with assorted finds..collected to be assembled into a retablo
Beautiful face superimposed upon a beautiful face.
Sacrificial blood cup Found on the shores of Lake Chapala
1 1/2 ” round stone formed by the wave action in Lake Michigan. Found in a little stand by the side of the road
Bird carved from a cow horn found in an art market in Havana, Cuba.
Large replica of a PreColumbian piece found in Chapala, Mexico
Basket found on Lombok Island. basket woven from a local woman, basket base and figures on top carved and painted by her husband.
More of the same.
Bird formed from palm branch found in La Ribera, Baja California. Formed by a friend out of fronds taken from her palapa roof as they created a new one
Huge Bobo ceremonial mask found in my front driveway when African friends set up a show there. One of the few things I brought with me to Mexico. 74 inches high.
Click on photos to enlarge.
For the Favorite Finds Prompt
Footsies
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It all started out innocently enough with my Skyping Forgottenman a photo of my feet along with a message that said, “Why do I like taking photos of feet so much?” He answered with “Yeah, me and a bunch of yer fam & friends have been talking about that. We’re planning a Zoom intervention.” I then sent him more feet photos and he sent me more feet photos I’d published here on my blog, and this is the result. How about it? Wanna show me your feet???
Love Lost, Love Gained
“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part.”
Love Lost, Love Gained
Since my true love just up and left,
there’s no relief. I am bereft.
No matter how much I expound,
help is nowhere to be found.
Come, wipe the memory of his face.
Let, then, a new love take its place.
“Us” bleached out from my memory,
kiss wiped so a new kiss may be,
and so forsake this moan and vetting.
Part of love lies in forgetting.
For the dVerse Poets prompt, we were to take one of the given lines and to make a poem of it, using each word of the line, in order, as the the beginning word in each line of our poem. The the line I chose precedes the poem: “Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part.”
For dVerse Poets
To see other poems written to this prompt, go HERE.
2022 Fashion
2022 Fashion
There is a dearth of luxury in fashions of today.
All the garments made of fur have been tucked away.
Zibelline and beaver, chinchilla, mink and fox
hide in the back of closets or in the remnants box.
The most ardent fashionista wears clothes shapeless as kelp.
Shoulder pads and belts and pads do not seem to help.
They walk runways like branches stripped down to their bark:
minimal and twiggy, sparse and wan and stark.
Lace and ruffles banished, hot Goth is all the rage.
Tractor Trek-Sole boots and chunky loafers stalk the stage.
Sweater vests and crop-tops, shabby chic and Y2K
have replaced silks and satins, mohair and chambray.
Power Bohemian florals compete with color clashing
For what the trend-setters of the day find most chic and dashing.
The only good that I can see in these current fashion rages
is that fewer animals are being kept in cages!
Prompt words for today are kelp, ardent, branch, dearth, zibelline, shapeless.
Mid-night Still Life
Taken a few nights ago during a very late-night swim. Dark and overcast, no stars, steaming water in the pool. A moody scene.
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