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My World

This is what Cee wanted to know this week:

If you were to pack a basket for picnic lunch, what would be in your basket?

In my picnic basket? Egg salad and ice cream
and one thousand ants, invading in a stream!

On a vacation what you would require in any place that you sleep?

When I lay me down to sleep,
I require a silence deep,
covers warm and soft and clean,
freshly washed in a machine.
But mostly, where I lay my head,
I pray, no bedbugs in my bed!

If you were to buy a new house/apartment what is the top three items on your wish list?

A bathroom for each bedroom, and bedrooms? At least two.
A kitchen with much storage, complete with maid would do,
A porch swing or two rocking chairs—a terrace with a view.
And interesting neighbors to enrich each day anew.

 

What did you appreciate or what made you smile this past week?  

My friend sent me a devil duck, as you can plainly see.
I put it in the pool to keep me company.
This cafe dessert was so-so, but Terry made a flan
that was so delicious, I had to lick the pan!
The showing by my friends was great. I always like their art,
but this brand new baby also won my heart.
Two cats no longer kittens, now  just barely fit
on cushions where all four once lay, but they do not know it!

 

 

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For Cee’s Share Your World prompt.

Backstage at the Hibiscus: Flower of the Day, May 30, 2018

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See Cee’s gorgeous May 30 peony here: https://ceenphotography.com/2018/05/29/flower-of-the-day-may-30-2018-peony/

New Skin for the Old Ceremony

Couldn’t let this “Ceremony” prompt go by without posting a song from one of my favorite Leonard Cohen albums.  The entire album is available on YouTube. This song is a live version of “Chelsea Hotel #2.” If you haven’t read the poem I wrote for this prompt, you can find it HERE.

Pink Hibiscus: Flower of the day, May 28, 2018

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Click on photo to enlarge. jdb photo, LCS Grounds, May 2018

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Twisted

 

 

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For the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Twisted

Beauty in Ruins: May 27, 2018

 

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Man and nature conspire to create collages making use of these old buildings in the pueblo just below my house. I am mystified about what the other end of the noose seen in the first photo is attached to. I had to include the paint-splattered paving stones from Ajijic as well as it suited the theme.

 

For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge

Trees as Canvas, May 27, 2018

 

I think the Children from the nearby Lake Chapala Society Children’s Saturday Art Class have been spending some time in the shade of these trees lately. (Click on any tree to increase size of photos.)

 

 

For Becca’s Sunday Trees prompt.

Iris, Flower of the Day, May 27, 2018

IMG_9363This flower is from the Lake Chapala Society garden.

 

For Cee’s Flower of the Day challenge.

 

Doppelganger Disclaimer

 

“Double Identity” Retablo by Judy Dykstra-Brown. Click on any photo to enlarge all.

Doppelganger Disclaimer

I do not have a doppelganger. There’s no evil twin
wandering around within the world I’m in.
So any malfeasance—any scrape or sin
that has occurred in any place where I might have been
please attribute just to me. I will take all the blame.
Blaming a doppelganger would be to share my fame.
Sometimes I am a stinker, but at other times most jolly.
I’m responsible for all of me—both bravery and folly.
As a denizen of this fair world, until I pull up stakes,
I think it’s only fair that I claim my own mistakes!

 

The prompt word today is doppelganger.

Hibiscus: Flower of the Day, May 26, 2018

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For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.