Abe’s Grill in Corinth, Mississippi has the most original door I’ve ever seen––and the most original menu. I’ll publish more photos later, but for now, here’s the door. (It also recently received the distinction of serving the best hamburger in Mississippi.)
(Click on first photo to see captions and enlarged photographs.)
The way to go may not be perfectly clear, but the way not to go should be!
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/21/cees-which-way-photo-challenge-september-21-2016/
With Style
Style has no age, gender or size.
Its best ingredient? Surprise.
A tilt of hat or colors bolder,
T-shirt with suit, scarf over shoulder.
Unpredictable, zany, wild
or understated, classy, mild.
Sophisticated, silly or funny,
style cannot be bought with money.
Mexico has it, and Paree.
It can be costly, but looking’s free.
These stylistas perk up our world—
hair up in caps or amply curled.
Vampish, zany or high couturier,
Life is made brighter by their display.
If our world lasts only awhile,
we might as well spend it in style!
(Click any image to convert the gallery to a larger format,wait a few seconds for them all to come into focus, then click arrows.)
The prompt word today is “Stylish.”
Purple flowers––violets, maybe.
Purple eye makes purple baby.
Purple sweater, purple wall
and four o’clocks, the last of all!
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/20/cees-fun-foto-challenge-purples/
The deer misunderstand and think these are hibiscuits, but this one has survived. Taken in my friend Allenda’s hillside stone garden in Huntsville, Alabama.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/20/flower-of-the-day-september-21-2016-dahlia/
The deer had eaten most of the flowers in my friend Allenda’s hillside gardens, but this gardenia and a few mums had escaped a place in their salad table. More flowerless photos will follow in a subsequent post.
April asked if gardenias are edible. Yes, in fact they are said to have a sweet taste when eaten raw. For a recipe for crystallized gardenia petals, go here:
http://simmerandboil.cookinglight.com/2014/10/08/edible-flowers-crystallized-gardenia-petals/
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/19/flower-of-the-day-september-20-2016-dahlia/
Silence
What lost sensations do our nightly slumbers bring?
Do colors fade out when we dream? Are scents a former thing?
Does flavor tremble on our tongues in that dreaming land?
Do we hear music in our sleep or feel a lover’s hand?
Let bright colors fill my eyes, let flavors dance my tongue,
and let all those sensations that surged when I was young
once again assault me and guide my sense of touch––
to feel all of life’s textures that once I loved so much.
There will be silence in the future when we’re in the clutch
of that which muffles music, color, flavor, touch.
So let the neighbors party on. Let thunder crash and roll.
Let ravens caw out harshly from each electric pole.
Let babies loudly protest and laughter’s raucous sound
fill my ears like cups and spill out to the ground.
I am sure that one day I will have silence enough
when my final dream guide takes me by the cuff
and leads me off to sleep a final slumber where
supposedly I’ll be removed from every worldly care—
leads me off to dreams where all sensations end
and I shed life’s cacophony as I round the bend.
The prompt word today was “Silence.”
I spotted this magnificent lone tree on the road between Morehouse, Missouri and Huntsville, Alabama.
https://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/sunday-trees-253/16
