I didn’t even try to count the number of notices that must have been tacked, nailed, stapled and screwed onto this tree turned telephone/ light pole. What better symbol of the busyness of our lives…and the effect it might be having on nature?
For Lens Artists Challenge #336-only one picture We were to choose a photo meaningful to us and to explain why we chose it.
Between Two Worlds
This piece is about contrasts: old and new, peace and conflict, blended cultures, freedom and confinement. It reminds us of the wide variety of what the world has to offer, the need to stay on target, and also to have fun and to spend our time wisely.
This is another of the three mixed-media pieces I have in the new show currently being displayed in the Cultural Center in the Ajijic Plaza. (The same place where I just displayed in the Artful Codger show.) Out with the old, in with the new.
It joins lots of interesting work on the first floor. Upstairs on the second floor is a showing of Jesus Lopez Vega’s work. You’ve seen lots of his work adorning both the inside and outside of my house and don’t tell anyone, but yes…I did buy another of his paintings. It’s small. I’ll squeeze it in somewhere.
This is the third show I’ve set up in three weeks. After this I will be taking a rest…perhaps going into retirement re/ exhibiting, at least for a few months.
For Cee’s FOTD
For Flashback Friday we are asked to rerun an earlier blog published on this day. I’m reblogging one from Feb 21 of 2017. Click on link below to see the blog and then on each photo to enlarge the photos:
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2017/02/21/looking-down-on-things/
In Person
I am the emptiness in you that glues the parts of you together.
I form those other worlds that are the universe inside of you.
I have a language all my own that speaks through your voice.
There is something holding us together, something keeping us apart.
You are that part of me that only I can search for.
You are the part I wrap myself around.
You are the mystery that forms the game of my life.
When I am alone, you create in me the opposite of loneliness.
They are the full cast of my life.
They come together when I am willing to let both of them go.
I let them take turns being my guide.
It is in getting lost in them that I let myself be found.
For SOCS the prompt is “in person.”
For Fibbing Friday, Feb 21, 2025 the challenge is to define the following:
1. What is a quaver? It is an over-the-shoulder receptacle for arrows in Louisiana.
2. If you didn’t know a door as a door, what would you call it? An In-or-Outer.
3. 007 has a license to kill, but what would an 010 have a license for? To drive a ten-speed bicycle.
4. Define Corybantic. One member of a comedy duo known for their ribald humor..
5. What does Crinkum-crankum mean? An invitation to come witness Rin and Ran in an X-rated movie.
6. What is a Cacodemon ? Satan with dysentery.
7. What would you do with a collop? Answer it.
8. What is a curlicue? A cookout for doggies.
9. Who or what is a cootie? An attractive young pigeon.
10. What is an erf? The sound made by a dog with a speech impediment.
Image thanks to z-grills Austalia.
For Cee’s FOTD
Dropped Glove
When love first blooms it seems eternal love
Impossible that it might fall away
What use is love that doesn’t choose to stay?
At first love seems to fit one like a glove
that warmly cloaks our hand both night and day
When love first blooms it seems eternal love
Impossible that it might fall away
We know not what love’s garment is made of.
We only note when it begins to fray
and loosens more and more along the way.
When love first blooms it seems eternal love
Impossible that it might fall away
What use is love that doesn’t choose to stay?
For dVerse Poets we were to write a Madrigal poem. Here are the rules for an English Madrigal: :Content: Often includes a theme of love
*Usually written in iambic pentameter.
*Comprised of three stanzas: a tercet, quatrain, and sestet.
*All three of the lines in the opening tercet are refrains.
Form: A thirteen-line form in three stanzas:
Stanza 1] Tercet -Three lines
Stanza 2] Quatrain – Four lines
Stanza 3] Sestet – Six lines
[L1] A (refrain 1)
[L2] B1 (refrain 2)
[L3] B2 (refrain 3)
[L4] a
[L5] b
[L6] A (refrain 1)
[L7] B1 (refrain 2)
[L8] a
[L9] b
[L10] b
[L11] A (refrain 1)
[L12] B1 (refrain 2)
[L13] B2 (refrain 3)
Go HERE to read other poems created to this prompt.
FOR CEE’S FOTD
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 