Words for Wednesday 38/6/2023

 

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

This week's prompts are:

• Clawing
• Sunglasses
• Landscape
• Grandee
• Anodyne
  
  

And/or

• Descriptive
• Resilience
• Country
• Slice
• Finger

Hilary also offered us some 'extra' words:

• Rainbow
• Coriander
• Falling
• Art
• Exhibit
• Sage
  

Charlotte (MotherOwl)  has given us Turquoise Blue as the colour of the month.  If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and I) will be grateful.

Have fun.

This is Hilary's last week of providing the prompts.  Next month you will find them at the blog of Charlotte (MotherOwl) 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Selections #634

 

 

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. This winter has been warmer than usual. However one night last week it was minus 3C when I went to bed, so I was hopeful.  When I got up again a few hours later it had fallen to minus 6C.  So when it was light I headed out with my trusty bubble blower and some dishwashing liquid and had a couple of hours of fun blowing and freezing bubbles. Mad woman dances were definitely involved, and many photos follow of both bubbles and frost etched foliage. The bubbles don't retain their iridescence for long but become opaque.  They often leave shell behind when they pop.

                   Yes, it was still early. 

 

The water in the bird bath was definitely frozen. I liked the reflections in the ice.

The watch cockatoos were surveying me from the eucalpyt in the neighbours yard.

I went out again to take these last two photos. These bubbles remained for over two hours - note that the last one had acquired a layer of frost.

That morning I was grateful for MS.  I struggle in the heat but while I do get cold it takes a long time and lower temperatures than many people find comfortable.

I hope you find reasons to do happy dances this week.

 

Words for Wednesday 21/6/2023

 

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

This week's prompts are:

•  Archetype (cliche)
• Clouds
• Rummage
• Weakly
• Shovel

And/or

• Grace
• Blot
• Jackdaw
• Legume
• Poet
  

Charlotte (MotherOwl)  has given us Turquoise Blue as the colour of the month.  If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and I) will be grateful.

Have fun.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Selections #633

 

 

 

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.This week (for a change) I am going to start with early morning shots from home.

Then I am going to take you out with me a little later in the day for another trip to town and yet more public art some of which I have shown before.

This is The Other Side of Midnight by Anne Ross.  Shortly before I took this photo there was a small person hugging one of the dogs.

This is the Icarus Series (2009) by Jan Brown.

Life Cycle by David Jensz.  It is made of stainless steel and stones.

Yet another planter box.  They are changed regularly, and there is almost invariably something in bloom.

Some day, I will go through this shopping centre when it is open and go into this small gallery.

I thought that this brutalist sculpture was softened by the reflected light from the sunrise.

Shots of the sky as I walked to catch the first of my buses (for some reason best known to itself Blogger played silly buggers with the order of my photos).

The art in the city centre is very varied and I think there is probably something there for everyone.

I hope you find beauty in your week too.