Aretes? Flower for FOTD, July 9, 2024

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The plant identifier calls this a Clerodendrum × speciosum W.Bull, but Yolanda calls it an Aretes, which translates as an earring plant. I think she is confusing it with a bleeding heart, which is called an Aretes or Earring Plant in Mexico but is much fancier. So, for now, I still don’t know the common name of this beautiful vine!!! Can anyone help? I have searched so many times and don’t think it is really an Aretes. In another place, it is identified as a native of Sri Lanka but given no common name…On with the search. Okay..bingo! Finally found it identified as the Java Glory Vine or Red Bleeding Heart Vine. It isn’t as showy as what I’ve always knows as a bleeding heart, but I like it better..So, since bleeding hearts of the showier variety are known as aretes or earring plants, I guess I’ll judge Yolanda as correct and go on calling it that. Search over and identified unless proven wrong.

For Cee’s FOTD

A Fan of Eudora Welty!! For Cellpic Sunday, July 7, 2024

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(Pun intended.) One of my favorite stops in Jackson, Mississippi was Eudora Welty’s house…now a museum. Here hanging upside down from its handle with other fans on my curtain rod in my room is a fan I bought there.

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Here’s a closeup.
And here is is right side up.

Her house seemed to be left just as it was when she passed away. On the dining room table were pages of a manuscript cut into strips and pinned to the tablecloth… like  this was her method of seeing the segments together and reorganizing and editing them. I loved this!!! All of the awards and trophies she had won over the years were tucked away in her clothes closet out of sight to anyone but her. I love her stories and I think I would have loved her.

For Jonbo’s Cellpic Sunday
But, well, I guess I have to link to this prompt at well: A Fan Of

The Numbers Game # 29, July 8, 2024––Come play along!!!

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June, 2014 Mixed Media painting by JDB
Betsy Wetsy
Tapalpa
Peru
1956, Johnssen’s Dam
Because it reminds me why I couldn’t resist bringing her home from the beachside restaurant where she first curled up on my lap and won my heart.

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #29”  Today’s number is 150. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.

This prompt will repeat each  Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.

Another Day, Another Hibiscus, for FOTD July 8, 2024

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See Cee’s fabulous peony HERE.

Still Life with Flowers and Cat, For FOTD, July 7, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD

“The Approach” For the Sunday Whirl Wordle, 662

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the pink clouds,
Clouds above
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The Approach

The edges of my wishes wrap around my mind
over expectations of another kind
curling over “To Do” lists, jerking at their edges,
causing piled paper work to fall off bookshelf ledges,
breathing life into that void—that gap left in the middle
of all those daily tiresome tasks to leave some room to fiddle.
To look at curling banks of clouds that sail across a sky
so vast that I can’t count them, so I don’t even try.

Everything in life need not be a tiresome task.
Every day presents a time when I take time to bask
for at least a moment, or ten or twenty more,
in other natural treasures that lie outside my door.
Life seems to be speeding by, rushing toward its brink—
once stretched out before me, but soon over in a blink.
Ever conscious of those acts that I will leave behind me,
I wonder what life choices in the end will have defined me.

 

For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 662 the words are: jerk void breath gap vast blinked curling sky wish wrap edge ever

“I Really Want a Puppy” Brand New Book Hot off the Presses!!!

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Click HERE to order my newest children’s book I Really Want a Puppy that has a QR Code that sings the words of the entire book as you turn the pages to look at the photos!!

What’s a boy to do when all his friends have puppies but he doesn’t? This book’s hero finds a novel way to get around his mom’s reluctance to adopt a dog. This is the third rhymed picture book written by Judy Dykstra-Brown and beautifully illustrated by Isidro Xilonzóchitl, but this one not only tells and shows you the story, it also sings the words of the book to the reader by means of a QR code on the front cover! Drum beats indicate to nonreaders when it’s time to turn the page to see the next illustration. Younger kids love to “learn to read” by singing along with the words to the song while following the words in the book. Older kids just love the story and illustrations.

Use your cellphone to take a photo of the  QR code above on the cover to hear the entire book. (It takes you to Youtube and then you need to click to turn the sound on.)

Click HERE to see sample pages and to order.  Just $15 during an introductory period and please remember to leave your review on the site and to let me know how you like it as well.

(In Mexico, available from the author  at jubob2@hotmail.com or at Diane Pearl’s Gallery.)

Tabachine, for FOTD July 6, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD

For Water Water Everywhere #220, July 5, 2024

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Finally, the gorgeous turquoise waters of Big Spring and Little Spring, which together bubble out of the rocks to join to the Current River.
Boats were nestled in among the water hyacinth.
The water ran swift and free,
He told me to sit very still and showed me how to adjust my balance a bit when the water got choppy.

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For Water Water Everywhere prompt

“Kitty See, Kitty Do” for Stumbled Upon

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How many times have you stumbled upon a photo you absolutely love that doesn’t fit under any prompt classification? It happened to me today and try as I might, I couldn’t find any prompt to use it with, so I’ve decided to establish another prompt, “Stumbled Upon.”  There is no set timeline or date for the prompt. I just invite you to use it when needed.. When, looking for photos for another prompt, you stumble upon an absolute long-forgotten favorite, send it on down and link to this post. 

Years ago, someone dumped a box with four tiny kittens in it by my garage door. You can see them all  HERE if you weren’t following me back then.  Needless to say, that day I acquired 4 darling, inquisitive and very active new boarders. My old cat, incensed, moved out, only to come inside again months later when the kittens were inoculated, neutered and safe to be let out of the house. Then she moved back in, but kept her distance.  They, however, claimed the entire house as their own and especially loved the shelves and drawers of the guest bathroom, that they could explore at will, since there was a wide enough space between these shelves and the wall to allow them access to all the drawers, which became their hide-and-seek playgorund as well as an excellent spot for a snooze away from it all. I love the contrast between the live kitten and the sculpture made by a blind artist in Oaxaca.