Words for Wednesday 11/5/2022

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.

 

This month Wisewebwoman was going to provide the prompts on her blog - but she is on a blog break and has sent the prompts to me.   Essentially the prompts will be here for the month and Wisewebwoman and/or I will provide them.

This week's prompts were again provided by her and are:

• white
• painter
• courtesy
• recommendation
• neighbour
• disagree
• traffic
• ambition
• conference
• healthy
  

 And/or

 

 Have fun.

 

 

Sunday Selections #580

 

 

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 Autumn here.  Typically our days are sunny and the nights cool.  I have been revelling in the autumnal colour on the trees and watching leaves drop to reveal a filigree of bare branches. 

 

The tree dahlias are budding prolifically and the first flowers emerging.  Hopefully more will come out before the first heavy frost cuts them down.

We have had our first (light) frost and an area less than sixty miles away has had a dusting of snow.  Winter is on the way.  However it is also summer in our garden.

There are roses and daisies in bloom.  The begonias on the front veranda continue to put on a brave display and the hoya is blooming again.

And it is spring too.  

 

This azalea is in bud.

Double poppy seedlings have emerged.

And in other parts of the garden there are dutch iris, grape hyacinth, freesias and anemones already well above ground.

Colour me confused.

Have a great week, whatever season (or seasons) you are in.

Words For Wednesday 4/5/2022

 

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 Messymimi for challenging us last month.  This month Wisewebwoman was going to provide the prompts on her blog - but she is on a blog break and has sent at least the first week's prompts to me.   Essentially the prompts will be here for the month and Wisewebwoman and/or I will provide them.

This week's prompts are:

• Jewel
• Jigsaw
• Jerboa
• Jasmine
• Jerrican
• Jump
• Jumbo
• Jellyfish

She added, use some or all and add another J word of your own if you like.

Have fun. 

 

Sunday Selections #579

 

 

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 difficult, and one day in particular I crassly described as a pustule.  Everything I touched or each task I had to complete was complicated, festered and exploded (sometimes literally and sometimes metaphorically.  Poor Jazz is in the middle of a flare up of his pancreatitis which means he is uncomfortable and unhappy.  And he had a spectacular digestive upset (naturally on a carpeted area).  Which did my nausea no favours.

As usual I turned to nature for comfort and solace.  The first few photos are of a lovely dawn (the day after the worst day of the week).

I liked the watch cockatoo - who shortly after I took his photo came down and demanded breakfast.

Regular readers will be unsurprised to learn that one day towards the end of the week when we had got Jazz comfortable I demanded a roo fix.  So we headed down to the lake.

Sadly we have had some wild weather and there were a number of large trees down.  Most were being cleared up, but some had obviously come down very recently.

I liked seeing some autumnal colour, interspersed with our native (and evergreen) eucalpyts.

The purple swamphen was as interested in us as we were in it.

 

The water in the lake is not blue - that is a reflection of the sky above.

And yes there were kangaroos - totally relaxed and at their ease in a small clump of oaks.  The oaks are an import, but the kangaroos didn't care.

Perhaps as a reflection of our wet summer and autumn (for which I am very grateful) there was plenty of fungi to admire too.

I liked the lichen too - and investigation tells me that a lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.

And no, I don't know what types of fungi these are - but enjoyed them anyway.

I hope that if you need solace this week you find it as easily as I did.