Words for Wednesday 9/4/2025

 

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. 

Huge thanks to River  and Charlotte (MotherOwl) who provided us with the prompts last month.  This month I will be providing the prompts. 

 

The colour for April is Missing Green.

 

 

 

This week's prompts are:

• Beauty
• Missing
• Totally
• Roundabout
• Belief
  

 

And/or

 

•  Suddenly
• Peace
• Rose
• Calamity
• Solve
  

 

 As always, have fun.

 

I am sure you will join me in wishing good things for River who has her first cataract surgery tomorrow and may not join us this week. 

 

 

 

Sunday Selections #814

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. Huge thanks to Cie who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image. 

The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle. 

 

The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Sorry I still haven't succeeded in working out how to do a blog hop. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.

 

 I usually run with a theme. This has been another busy and fraught week (and next week will be too).  Instead of a theme I am reverting to type and showing some of the things I have noticed (the pleasant things) over the last little while.

 

 The garden has been severely neglected.  Just the same, some things have continued to bloom.

 

 Seeing the Balloon Spectacular made me remember and revisit some of the feature balloons from previous years.

 

These are from 2016

 

 

2017

 

 2018

 

 And there are plenty more if you are interested in a revisit.

I hope your week has splashes of colour and joy.

Words For Wednesday 2/4/2025

 

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. 

Huge thanks to River  and Charlotte (MotherOwl) who provided us with the prompts last month.  This month I will be providing the prompts.  I do not know what colour Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected for this month but will update the post when I do know.

 

 

This week's prompts are:

•  Bookseller
• Solve
• Shore
• Lied
• Buy
  

 

And/or

 

• Folly
• Tales
• Love
• Curious
• Practical
  

 

 As always, have fun.

Sunday Selections #813

 

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. Huge thanks to Cie who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image. 

The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle. 

 

The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Sorry I still haven't succeeded in working out how to do a blog hop. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.

 

 I usually run with a theme. This week I am taking you to our Balloon Spectacular which finished last Sunday.  The youngest of my brothers and I are balloon tragics and do our best every year to see them inflate and take to the skies.  I usually try and go twice, once to see them inflate and a second time to see them from a different vantage spot towing canoists and kayaks on our lake.  This link (which opens in a separate window) shows you some of that magic.  Sadly I didn't see it this year.

 

Balloons are entirely weather dependent.  This year the brother and I made three separate attempts to see them rise.  They didn't.  On the last morning of the festival he had to go to his volunteer job at the local zoo so I went alone.  And got lucky. You will be shocked and surprised that lots of photos follow.  My apologies since many of them are not good photos - the dread disease and my excitement had my hands shaking badly.  It was dark when I arrived but the crowd was building.  And the excitement was palpable.

 

Less talk, more photos.  Each year there is a least one 'feature' balloon.  This year we had two - Axel the tiger and Simba the lion.  I was lucky enough to see both.  Blessed blogger is fiddling with the order of these photos again.  Grrr.

 

 

It was a grey day, but magical.  As each balloon took to the skies crowd clapped and cheered.  The balloonists waved - and the crowd waved back.

 

I hope you find beauty and magic in your week.