Creation and Destruction: So Sad

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Front Door
Inside Street Door
Outside Street Door

The men came today to tear down my beautiful arched entry that was damaged by the last earthquake.  They’ll also have to take out the wall beside my front door–and all of Jesus’s wonderful artwork.Below is the destruction in process. So sad, so sad…..And so strange, because my computer won’t allow any photos of the destruction to download! I ended up having to email them to myself and then download.  Numerous cracks that run the depth and height of my house, inside to outside will also be repaired–and the wall between my house and my lot below.

Teardown before repair

“Summer’s End” for the Sunday Whirl Wordle 608, June 11, 2023

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“Summer’s End”

In the shadows of my past, the crow goes soaring higher,
rising from the creek’s mist to the summer sunset’s fire.

Lately a lonely sentinel at the barn’s far peak,
it filters time now through its wings, the past held in its beak.

Yes, I still remember it belting its harsh caw
as it lifted in the air with summer in its maw.

Tomorrow the first day of school, it marked vacation’s end.
As lazy water in the creek meandered ’round the bend,

bound to some deep forest, far from this boundless plain,
I watched free careless summer vanish once again.

For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 608 the words are: mist creek belt shadows forest summer still rising crow filters time sentinel
Image from Juneau Alaska on Unsplash.

Green, Green

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One Word Sunday’s prompt is GREEN. Green I can do~~~

Hibiscus: FOTD June 11, 2023

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For Cee’s FOTD

Gloria’s Hibiscus: FOTD, June 10, 2023

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I took my last visit to my friend Gloria’s house yesterday. Her son sold her house so it was my final walk through her world. For the next few days, I want to publish some of the photos from her garden. R.I.P. dear friend.  

For Cee’s FOTD

Inevitable

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Inevitable

What folly that we thought our “we”
was something that would always be.

That lot we thought that we had cast
though once it was, was not to last,

for life is fated from the start,
conjoined hearts to rip apart.

Divorce or death, when it is done,
reduces two joined hearts to one.

 

For dVerse Poets Pub: “We” Couplets

To see other “We” poems go HERE.

Jetpack Blues

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Does anyone know how I can stop Jetpack from sounding a notification on my phone every time someone views my blog? I don’t want to turn off the sound and haptics because I want to hear phone calls and other messages.  Help!  Driving me crazy. This has only happened since we were forced to switch to Jet pack.

 

Euphorbia Bracteate: FOTD June 9, 2023

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Euphorbia Bracteate or Slipper Flower. Click on Photo to enlarge.

For Cee’s FOTD

Smartass Answers For Fibbing Friday, June 9, 2023

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For Fibbing Friday, the Questions (and my answers) are:

  1. You wanted to book a trip to Athens, but the agent misunderstood you…where did they send you?   There was a bit of a spacing error in my request, so they sent me to a poultry farm to look at hens!

2. What will customs agents find in your luggage? My misplaced breakfast sandwich. It was a very early flight!

3. What do you sneak aboard the flight, and what do you sneak it in? My pet snake. I sedated it,  wound it around my waist, gently closed its teeth round its tail and wore it as a snakeskin belt.

4. The plane crashes — everyone survives — where did you crash? In my in-flight dream. 

5. What are three things you find at your crash site? The drink the stewardess delivered to my tray table as I slept, the end of the movie I was watching when I fell asleep and that we had arrived at our destination.

6. What is the first thing you do when you get back home? Check to see if my house sitter ate all of my Costco Vanilla ice cream!!!!

7. The airline offers you money, but you turn it down…what do you get instead? My head examined.

8. You decide that a cruise is safer. Where do you go? Along the Ukraine coast via the Bermuda Triangle.

9. Sadly, you get marooned on a deserted island but find huts and scientific equipment made out of coconuts…what do you do? Look for the trees the scientific equipment came from. I’m hungry.

10. A fishing boat rescues you, but you have to pay Poseidon for safe passage…how do you pay? Trident gum.

11. He rejects your fare and throws you across the world…you land safely, but where do you end up?  I Fallon Nevada. 

12. How does your story end? THE END!!!!

Flowering Madagascar Palm for FOTD, June 8, 2023

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I have been driving past this blooming Madagascar Palm Tree for over a week now and every time I think I’ll stop and photograph it. I finally did. I love this tree. I have three of them in my lower garden in the spare lot. I don’t think they are blooming yet, though. I need to go peer over the wall to see.

For Cee’s FOTD