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Relax: WP Weekly Photo Challenge
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Midnight Marketplace
For some reason, WP wants to make the first photos huge and the ones I most want you to see are tiny. If you click on the first photo below, it will make the smaller ones larger as well. Also, please note that an explanatory poem follows the photos. Click on the X, upper left of the last photo, to see the poem.
Midnight Marketplace
The server’s hands pour liquid flame,
as though its heat he seeks to tame.
Poured in a river from great height,
a brilliant blue pulses with light
and falls steaming into a cup
for late night diners to drink it up.
Then when the restaurant lights go out,
the cats emerge to run about
through the darkened market aisles
to stalk their prey and sport their wiles—
grooming beneath swaying lights,
arching backs and staging fights.
This world of cats comes out at night—
that time when magic is at its height.
They swarm about and ebb and flow,
everywhere we come and go,
as though by moving through it, they
bring power to a feral day.
The hand that reaches to connect
is not rewarded. It’s suspect.
For as they walk their empty aisles,
over midnight-cooled tiles,
already in our nodding heads
are thoughts of home and welcoming beds.
S’cat!!!! NJW’s Halloween Challenge.
Everyday Kitty
Casts a fine shadow. Likes to curl up.
Has to put up with that scrawny new pup.
At her most regal when perched up on leather,
she suns on the wall in the sunniest weather.
Not very scary like Halloween cats.
Doesn’t quite go with pumpkins and bats.
But everyday kitty has her own way,
and she’s a great kitty for just every day.
https://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/10/04/jnws-halloween-challenge-cat/
Fierce
Fierce
When first he turned up on their lawn,
he might have been the Devil’s spawn.
He hissed and sputtered––showed tooth and claw––
fierce growls emitting from his widespread maw.
They feared they might be scratched or bitten,
yet took a chance ––and tamed the kitten!
(I think you’ll want to click on the below photos to enlarge them. You’ve seen some of them before, but worth reviewing imho.)
prompt word today was “Fierce.”
Palm Sunday: Sunday Trees Challenge, Aug 28, 2016
Nothing like a little rest in the shade of a few palm trees!
This is Annie––once in the majority but now grossly outnumbered by dogs in the house.
For more trees, go HERE.
My Life with Cats
I was walking by my friend Isidro’s studio/gallery one day when I saw these little paws sticking out from under his door. Very shortly thereafter, this little boy came by and the rest of the story took place. So touching. He knew right where to stick his finger in the kitty’s underside of his paw to bring obvious pleasure to his friend. Had to add a shot of my kitty Annie as well..waiting on the wall to be fed. I think more photos will follow, but I have to catch a plane now..See you later.
https://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/06/28/one-word-photo-challenge-cat/
Bearcat—NaPoWriMo 2016, April 20
When my new husband and I moved from L.A. to the redwoods of northern California, a feral cat appeared from the forest and after a week or so of hide-and-go-seek games, deigned to move in with us. A month or so later, she had three kittens—like their mother, all grey Burmese with chartreuse eyes, but each with a differently-shaped tail. The mother’s was curved at the end with a dip to the right. One of the female kittens had a similar dip, but to the left. The other female had a zigzag tale. The sole male, Bearcat, was the only one with a perfect tale—unbent, long and expressive. He was also the biggest, the most talkative and the only one to survive for fifteen years—long enough to move with me to Mexico.
Bearcat
1987-2002
R.I.P.
back-lofter
tail-wafter
gray-bearer
drape-tearer
ball-loser
lap-chooser
bunny-slayer
shoelace-player
sofa-climber
sleep-mimer
shadow-springer
dragonfly-bringer
lizard de-tailer
spider-nailer
basement-searcher
window-ledge percher
tree-dweller
mouse-smeller
dog-chaser
bug-caser
door crack-peeper
sunbeam-sleeper
woods-walker
squirrel-stalker
rail-balancer
prey-glancer
shadow-catcher
love-hatcher
body-spinner
heart-winner
NaPoWriMo prompt: Kennings were riddle-like metaphors use in Norse Sagas. Basically, they are ways of calling something not by its actual name, but by a sort of clever, off-kilter description — for example, the sea would be called the “whale road.” Today, I challenge you to think of a single thing or person (a house, your grandmother, etc), and then write a poem that consists of kenning-like descriptions of that thing or person.
Here is an earlier poem written to this same prompt:
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/04/13/napowrimo-day-13-wish-wagon/
Color Your World Pink Sherbet
Color Your World Mahogany
Color Your World Mahogany
(Click on first picture to enlarge to full size and to view gallery.)
Bobino the cat always enjoys a good cigar after his nap.
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/23/color-your-world-mahogany/
Tequila Sunset
Tequila Sunset
Another sunset and another tequila sendoff at Daniel’s place next door. Tonight was a large and happy crowd.
Next door, Lora Loca was serving fish and chips and dancing flamenco with another friend. Unfortunately, my pictures were all blurred, but when a mariachi group later dropped by to play and the flamenco dancer got up to dance again, I heard the music from next door and ran over to try to click a few more pictures. Again, I forgot to turn on the flash so the pictures we all unusable, except for this fellow, who donned a sombrero and decided he’d like flamenco lessons:
And these folks who were greatly entertained by his efforts.
When I got home, Bobino visited for the second time today.
Having investigated the dish I’d put the last of his salmon in earlier this evening and finding it wanting, (see it behind him) he wandered into the living room.
He seemed to be interested in the dish I’d eaten yogurt from earlier.
And executing a graceful leap, he tidied up the bowl.
Curled his lip, extended his tongue. Cat language for “Hope you can do better on the morrow!” Ran under the couch and eventually, out the door. Night, Bobino!!!
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/optimistic/
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