Assisted by my friend Becky McGuigan (Thanks, Beck) I did two projects with the kids: egg carton flowers and jewelry. Last week we did necklaces and bracelets. This week we’ll do bracelets and earrings. A photo in my FOTD post for Aug 12 showed one of the flowers. Here are a few photos of the jewelry and also a photography project that my friend Bethany did with the kids. They each went home with a book of their photos. One more day of camp tomorrow! I’ll try to get more pix this time.
I was so busy during art camp that this was the only photo I was able to take!! This is one young man’s egg carton flower. Very colorful! The plate is not part of the flower, by the way. Just something to carry it home on.
For Cee’s FOTD
Reader’s Choice. Do you have a question you’d like to ask me or is there a topic you’d like to suggest? If so, please let me know and I’ll pick one suggestion a week to write about. Sorta setting up my own little personal prompt site, but others are welcome to write a post from the prompts as well and to link them as comments on my week’s post whenever they wish. Let’s see if this works. What do you want to hear me blather on about or to write a poem or song about? Reader’s Choice!!!! Please note that I won’t be making up prompts myself. I will, however, be publishing all the comments and all of the suggestions and if anyone else wants to write on one of the topics and post a link to comments, that will be most welcome. See? I repeated that invitation twice!
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I somehow published an old prompt for Ragtag in my poem today, so here is a photo response to today’s correct prompt: https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/rdp-saturday-bubbles/
Belvedere
Strolling through the belvedere at sunset, just with you,
I pretended that I’d brought you here for the uncanny view.
Yet I really formed a rapt audience of one.
You are the only view I seek when the day is done.
I’m just your part time lover, and yet I must confess
that when I see your line of jaw, your hair braid or your dress,
it catapults my heart into regions that are new.
I’d like to make a wallpaper of visions just of you
so that all the whole day long, whatever I might do,
I could live forever surrounded by your view.
Prompt words today are part time, Belvedere, catapult, wallpaper, audience and uncanny.
War Lords
Need I be explicit in describing wars of yore?
Any valiant action may be the stuff of lore.
Warriors turned to veterans relate their tales of glory,
the motives of those men who start them are more base and gory.
The noble causes they purport to be their reasons for them,
carved in stone and writ in books that seem to all adore them,
are often myth, for wars are fought for power and for gold
that seldom is passed down to warriors who are brave and bold.
Possessions, land and castles are the bijoux of the rich
who start the wars that poor men fight for in the ditch.
No electricity today so this poem written by flashlight and recorded via hotspot on my phone and posted.
Prompt words today are carved, explicit, bijoux (jewelry or trinket), purport, veteran and warrior. Image by jdb. See more about this image HERE.
If I had to look back through all the photos I’ve taken this year, it would take hours, so I’ve chosen to present four of my favorites from this month. Help me decide which one to cut, please. This prompt limits me to three. I’m decisioned out so I’m relying on you to help me pick the best three.
favorite views from the past month. For: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/lens-artists-challenge-picking-favourites/
For all of those of you suffering from drought or fire, I offer proof of rain and hope it soon appears in your life.
Seduction
The canvas is my suitor. It holds me in its sway,
seduces me with reaching arms that draw my brush its way.
I paint upon its surface and in turn it draws me out.
All those pains I hide inside on canvas learn to shout.
It stands mostly unnoticed when others are around,
attracting no attention and making not a sound,
but when alone, it prompts me to bare my soul to it,
and all the angst that crowds my mind finds a place to fit.
Written for this prompt: https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2022/08/01/what-do-you-see-145-august-1-2022/ Image by Marti Alonso @ Unsplash
