A Sunset Ride with Marilyn

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Trumpeter swans
This fawn was not the least frightened by our approach.
The deer were more curious than frightened
They seemed to be watching us as closely as we watched them.
Wild turkeys roam both the range and the town.
No one knows what patriotic sould raised this flag.
Big shindig going on. We passed by but never learned what it was.

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Most of the people I know in Sheridan, Wyoming, where I go every year for medical appointments, were friends or acquaintances from the University of Wyoming, where we all went to college.  Every year for the past few years, Marilyn has taken me and a friend for a sunset drive out in the gorgeous Wyoming countryside. This year, the skies were especially colorful, thanks to huge fires burning 30 or more miles away. I wouldn’t wish those prairie fires on anyone, but they surely have made for gorgeous skies here. In addition, Marilyn knows where all the wildlife hangs out, from trumpeter swans to deer to wilk turkeys. I had to do a lot of cutting to come up with these photos which represent about a third of the photos I took.  I go home tomorrow, but have one more shoot from two days ago that I’ll try to organize when I get home.  Happy Trails!!!

“Happy Things” for SOCS, Aug 23, 2024

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Since the prompt today is “hap,” I am rerunning a blog from eight years ago on the subject of happiness. Sadly, all of the people except for one in the fifth photo have since passed away, as have two of the sweet dogs in the sixth photo. It is a reminder to gather our happiness while we may!!!

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Working in my art studio makes me happy, although I haven’t done so for almost a year.  I wonder why?  Too caught up in blogging, I fear.  I need to consider that question in the upcoming months.
IMG_5344 copyWhat I make in my studio.  “Juguetes.”
DSC05397Trees make me happy.  Especially palm trees that provide shade but don’t block the view!!!  And create a beautiful view all their own.

DSCN2469I love entertaining friends and family at my house.DSC05291(Including those who won’t let me take their pictures as well as those who do.)

IMG_3969 (1)Friends who are there to greet me every time I come home.
DSC08846And their friends, as well.
IMG_3606And, of course, blogging makes me very happy, so if you are reading this right now, you are one of the things that makes me happy, too!

For SOCS: Hap,

For Fibbing Friday, Aug 23, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday  the day’s task is: These are all legitimate medications, but how would you describe them (does not have to be medicine)?

1. Ciprofloxacin: The eighth deadly sin.

2. Domperidone: An expensive wine.

3. Idebenone: What I’d be if I’d never been born.

4. Anakinra: A 19th century tragedy by Leo Tolstoy

5. Cisplatin: Braiding my sister’s hair.

6. Pancuronium: A radioactive treatment used to cure pancreatic cancer.

7. Xgeva: What I gave my former best friend for Christmas.

8. Dihydroergotamine: Advice shouted to my friend Diane’s friend standing on the sideline during our marathon race   that I have my water but to give her more to drink!!!

9. Bloxiverz: A poem written for one’s blog.

10. Phosex: Making love long distance.

Three times Three, For Thursday Trios, Aug 22, 2024

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The chairs are the style of the chairs in the dining room of the house I grew up in. Different pattern in the seat cushions, however. The triple triangle light display (photo taken by my friend Brad) is in the house across the street from me and the three faces are friends met in the Walmart checkout line.  Three times three!

For Thursday Trios

Old-Fashioned Attention for MVB prompt, Aug 22, 2024

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Lunch Date

One thing I’d like that I will mention
is some old-fashioned attention.
The kind with no device in hand
is the kind that I can stand
better than the sort with texting—
minds caught in “before” and “next”ing—
and not a thought for whom you’re with
until I’m sure that it’s a myth
that I’m the one you want to see,
even though you have invited me.

For though our table is for two,
you bring so many more with you—
every relative and friend.
Your texts to them just never end.
Our tete a tete‘s become absurd.
I never get to speak a word!
Since I’ve discovered you’ve come to see
your smart phone as more smart than me,
there’s just one thing I’d like to state.
Please cancel our next luncheon date,
and the next time you desire a munch,
just take your iPhone out to lunch!

FOR MY VIVID BLOG PROMPT: OLD-FASHIONED

Hydrangeas for FOTD Aug 22, 2024

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We left the main road twice and circled around again to get these photos after seeing this group of flowers beside the road. The sun was livid due to fires which had leapt across two interstates and were burning vast areas between Casper and Buffalo, Wyoming. We were trying to figure out what the flowers were and closeup, decided they were hydreangeas, which I had never seen in this pointed configuration before. More photos to follow of other items of iterest nearby the flowers plus many more shots of this remarkable sunset.

For Cee’s FOTD Aug 22, 2024

“Honesty”

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Honesty

Though I always tell it if I can,
of the brutal truth, I’m not a fan.
(It’s the brutal part that bothers me,
and not the actual honesty.)
In fact, let’s institute a pact
to exercise the utmost tact.
When telling others just what “is,”
be gentle, be they Sir or Ms;
for though it’s not right to be truthless,
there’s no excuse for being ruthless.

The Writer’s Workshop prompt for Aug 22 that I chose wa the word ‘Honest.” Image by Steve Sharp on

One Perfect Rose, For FOTD, Aug 21, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD

Zinnia, for CFFC’s A Single Flower

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For CFFC

For the MVB Prompt: Discernment, Aug 20, 2024

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Discernment

Borne, then born.
Clothed, fed, shorn.
Housed and cuddled,
brain filled and muddled.
Schooled, polished, allowed to roam,
to make the world into a home.
Later settled, now sedate.
Content to let my life abate.

Find worlds inside and there abide,
to let what happens be my guide.
To try to live with less precision.
To fear less the world’s derision.
Why so hard to be oneself?
Easier when on the shelf.
Now here I pull my world around me,
memories and dreams surround me.

My solitude a crystal jar
that lets me ponder from afar
the current of my life, its tide,
to reach without and pull inside
the things that help me try to see
just where my life has taken me.
I contemplate and sometimes share
the truths that I’ve discovered there.

I’ve  come to read, to judge  and learn.
I’ve finally learned how to discern!

The MVB Prompt today is Discernment.