Even though Cee is taking a break, there is no rest for the wicked so it has been decreed that I have to keep posting a flower a day until she comes back… and then continue for forever!!! This Echeveria Crimson Tide, although not a flower, is as pretty as one and the bonus is that it actually is flowering!
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Aloe about to Blossom. Click on photo to enlarge.
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This has been such a strange year weather-wise that this is the first time I remember being able to see Colima Volcano in months. I can usually see it from the upper level of my house, but the trees have grown up so much that they obscure it from my yard below. I was delighted this morning when I spied this welcome sight from the road leading down from my house. There are two Colima peaks the people call Fire and Ice. This is Ice, now dormant and covered in snow. Fire is directly behind it and is still active at times. My pool and hot tub are heated by water from the magma layer heated by this volcano 56 miles away. How exotic is that?
With less than an hour before midnight, Forgottenman informed me I had not yet blogged today! That has not happened for 10 years! ..Well, except for the other few times he has sent the same message. I think it is because I’m accustomed to doing Cee’s FOTD each day and she is on vacation. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. So, I hurriedly posted a picture of a flower..a non-FOTD post, and then decided to publish photos of my week so far. Now just 39 min. to go on that week. So, here they are!
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Cee is taking a break but I’m addicted to publishing a flower a day, so here I go unprompted!
In Mexico, poinsettias don’t know they are just Xmas decorations. Mine is actually flourishing more now than during the holidays.
Night Thoughts
They lie there like slumbering cats,
unaware of my presence,
then stir to stalk a field
where hidden metaphors hunch,
twitching, in the tall grass.
Whether they exist in a dream or not,
they do not know, but dwell there
in the shadow of my sleep,
transformed into jungle animals.
Exposed to the light of day,
they spring, as though tired of waiting,
into my conscious thoughts,
leaving their footprints on the page
where I jot them down guiltily,
a grateful plagiarist
who has merely trapped
the stuff of dreams.
Showing, then curling and retracting their nails,
paw after pawprint, they stalk
one line after another,
as, taking the credit,
I fill another page.
For dVerse Poets. What Animal serves as a perfect metaphor for how you write?
See how other poets wrote to the prompt HERE.
This is the title of a new book of poems that I am working on formatting and doing the covers for. If anyone is interested in giving me their opinion about the poems, their order and which I should perhaps not include, I would love the advice and could easily send you the ms. as an attachment. Any takers????
Cee is taking off a month for a well-deserved rest, but as I was opening the front gate for my Tuesday English student, Eduardo, to leave, I noticed this interesting bloom at the end of a shoot my echeveria has been sending up for the past week or more. Had to share it. Click on photos to enlarge.
Can’t believe I forgot to post this for the first time in 10 years! Here is my Jan 8 FOTD a day late. Mia Culpa. It’s the huge cactus below the pool, catching the first rays of the morning that have just peekied over the house. These little balls are as close as it ever gets to flowering.
For Cee’s FOTD
Today’s Post is pictures numbered 124. Click on photos to enlarge.
Welcome to “The Numbers Game #3.” Today’s number is 124. 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.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 