Words for Wednesday 29/12/2021

 

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.

The prompts will be here this month.  Huge thanks to all those who offered to provide the prompts next year.  We have all of the year covered and I will put up a post soon to tell you where to find them.

This week's prompts are:

1. Beautiful
2. Elusive
3. Endurance
4. Deep
5. Determination
6. Extraordinary

And/or

Have fun.

I have been remiss.  Early next week (if not before) I will put up a post to show where the Words for Wednesday prompts will be next year.

Sunday Selections #565

 

 

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. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.

  

I usually run with a theme. It is Boxing Day here, the day after Christmas Day.  Boxing Day was originally celebrated as a day to give gifts to the poor.  It is now predominantly a shopping day with HUGE sales.  Even before covid hit it had very limited (no) appeal.  That appeal has now diminished even further, and I will avoid it like the plague it is no doubt spreading. 

Instead I am going to show you yet more snippets from home.

 

Starting with a bird that was looking in at me early one morning a few days ago.  It is a crested pigeon, and I think a subtle charmer.  And oh, what pink feet it has.

Then to my usual plethora of photos from the garden, which has been sadly neglected.  It shows too.  Over the coming  weeks I will have to weed my heart out.  Early, before the heat ramps up.

I really like these succulents and have a lot of them.  The pink one was a gift from a blogging friend (thank you dinahmow).  I worried that it would find it hard to adapt to our very different climate, but after a slow start it has settled in nicely.

 

You will notice that there are a LOT of lilies coming into bloom.  Here on the screen they won't trouble sensitive noses and sinuses.

This scarlet bromeliad struck me as particularly Christmassy, so it formed part of my gift to himself.

Some of our well used compost bins with tree dahlias reaching for the sky behind them.

The jet trails are a sign that (very slowly) our borders are opening up again.

Gazanias are such cheerful blooms.

This is our front veranda, a cool haven on hot days.

One of the last of the double poppies. There are plenty of seed heads for me to collect and broadcast later.

I do hope that your days are packed with colour and beauty.

Words for Wednesday 22/12/2021

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.

The prompts will be here this month.  Huge thanks to all those who offered to provide the prompts next year.  We have all of the year covered and I will put up a post soon to tell you where to find them.

This week's prompts are:

1. Bird
2. Lifetime
3. Impossible
4. Days
5. Dreams 
6. Meet

And/or

1. Spider
2. Thread
3. Secret
4. Thing
5. Author
6. Recesses

Have fun.

And for those that celebrate it, a very, very Happy Christmas to you all.

 

Sunday Selections #564

 

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. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.

  

I usually run with a theme. It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.  As well as the ubiquitous store decorations many people decorate their houses and I see quite a lot which look like this.

 

I am not religious.  Just the same, many of the Christmas decorations I see strike me as bordering on sacrilege and are a tribute to consumerism.

Out and about in my city I discovered some simple decorations that charmed me.  I hope you will enjoy them too.

The first photos are from the suburb in which I grew up and are simply titled 'Yarralumla does Christmas'. It is one of our older suburbs and is green and leafy.

Being me I couldn't resist taking photos of lovely plants...

I did like the Christmas ducks who live in a garden bed beside the road.

The red bows feature on many of the street trees.  Street after street of them.  I showed you some last year, and will probably show more next year too.

The final shots come from a house in my own suburb.  I loved it, and made a special trip to take photographs early one morning.

 

Perhaps this currently tiny conifer will feature in future years when it grows up.

I assume that the initials on the hats belong to family members in the decorated house.

I liked their quirky letterbox too.

Aren't they charming.  Whatever you celebrate (or don't) I hope that the holiday season and year are packed with tidings of comfort and joy.

 

Words for Wednesday 15/12/3032

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.

The prompts will be here this month.  Huge thanks to all those who offered to provide the prompts next year.  We have all of the year covered and I will put up a post soon to tell you where to find them.

This week's prompts are a selection of phrases relating to love and/or relationships.  You can use some of them, all of them or add your own;

 

1. Out of sight, out of mind
2. Absence makes the heart grow fonder
3. Puppy love
4. Love laughs at locksmiths
5. Love is blind 
6. A face that only a mother could love
   

Have fun.  I will be out for a lot of the day (again), but look forward to reading your responses when I return.