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Cormorants: Bird of the Day, July 16, 2019

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Cormorants are taking advantage of every branch of this tree that has become partially submerged in the waters of the rising Lake Chapala.

 

For:  Bird of the Day (BOTD) challenge.

Kalanchoe: Flower of the Day, July 16, 2019

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For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.

How Decent People Can Turn Into A Mob. “We Knew Nothing!”

Fatuous Flattery

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Fatuous Flattery

I knew him as a rowdy member of our town constabulary,
noted for his bumbling but not lauded for vocabulary.
So when he whispered “pulchritudinous” with raspy voice
though he could have just said, “beautiful,” I wondered at his choice.
He could have called me riveting or gorgeous or just cute.
All those other adjectives I never would refute.
But when a noted doofus picks his words from a thesaurus,
I fear it has no other kinder effect than to jar us.
The fact that he would woo me being nothing but absurd,
nonetheless he might have won me if he’d used a different word!

Words of the day are pulchritudinous, raspy, rowdy and riveting.
photo by Jordan on Unsplash. Used with permission.

 

Stages: FOTD July 15, 2019

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My hibiscus flowers are loving the rainy season. Here they are in all of their stages.

For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.

Hibiscus: Flower of the Day, July 14, 2019

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For Cee’s FOTD

Gloria’s Assignment, Day 7

Gloria has actually taken photographs for more than seven days, but I’ve neglected to post some and combine others.  Here are her most recent shots:. I’m very curious about that first shot..any ideas about how she did it? Look for her six other photo shoots in earlier blogs, including an explanation about how this assignment came about.

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Unfurling

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Gloria’s FOTD, July 12, 2019

Gloria’s continued with her daily photography assignment since she went home, so wanted to share her floral and plant offering for Cee’s Flower prompt:

 

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For Cee’s FOTD prompt.

When the U.S. Government Tried to Replace Mexican Migrant Workers with High School Students.

 

I couldn’t figure out how to embed this, but if you click on the link below, you can read about this fiasco planned in the year I graduated from high school.  How is it that I didn’t hear of it then? Lack of an internet, I suppose.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers