Numbers Game #6, Jan 29, 2024

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These things are never really planned, but shortly after Frida’s death, I found Zoë on a beach north of La Manzanilla.This was the first time I ever held Zoe.

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #6”  Today’s number is 127. 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.

For Wordle 639, Jan 28, 2024

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Home Invasion

A curious wood mouse prowls the edges
of our garden’s outer hedges,
penetrates our house’s maze,
invades the kitchen and starts to graze.

Though caught within the streetlamp’s glow,
he can’t be seen as he’s below
while we’re above, still sleeping tight,
immersed in dreams that fill the night.

Crude visitor, though frail and small,
nonetheless invades the wall,
climbs up and up from floor to floor,
down the hallway, through my door.

He hears my sighs, observes my snore,
and water dripping just next door
from the faucet of the bathroom sink.
Impetuous, he goes to drink.

Down in his luck, too bad that he
knew not my dad had gone to pee,
saw the mouse and took a swat.
And now, alas, that mouse is not!

The prompt words for The Sunday Whirl today are:maze penetrates edges glow curious crude frail mouse prowl drip sighs impetuous

Yes, I took the photo and yes, I’m holding the mouse. Can’t remember where or when this was taken, but in another photo you can see my rings so I know it is me.

Sedum Blossoms, Jan 28, 2024

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Night and Day for Lens Artists Challenge

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But now, art in the sky promises rain.

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The first photo is one I took at sunset in La Manzanilla where for years I spent a month or two each year.  The poem is made to reflect the path of moonlight or sunlight on water.  This photo is going to be used for the back cover of my book soon to be published, “If I Were Water and You Were Air.”

For Lens Artists Challenge: Day & Night

Cape Rain-Daisy, Jan 27, 2024

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This was another surprise popup in my planter near the hot tub. Must have planted it long ago  and it reappeared. Love the tiny little gold flowers bursting out of the black bee bees in its center.

India Shot Lily, Jan 26, 2024

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Fibbin’ Friday, Jan 26, 2024

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The challenge for Fibbing Friday this week is to interpret these words or phrases::

1. “A few sandwiches short of a picnic” What you get when you send a hungry kid to the deli to pick up your order for the party.

2. “Bagsy” My mysterious guest in my garden a few weeks ago.  (See him HERE.)

3. “Bog-standard”  My East Indian doctor, Dr. Adnatsgob’s  door sign, seen in a mirror.

4. “Budge up”  My dad’s advice to me when I asked him for a loan.  “Nope. No way. Better budge up instead!”

5. “Chinwag” My dog’s response to the smell of a bag of McDonald’s hamburgers.

6. “Faff” That sound a can of hair spray makes when it has just run out of spray.

7. “Full Monty”  Monty Python after the cast picnic when you haven’t sent a hungry kid to the deli to pick up your order for the party.

8. “Give me a tinkle on the blower”:  Donald Trump’s entreaty at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow.

9. “On it like a car bonnet”  What you answer, pointing to your head, when a friend asks you where the bird shit on you.

10. “Tickety-boo”  What your offense is called when a cop gives you a ticket for  sneaking up behind him and scaring him.

Hibiscus, Jan 25, 2024

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Another beauty from this prolific bush. A sunny new greeting every day.

Answer to Yesterday’s Mystery Flower: Saltmarsh Fleabane (Pluchea Odorata)

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Okay, I cheated by not showing you how tiny they are. I was just amazed at how beautiful they were when magnified. If you want to see them closer up, go HERE.

This is actually a huge spindly bush that grows up from my lot below..at least 15 feet high. It looks weedy from farther away and today all the flowers are closed, but looks beautiful in this photo, I think. And the other closer up photos. Link above.

Mystery Flower, Jan 24, 2024

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I’m holding back one photo until after someone guesses correctly what flowers these are. A remarkable difference between them, but they are all the same flower. Can anyone name them?