Words for Wednesday 19/6/2024

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.  And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.

 

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 . 

 

An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is to include Signal Green in your take on the prompts.

 

This week's prompts are:

1. Discourteous
2. Flicker
3. Martini
4. Whips
5. Belly
   

 

And/or

 

1. Waving
2. Frogs
3. Moderation
4. Smile
5. Louring 
   

 Have fun.

 

Sunday Selections #779

 

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 I am reverting to type.  We have had yet more grey days and my body is still behaving badly.  However, I have delighted in our dawns.  Some days have proved the truth of 'red in the morning, shepherds take warning'.  Every day last week there were sheep/graziers warnings in place.  Other days have just been grey.  And I have been out with the camera shortly after first light.  There have to be some benefits to the kitty litter excursions.

I hope you find beauty in your week too.

Words for Wednesday 12/6/2024

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.  And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.

 

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 . 

 

An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is to include Signal Green in your take on the prompts.

 

This week's prompts are:

 

1. Lurk
2. Amber
3. Birch
4. Drainpipe
5. Spelling

 

And/or

 

1. Flour
2. Buttercups
3. Light
4. Train 
5. Mullion
   

 Have fun.

 

Sunday Selections #778

 

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. Last week was a grey week.  We had intermittent rain, lots of cloud and it was too wet to be in the garden where I wanted and needed to be.  In addition my body is behaving badly and my mental and emotional health are suffering.

I am a beauty addict and in dark periods I turn to beauty for relief.  So towards the end of the week on yet another grey day I demanded a roo fix.

It was raining intermittently, grey (but beautiful) down at the lake too.

And then we saw a rainbow, which lifted my spirits immediately.

Shortly afterwards we found twenty or more kangaroos sheltering in a small oak forest.  Bliss.  The kangaroos with collars are females who have been given contraceptives.

I was feeling MUCH better and we headed home - following a rainbow much of the way.

Not only was it wet it was windy last week.  Many of our remaining tree dahlias have been blown to the ground where the possum scarfed the blossoms that remained.  But when we got home in our more sheltered back yard I found this valiant survivor.

I hope you find things to make you smile this week.