Category Archives: Uncategorized

“On the Beach” for RDP “Sepia” Prompt

4 Replies

This fish and the other objects in the first picture were found in exactly this position on the beach. I was fascinated by the beauty of the arrangement and the details of the fish that was not a fisherman’s catch but had obviously died either before or after it washed ashore.

(Click on first picture and then on arrows to enlarge photos and view gallery.)

 

for the RDP prompt, which is also “Sepia.”

I used these photos many years ago for a “Sepia” prompt by Cee, who inspired so many posts over the years. R.I.P. Cee!!!! I post them here in memory of her.

“Judy’s Silly Answers” For Fibbing Friday

8 Replies

Daffynitions for Fibbing Friday this week are:

1. What is an heirloom? An heirloom is device  used to weave cloth and tapestry that is inherited from a parent or grandparent.
2. What is The Big Dipper? A “Big Dipper” is that most generous employee of your favorite ice cream parlor whose line you always make sure you get into.
3. What is a titfer?  Fer feeding babies.
4. What is a mud flap? That center tongue that covers up the center gap in lace-up or buckle-up overshoes.
5. What is a barrel roll? The piece of bread that comes in the largest bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
6. Why did Polly want a cracker? She was tired of her elite northern boyfriend.
7. What is meant by ‘trip the light fantastic?’ To stick one’s foot out in front of Bobby Fulton or Tommy Rogers after their weigh-in before the fight to make the skinniest one stumble as they passed by.
8. What is a diffuser? In Mexico, it is someone who applies to the National System for Integral Family Development for aid for their family. (DIF is a Mexican public institution of social assistance that focuses on strengthening and developing the welfare of the Mexican families.)
9. What is a valet? An especially short  low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.
10. What is a noggin? It is usually located between the shoulders, but can also be located in a liquor cabinet.

Peeking Over the Wall

14 Replies

Click on Photos to Enlarge.

Looking down from the upper lot gazebo into the sculpture garden. Quetzalcoatl still in progress––being painted. Spiderwebs galore. Here are a few of them.

A Regal Final Breath, for RDP Wednesday

1 Reply

greg-daines-1376875-unsplash
Her Highness Contemplates A Seemly End

Nobility in dying is something I shan’t botch,
for I know it shall be one that the whole wide world will watch.
I cannot go by fire, for I’m sure I would be screaming
as the water quenched the fire and set my flesh to steaming.

So unseemly and so crass. I’d find it unappealing.
So, too, a rope around my neck, hanging from the ceiling.
Jumping from a roof won’t do. Nor will a gun nor pills.
Every sort of suicide just sports too many ills.

It’s clear that death by avalanche is the only one
that will really suit me when the day is done.
A certain swift clean fall of snow seems such a pristine death.
A queenly mode of dying. Such a regal final breath!

For RDP Wednesday the prompt is REGAL

Must admit that I am rerunning a poem I wrote for RDP six years ago. At that time the prompt was was “avalanche”, but as you can see, the poem works for “regal” as well!

Ohh, That’s RICH – This Commentary is as Applicable Today as It Was in August, So I’m Publishing It Again!!!

Leave a reply

I have an additional favorite political commentator who is on a par with Heather Cox Richardson. Here he is again!!! Thanks to Forgottenman for sending me this video.

 

Ollie Update––He’s Back!

28 Replies

For the first time, Ollie didn’t show up for dinner tonight. I’ve looked everywhere he could be. I don’t think he ever left my property and he is not here. His sister has been yowling for past half hour or so. I am so sad. Afraid he is gone for good. I don’t think he ever went up the hill or into the street so he must be on my property unless some wild animal or dog got him. So so sad.

This is Ollie when he first showed up at my door with his three sisters. He was runt of the litter.

Here he is with his sisters, Kukla and Fran, after they’d all been fed for a few weeks. Roo is barely on view…just her ears.

Ollie is the one in the middle–no longer runt of the litter–– and Roo is above him, Kukla in front. Fran is missing in this pic.

And….guess who just showed up an hour later? After his mom had at least 3 anxiety attacks?

WHAT A RELIEF!!!!! I SWEAR, HE HAS NEVER ONCE IN THE 8 YEARS HE’S BEEN LIVING HERE EVER MISSED A MEAL!!!!

 

Double Shadow for Squares Challenge

11 Replies

 

I lover this double shadow of the same object..Once on the wall so it looks like she is carrying the frame, the other on the frame itself which shows the head and hand of the sculpture hanging between the camera and wall.

For The Squares Challenge: Shadow

Reblog of Poem Published in 2019 Mistakenly Attributed to Dr. Seuss with Note from the Real Author

5 Replies

Screen Shot 2019-09-21 at 10.01.58 AM.png

Just today, Nov 4, 2025, I received this message from “Handy Barker” concerning this poem he wrote, which was quoted as a Dr. Seuss poem everywhere I could find it, or I would have attributed it to him. Here is the note I received from him, which I am publishing along with my apology:

Again, sorry, Handy…

Halloween, for Bushboy’s Last on the Card

3 Replies

 

 

 

For Last on the Card

One is Company, Two’s a Crowd, for SOCS

10 Replies

 

One is Company, Two’s a Crowd

I have no need for company. I’ll make it on my own.
Most anything that two can do, I can do alone.
I am no Santa Claus who needs assistance of an elf.
All tasks that need doing, I can do myself.
I never interrupt my sleep by calling on the phone.
I never argue with the choices I have made alone.
The company I give myself is by far the best.
As my best friend, I have to say I outshine all the rest!

 

The prompt for SOCS is “Company.”