Words for Wednesday 18.12.2024

 

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 Alex J. Cavanaugh who challenged us last month, despite it being a very busy month for him.  This month Wisewebwoman is providing the prompts and they will appear here.  Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected light blue as the colour of the month.

This week's prompts are:

• Ravioli
• Serenity
• Marble
• Bridge
• Soccer

and/or

• Foliage
• Nepotism
• Lectern
• Lantern
• Gorgonzola

As always, have fun.

 

Sunday Selections #805

 

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.  This week?  What a difference a day makes.

We have a cactus that lives on our front veranda (to be accurate several pots of it).  It is a vicious beast and not only has strong spikes it also has fine hairs that break off (and fester) if you touch it.  It makes up for that when it blooms.  It blooms over night and only lasts a day.  Spectacular scented blooms that are over eight inches across.

Wednesday evening it was starting to open.

Just before sunset it had opened a little more.

The following morning by 5.30 it was fully open.

And by the time I got home from my shift at Lifeline it was well on the way to closing.

There are several new buds - and I will be watching.

I hope your week is blooming lovely.

Words for Wednesday 11/12/2024

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 Alex J. Cavanaugh who challenged us last month, despite it being a very busy month for him.  This month Wisewebwoman is providing the prompts and they will appear here.  Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected light blue as the colour of the month.

This week's prompts are:

• Arithmetic
• Daffodils
• Bicycle
• Graveyard
• Sympathy

and/or

• Gravy
• Tugboat
• Flag
• Hospital
• Freedom

As always, have fun.

 

 

Sunday Selections #804

 

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.  This week I am again focussing on the hot pinks and reds that have been featuring close to home.

This dawn was brilliantly coloured.  Most of our dawns are much softer.  In keeping with the phrase red in the morning sailor's/shepherd's warning we did get some very welcome rain later in the day.

There are splashes of red in the garden too.

 And in some of the birds that visit us.  I do love our galahs.

 

And our King Parrots.

A male king parrot.

The female king parrot was obviously having a 'bad feather day' but I do like the chevrons you can see under her tail.

I hope you find colour and beauty in your week.