For some reason, WP will not let me add these links to my previous post about hummingbird moth larvae (also known as hornworms) so here are some links to earlier posts that show even more phases of this fascinating caterpillar:
Hummingbird Moth Caterpillar: One Word Photo Challenge: Insect
What is Pasiano looking for??? Click on photos to read the story.
Mismatched
By what draconian measures might you cure your spouse of snoring?
No amount of pushing, shoving, poking, shouting, roaring
will rouse him from his sleep, and it does no good to smudge him.
No pungent fumes from spruce or sage can do a thing to budge him.
As maddening as a girl might find a husband who is boring,
there is no match more irritating than one prone to snoring.
Prompt words today are it, spouse, draconian, spruce, push and pungent.
We’ll Be Having S’mores!
He’ll rid the cupboards of food he abhors
and refurbish them with the makings for s’mores:
marshmallows, Hershey bars and then for backers,
he’ll purchase a surplus of packs of graham crackers.
A triple pleasure, this snack is the star
of any snack found in packet or jar.
Let the unimaginative shop in stores
for pre-made snacks. He’ll be serving us s’mores!
Prompt words today are triple, unimaginative, marshmallow, refurbish, star, surplus. Photos by Autumn Mott and Jessica Rusce on Unsplash.
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Today is the saints day for the Virgin of Guadalupe and skyrockets and church bells have been going off since 6 A.M. It seems fitting that I show the Virgin and her floral offerings as well as a display of fresh kalanchoe blossoms in honor of Our Lady of the Roses. They are as close to roses as I can get in my garden.
For Cee’s FOTD
Cantankerous
Grandpa is displaying his usual disposition,
expressing all his anger with excessive exposition.
He’s feeling most litigious and says that all the dang
liberals and Democrats should be sentenced to hang!
To Hell with all the secrecy. Sound the fire sirens
and lynch all left wing voters found in our environs.
If it were up to him they’d draw and quarter, limb-from-limb
every gol-durn voter who does not vote like him!
Prompt words today are hang, litigious, secrecy, disposition, sound. Image by Charles Buchler on Unsplash.
Fiction, Dolly!!!!
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How Nature Heals
Here beneath the open sky
all possibilities flow by.
Channels cut through Earth by time
contain the base and the sublime.
Heaven and Hell equally mixed
within a world man thinks he’s fixed,
but the urgency of mankind’s rule
often brands him as a fool.
Serial acts to gain control
have ripped our planet from Pole to Pole.
Disasters far beyond our range
to remedy with tardy change––
threaten with an urgency
that nature in resurgency
thrusts in our faces. Fire storms
plague us as our planet warms.
Hurricanes and flooding rains
show us how nature disdains
our engineering of global drought,
water we can’t do without
and yet, when sent with too much zeal,
destroys what it was meant to heal.
Could it be that nature’s fuss
is meant to do away with us?
The prompt words are: rule open sky beneath within hell heaven flow channel urgency time serial for The Sunday Whirl Wordle 582
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