Words for Wednesday 18/10/2023

 

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  River for providing the prompts last month. The prompts will be here again this month and are provided by  Sean Jeating. 

This week's prompts are:

• art
• awe
• dreamscape
• face
• moonlit,

And/or

• breathless
• me
• oxygen
• tanka
• you
  

Charlotte (MotherOwl)  has given us Dahlia Yellow 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 #650

 

 

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.  Goodness I lead an exciting life (not).  This week I am taking you back to my general practioner's waiting room (and I wish that the other medicos I see had such interesting spots to wait, wait and wait some more, and to the shopping centre around it.  

Starting with some more close-ups from that fascinating wallpaper.  Every time I go I see more things in it.

And then to the shopping centre itself.  As well as the sheep outside the centre which I have showed you before, there are more sculptures in it.

 I am not sure whether this is a dingo or a sheep dog, but goodness it looks fierce.

And for no apparent reason there is a beetle watching them from the steps.

I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Words for Wednesday 11/10/2023

 

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  River for providing the prompts last month. The prompts will be here again this month and are provided by  Sean Jeating. 

This week's prompts are:

• consider
• rather
• superstitious
• paraskevidekatriaphobia
• table

 
And/or

• bigots
• different
• gender
• hyperbolise
• teeth
  

Charlotte (MotherOwl)  has given us Dahlia Yellow 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 #649

 

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?  The best laid plans...  I intended to show you Floriade in the city.  Sadly we have had hot days, windy days and some torrential rain (when the temperature dropping by over 10C/50F).  The flowers in the city (and I suspect at Floriade itself) are well past their best. In addition we were told an sculpture commemorating Floriade had been temporarily installed in the city.  I found it but I was so totally underwhelmed that I didn't even take a photo.

Instead I am reverting to type and showing some of what is still blooming in our garden.

This dainty little beauty is a fawn lily.  It is the first year it has flowered here and I hope we get more next year.

The banksia roses (yellow and white) are coming to bloom.  At dawn and dusk they look a little like fairy lights.

I do like the goldfish plant.

These sumo lilies are going gangbusters. There is another shot of them taken only two days later that shows just how fast they are growing.

There is a lot more work to be done, but I have at least cleared space for some things to bloom.

I hope your week is blooming lovely too.