“Stop Over”For The Sunday Whirl Wordle # 644, March 3, 2024

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Stop Over

Near sunset as the bright light fades, both minds and sky grow hazy,
and all the world shifts down a gear, relaxing into lazy.
Just one urgent swirling bee seems bent upon its tasking.
She lunges downward towards my drink, and lands there without asking.

She lowers her proboscis in order to withdraw
one drop of rum and cola that lies beaded on my straw.
A screaming gull unnerves her—sets her angel wings unfurling,
but her  frenzied efforts to lift off have set my mind to swirling.

Her movements are ungainly. She leans as though to fall.
Then clumsily, she flies away, colliding with the wall.
I question if she’s sober as she flies off upside down,
digressing over water, then careening toward the town.

It’s probable this summer day under a July sun
has fermented all her nectar and added to her fun.
Her slight detour while flying off to her abode
No doubt was her attempt to have just one more for the road!**

     **Can Bees Get Drunk?  In the summer heat, nectar can begin to ferment and create ethanol. Bees that digest this fermented nectar will experience the same effects as humans do when they consume alcohol. Also, tree sap, like that of the lime tree, can also ferment under excessive heat leading to crowds of drunk bees.        How can you tell when a bee is drunk? Studies conducted on bees have shown that alcohol consumption has a similar affect on bees as it does on humans.        When a drunken bee returns to its hive, the guard bees around the hive will identify it by its erratic motion and will not allow it to enter.

Firecracker Flower for FOTD Mar 3, 2024

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The scientific name for this flower is Crossandra infundibuliformis.  Isn’t that a mouthful?

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Shape, Form, Texture, Light–for Lens Artists Challenge

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Texture makes use of shape, form and light to create itself.
The simplest of objects can reflect the most intriguing of shapes.
Contrast between shape and form, backlit by light, can provide surprises. I never could figure out what was sticking out of this seagull’s head but it was attached! I had images of a confrontation with a porcupine.
Shapes need not be geometric and ordered to be intriguing.
Light can add an interesting aspect to what might otherwise have been an ordinay portrait

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For Lens Aritists Challenge––Photo Compotition: Shape, Form, Texture, Light

Let’s Boogie!!! for MVB-Fun, Mar 2, 2024

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For MVB-Fun

Blossoming Banana Tree for FOTD Mar 2, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD

Last on the Card, Feb 29, 2024

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My very last on the card I already used for Flower of the Day, so this is my second to the last.

 

For Bushboy’s Last on the Card Prompt

Couldn’t Resist: Daily Funny

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Dahlia: FOTD March 1, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD

Fibbing Friday, Mar 1, 2024

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Murdo Grade School

 

These are more recycled questions from Teresa Grabs who was the Fibbing Friday originator :

  1. What is the most intelligent life form on Earth?  Duh. AI, of course!!!!
  2. Why did we really go to school?  For Recess.
  3. What did teachers do during recess? Oops. You aniticipated my answer to number 2! That said, I’m sure they sat at their desks missing us.
  4. How did you get to school? I walked…through wind, rain, snow, sleet…to my school which was directly across the street from my house. My parents never once drove me.
  5. What was life like before the Internet? Butterfly nets, basketball nets, net stockings, 
  6. What is the best thing about social media? No whiffs of bad breath.
  7. What is your favorite thing to put chocolate sauce on? My tongue.
  8. Doctors were all wrong…humans don’t need water. What do they need? Cheetos Torciditos.
  9. Dolphins are not mammals. What are they? The  second most intelligent life form on Earth, right after AI
  10. There is a Lost Dutchman’s Mine, but where is it? If we knew, it wouldn’t be lost, would it? 

 

For Fibbing Friday

“The Big Empty”, for the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Wide Open Spaces

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These are all photos of  the country around Murdo, South Dakota, where I grew up.  First, Interstate 90 which cut through the edge of the town, and the country just to the west of  town. The third and fourth photos are of the last piece of land my sister and I owned there which we sold a few years ago. It had once contained the last house my parents lived in  there which had since blown away in a tornado. Do these qualify as wide open spaces???

For the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Open Spaces