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.
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 will be posted here but are being provided by Margaret Adamson and her friend Sue Fulton. The prompts will include photographs taken by her Margaret's friend Bill.
This weeks prompts are:
- Fluid
- Optimum
- Excitement
- Bus
- Forensic
- Forest
And/or
- Theatre
- Shoe
- Passion
- Dogmatic
- Prison
- Visitor
Have fun with these.
A big thank you to Margaret Adamson, her friends Sue Fulton and Bill. Next month Delores will be providing the prompts at her blog here.
Even if you don't know Delores, I do hope you will go and check out her posts and prompts. This game is made MUCH more fun by the people who join us.
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 I am taking you on another outing. With no birds, water, sunrises or sunsets. (I know, almost unheard of.)
The arts are well represented here. The Chief Minister who gave us a lot of our public art works (and the Arboretum bless him) was devoted to the arts. When our city was established a 'temporary structure' the Kingston Power House provided the city with coal-generated electricity from 1915 to 1957. After that the building was left vacant and fell into disrepair.
However, in May 2007, that same arts conscious Chief Minister reopened the Powerhouse as The Canberra Glassworks, maintaining many of its original fixtures and fittings.
It provides local, national and international glass artists with access to state of the art equipment and also showcases their work. There is work for sale, and the public are invited to take glass making classes. If I tolerated heat better and my hands didn't shake I would take classes in a heart beat.
Recently we went along to see 'The Chandelier Show'. As always, some of them I love and some are not to my taste. None of them would fit in our home (even if I could afford them).
Please join me in marvelling at the skill involved.
And some detail from the installation.
And some detail from this one too.
There are some lovely things in the shop too.
We were able to watch work under way, and admire some partially finished pieces.
It is a fascinating place - and there is always something new to look at.
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.
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 will be posted here but are being provided by Margaret Adamson and her friend Sue Fulton. The prompts will include photographs taken by her Margaret's friend Bill.
This week's prompts are both photographic (and what stunning photos they are). The words will return next week.
And/or
Have fun.
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.
Before I start, a big thank you for your patience while I wrestled with the lurgy. I
am still coughing and sneezing and still fairly miserable but there is
light at the end of the tunnel.
Like River I usually run with a theme. My city is often fog bound. It is almost a given in winter that planes will be delayed.
A relatively recent forcast was for 'patchy fog'. And it was certainly foggy in our street.
So we headed off to the lake to capture more moody, mellow magnificence. We discovered that 'patchy' was a very accurate description. In my usual restrained fashion rather a lot of photos follow.
No fog here, but only feet away...
Just turning my head could change the view. Into fog/out of fog....
Then to some different photos - also taken on the fog excursion. Watching the news hurts my head and heart on a daily basis. Our treatment of those we classify as 'other' in particular. And on my lake wanderings I was reminded (again) that there IS good in our species.
I really hope you can read this sign. SIEV stands for Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel. This tragedy has been echoed across the world. There is an article here written by one of the people who worked on the memorial which some of you may like to read. The article is not new, but very little has changed.
The final lines on the sign 'Love is stronger than fear. Kindness is stronger than greed' are hopes that I hug to myself on dark (or foggy) days.
