Holiday Gold

December 30, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Holiday colours

Nature in Black and White

December 11, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The natural monotone state of Winter is captured in the first photograph, while I chose black and white for the little wader to emphasize the mood. For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: All about nature.

Last of November

December 2, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Bushboy’s Last on the Card challenge. Featured image is an iPhone capture. Below is last on my camera:

Long…

November 27, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…lane, fence, and branch for Cee’s Black & White Photo challenge: long items

Prickly and other sensations

November 25, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Lens-Artists challenge: Textures

Flights of Fantasy

October 31, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Lens-Artists challenge this week is Flights of Fancy, but given this is Halloween…

Tree Art and Trees

October 16, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Cee’s Black & White photo challenge: Tree art and trees)

Outdoor Living

September 16, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: chairs and picnic tables.

Two Hues

August 28, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: basically two colours.

Children in Motion

August 19, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Backyard BBQs and picnics in the park – perfect ways to build community. The children benefit the most, I’d say. For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: motion

Origin

Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)

The Last Train (Sonnet)

We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]

Mouse Massacre

There are mouse bitssplayed across the sunroomstuck to my favourite throw rug and great globs of glue The trap my husband setto catch the recent invasionapparently lured the hunterfor she, stiff legged andface matted, is skulkingelsewhere I stepped on a gluey biteyes not yet openbefore notingthe disarray Hard to concentratewhen a tail detachedfrom a thigh […]