Superstition is our insistence that the world pays attention to our actions.
Bad luck is the world answering, “You are wrong!”
(The prompt today was “Superstition.” I kept it short and sweet for once–for Ann and Audrey!)
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These anthuriums I found in the Cafetto Saga entrance seem like the gnomes of anthuriums–suitable for a coffee shop that sports fairies in its decor. It is where we have been holding the girls’ dance lessons–which last night officially turned into a girls’ yoga class. I’ll post pictures later. In the meantime, I was fascinated by these warty renditions of one of my favorite flowers. Some parasite, no doubt, but what Hobbitish beauty they have brought to this plant.
http://ceenphotography.com/2016/04/06/flower-of-the-day-april-7-2016-dahlia/
I love the different levels of reality this photo seems to reveal. The clarity and brilliant colors of the fish nearer the surface are echoed by the dream fish farther below. Then that ultimate reality––the clouded sky––reflected in the water, as well as the trees. Even the shadow in the water of the gargoyle of a nearby building as well as this picture itself reflect man’s desire to become godlike by creating beauty in imitation of nature. We are all part of one big circle and for me this photo reveals that truth.
I’m honored to have been invited by master photographer Cee from ceenphotography.com to participate in a challenge called Seven Day Nature Photo Challenge. (Check out Cee’s nature photos as well as her thousands of other wonderful photographs by clicking on the ceenphotography link above.
As part of this challenge, I am to post one nature photograph a day for one week and to ask one other person to join the challenge each day. Today I ask you to check out the excellent and varied photography of S.M Kelly , whom I have asked to play along. Go here to do so: http://smkelly8.com/
Triple Tricky
Who knows what each new day will bring?
Three dogs wiggling outside my door–
my feeding them, them wanting more.
The world reaches out for me and more.
Those worlds imagination brings
come whining louder at my door.
Now and always at time’s door
I offer words and ask for more
than what, I know, the years will bring.
Agape once more, that final door brings me at last to face my fears.
I bring myself to cross its sill, still hoping there will be some more.
The WordPress prompt is “Tricky” and and NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a tritina–a poetic form that involves three three-line stanzas and a final concluding line. Three “end words” are used to conclude the lines of each stanza, in a set pattern of ABC, CAB, BCA, and all three end words appear together in the final line. I cheated and used two concluding lines instead of one. This poem meets both prompts. Tricky.
http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seven-3/
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/tricky/
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Okay, hold the show! It is 11:33 p.m. two nights after I took the picture of little silvertoad and I just went out and he is still there! Just moved a few inches. I had to take photos. The one that isn’t a closeup will show how small he is.
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/04/06/color-your-world-silver/
The “Freeways” of Mexico are anything but free. Yes, there are free roads, but they are generally twisty, two-lane and frequently not too safe. In Mexico, what we think of as freeways are actually toll (or cuota – pronounced “quota”) roads. They are not cheap, but they are multi-laned, divided, well-maintained and generally safe, although this trip presented one unique potential danger not often found in the U.S. unless you happen to live in the northwest.
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http://ceenphotography.com/2016/04/05/cees-fun-foto-challenge-freeways-expressways-highways/
I promised Calen Sariel that I would show more of the Wandering Jew plant when I showed a closeup of the bloom a few weeks ago, so here it is, Calen, along with my yearly pineapple that I await with great trepidation, lest some animal or visitor make off with it. These are always the sweetest pineapples I’ve ever tasted, and Pasiano and Yolanda and I make a ceremony out of tasting it when the final sacrifice is made and we harvest it! (Yes, I realize a pineapple is a fruit, not a flower, but the Wandering Jew is and its inclusion in the posting makes this official!)
http://ceenphotography.com/2016/04/05/flower-of-the-day-april-6-2016-tulips/
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http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/04/05/color-your-world-shocking-pink/
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Sun or moon and smooth or rough,
old or young and clothed or buff––
opposites contrast each other––
tough or easy, breathe or smother.
Shadows can be made with light,
though sun is opposite of night.
Sarcasm depends on this:
words that praise, but really diss.
Life consists of contrasts that
give yin for yang and tit for tat.
If you can’t find a life to fit,
just change into its opposite!
Reach for the hidden, release the found.
Contrasts make the world go round.
