Words for Wednesday 16/4/2025

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:

• gentle
• organic
• standards
• odour
• moisture
  

 

And/or

 

•  20 years
• noses
• pregnant
• gloves
• high
  

 

 As an aside all these words come from the box of a product we use regularly here.  Can you guess what it is?

As always, have fun.

 

Sunday Selections #815

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.  River may not join us this week, depending on how her eye is adapting to the cataract surgery she had on Thursday.  If she doesn't she will be missed.

 

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). I am going to go back and post some more feature balloons from years gone by - photos that have definitely been languishing in my files.

 

2021 when we had a plethora of feature balloons including Skywhale Papa and Skywhale Mama.

 

 2022 - and I don't remember the sloth's name.

2015.  I was amazed at how creepy Yoda looked when the burners were alight.

 

2008.  No features balloons but a glimpse of how beautiful it is to be flying in a balloon - with the other balloon tragic in the family.

 

Thank you for allowing me to indulge myself - and yes there are  yet more folders of balloon photos.  Which I may post again next week.

I hope your coming week is packed with colour and joy
 

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.