Wish You Were Here

August 6, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: postcards. Featured imaged is from Stratford, Ontario, then St Marys, Ontario and a local patio.)

Horizontal

August 4, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(Posted for Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week: horizontal lines)

Men At Work

August 2, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: people at work)

Where’d You Go, July!

August 1, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Last on card for July 31, for Bushboy’s Challenge. Unfiltered, unedited. Camera shot is closeup of neighbours beans. iPhone shot is my art on a Redbubble scarf (present to myself).

Clouds Dancing At Sunset

July 31, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Weekend Sky

Shops and Reflections

July 30, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: reflections)

Plane and Sun

July 24, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Weekend Sky

CMMC: Playground and Crops

July 23, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: pick a topic from my photo.)

Taking a Breather

July 21, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Between the hospital where Ric is doing rehab and our home – a forty minute drive – is a conservation area, a perfect place to stop and and breath in nature. The heron has the right idea. Take a moment. Be still. (Lens-Artist’s challenge this week is getting away.)

A Side View

July 19, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week challenge: From the side)

Dear Child

I know a little girl,whose hair in ringletsfalls, unkempt from lackof brushing; who standswhen she should be sitting;who laughs with defiance whenchallenged, her dark eyes gleamingwith mischief; who holds her chin uphigh and stamps her feet, arms foldedin protest when she does not get her way. I see that little girl,have watched her play,with a […]

Re-de-fine-d

Ask me how I’m doingand I’ll say “fine”, notbecause I’m actually fine,but because “fine” is the onlysocially acceptable response. If I said that I have been lyinghere, for three hours now,willing my body to move,that would elicit unsolicitedadvice and tarnish my “fine”. I’d berate myself for breakingmy promise not to moan,knowing that complainingprovokes a compulsive […]