Words for Wednesday

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Week after week she provided us with challenging prompts.    Computer issues led her to bow out for a while and I took over.  When Delores' absence looked like being more permanent I begged and cajoled for other volunteers to share providing the prompts, and Words for Wednesday became a movable feast.  Delores discontinued her blog for a while, but she has returned.  Her new blog can be found here.

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.

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.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.

This month the prompts were to be provided by Vest at his blog.  Life has got in his way (as it does), so this month I will provide the prompts.  
 
If he does put up a post, then we will just have more words to play with. 

This week's prompts are:

1. angel
2. lullaby
3. condition
4. sad
5. melt 
6. crocodile

And/or

1. formula
2. honeydew
3. bumble
4. sticky
5. hoax 
6. felon

Have fun.

Next month Granny Annie will be providing the first of the year's prompts, and in Febuary we are travelling full circle and they will be provided  by Delores, who originated the meme.

I am looking for other volunteers for subsequent months.  Please leave a response in the comments if you are happy to challenge us.

 

 

Hanukkah and Christmas have landed.

Hanukkah and Christmas have arrived here, and they are rapidly approaching those of you in the Northern Hemisphere.

For those who celebrate, I hope it is everything you wished for.

Sadly it is a difficult time for many, so please.

Today and every day.

Words for Wednesday

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Week after week she provided us with challenging prompts.    Computer issues led her to bow out for a while and I took over.  When Delores' absence looked like being more permanent I begged and cajoled for other volunteers to share providing the prompts, and Words for Wednesday became a movable feast.  Delores discontinued her blog for a while, but she has returned.  Her new blog can be found here.

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.

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.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.

This month the prompts were to be provided by Vest at his blog.  Life has got in his way (as it does), so this month I will provide the prompts.  
 
If he does put up a post, then we will just have more words to play with. 

This week's prompts are:

1. root 
2. fortuneteller
3. funeral 
4. gushing
5. carriage
6. bake

And/or

1. mobster 
2. chart 
3. melody
4. major
5. foot
6. limousine

Have fun.
  

Sunday Selections #307

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.
 
The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.  Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
 
Like River I usually run with a theme.  This week?  Not really.  An assortment of the things which have appeared this week.

After some very hot days we had some rain.  Life giving gentle rain.  The garden and I rejoiced.  Jazz sulked.

As always we were visited by birds.  Including a very grubby corella (and some of his/her cleaner relatives).

A sunflower seed which the birds had overlooked took root and was allowed to grow.  And when I say 'allowed' I mean that the birds allowed it.

Some wet liliums gave me joy.

And a spiderweb which had caught raindrops rather than insects.  You might need to embiggen these images to see the rain jewels...

And, because it is very almost Christmas.
For more years than I care to remember we have been making Christmas cakes (and shortbread) to give to family and friends.  In four different sizes.
Some of this years crop  (and no, they are not burnt, it is the camera angle and the lighting in the kitchen).

Sunday Selections will not appear next Sunday.  For those of you who celebrate (and indeed for everyone ) I hope that the day (and the year to come) is filled with love and laughter.

Words for Wednesday

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Week after week she provided us with challenging prompts.    Computer issues led her to bow out for a while and I took over.  When Delores' absence looked like being more permanent I begged and cajoled for other volunteers to share providing the prompts, and Words for Wednesday became a movable feast.  Delores discontinued her blog for a while, but she has returned.  Her new blog can be found here.

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.

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.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.

This month the prompts were to be provided by Vest at his blog.  Life has got in his way (as it does), so this month I will provide the prompts.  
 
If he does put up a post, then we will just have more words to play with. 

This week's prompts are:

1. guest 
2. blowtorch
3. horizontal 
4. groan 
5. episode 
6. action

And/or

1. wreck 
2. featherweight
3. luxurious
4. parrot 
5. heating
6. grizzly

Have fun.

Sunday Selections #306

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.
 
The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.  Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
 
Like River I usually run with a theme. This week, as is not uncommon I am returning to two of my obsessions.

Starting with birds.  I do like Crested Wood Pigeons, and was pleased with these photos.  It seemed to be having a bit of a bad feather day around the nether regions though.

And then to the sky.  To an almost surreal sky, which changed by the minute...

Words for Wednesday

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Week after week she provided us with challenging prompts.    Computer issues led her to bow out for a while and I took over.  When Delores' absence looked like being more permanent I begged and cajoled for other volunteers to share providing the prompts, and Words for Wednesday became a movable feast.  Delores discontinued her blog for a while, but she has returned.  Her new blog can be found here.

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.

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.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.

This month the prompts were to be provided by Vest at his blog.  He has not yet put up the prompts, or responded to my email so I am stepping in for this week at least.  I do hope that he and his wife are ok.

If he does put up a post, then we will just have more words to play with. 

This week's prompts are:

1. protest
2. burden
3. pattern
4. reckless
5. hopscotch
6. camel

 

 

And/or

 

1. crown 
2. locust
3. blast
4. first 
5. grabbing
6. old

 

I am sorry to be late to the party.  Have fun.

Sunday Selections #305

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.
 
The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.  Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
 
Like River I usually run with a theme.  I am pretty certain that grief is grey.  So this week I have been looking for colour.  And have found it.


An eastern rosella which visited.

In the garden.

 


 And in the sky.

The last is reflections of the sunset in the windows along our veranda.