Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Sunday, 22 June 2025

Sunday Selections #825

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. Many of you know that I really like winter not least because some years I get the chance to freeze bubbles.  We had some chilly mornings this week just gone (hovering between -4 and -5C or 23-25 F).  So after I had fed the cats and dealt with their kitty litter I headed out.  Not quite cold enough.  Some of the bubbles lasted ten minutes or more and left a shell behind them when they popped but they didn't completely freeze.  Here are some of my attempts.
 












 I do hope it gets colder in the coming weeks.
All was not lost though.  One of the dawns where I was outside was spectacular - including colour reflected onto the frosty ground.
 







 
 Where we the other household residents while I was playing in the frost?
 

 Very cosy and not going anywhere anytime soon.
 
In other news it looks as if fairly major surgery is part of my near future and cancer has not been ruled out.  Cross your fingers for me please.  Next appointment with a new specialist who should be able to give me answers on the first of next month.
 
I hope you find beauty in your week. 
 

 

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Words for Wednesday 18/6/2025





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.  And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.
 

Huge thanks to David M. Gascoigne for providing the prompts last month. The prompts will be here again this month and are provided by Hilary Melton-Butcher

 

An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is to her colour of the month in your take on the prompts.  In honour of her yellow irises survivng the drought in her Frog pond, the colour of June is "Surviving Iris Yellow"
 
This week's prompts are:

  • Tracts       
  • Lego   
  • Satirical    
  • Covered     
  • Breakup 
 
And/or
 
  • Violin      
  • Wheels 
  • Informer       
  • Bee     
  • Mountains


 Have fun.