Two By Two

January 10, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Two, two-footed bumps on a log… One unlikely pair… A tango for two… And two snuggle-ducks… (For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: pairs) Advertisements

Monochrome

January 4, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Days like this, the world stops spinning,settles into a monochromatic state –one emotion, one conflict, one momentcolouring everything, as if singularityis all we can bear – salvation in a seaof green, or hope in amber waves. (Created for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Monochrome.)

The Joy (and Defeat) of Two Wheels

December 30, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Two bikes, abandoned in a park –memories of friendships, and adventures,the yearning for simpler times. Family outings, spurred by the onset of nice weather,the adaptability of wheels for one, or plus one –maintaining the glory of youth, and health. Who doesn’t dream of faster wheels – a motorcycle –the freedom of the open road, nothing […]

I Spy…

December 16, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…canoeists on the Avon river, Stratford, Ontario. …a family fishing outing, Muskoka, Ontario. My favourite birder in Bird Blind #1. (Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is: Catching people unaware.)

Up Close

December 7, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I want to become intimatewith every nook and cranny study each aspect of your contoursappreciate personal nuances learn to love and respect you,from the inside out. (For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Up close and macro)

Brrr…

November 29, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Winter has arrived, and as always, we are not ready. Even the trees are shivering. Not everyone is a winter wimp though…these hardy Canadians took the river to canoe, despite the snow. (for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: cold)

When is a door not a door?

November 22, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

When it’s art. (My father loved this joke, only his answer was always: When it’s ajar.) Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is funny. Humour is subjective, and I tend to be a little warped, but I found this self-defeating licence plate funny: I’ve posted this picture before, and every time I see it, I […]

Soul Stalker

Downy blankets of white softly settle, Nature gratefully submitting to slumber as the Earth bids a seasonal adieu. Inside, my body craving hibernation, curls into layered bedding, draws shades against the snowy scene, wills respite. My soul, a cat, lulled by the miracle stretches wide paws, arches, ready to discover some mystic wilderness. She is […]

Darn Finances

Money – that vital ingredient – threatens to rebuke us, these haphazard habits equating to negligence. Investments – retirement’s foundation – falter, then plunge, a mini crisis hitting too close to home. Change – prodded by re-evaluation – commands control, scoffs at ideal’s naiveté, imperfection highlighted. (Written for dVerse’s quadrille night, hosted by Whimsygizmo, whose […]

The Last Train (Sonnet)

We wait at the station, Mother and I, one final stop for her – painless she prays; I linger 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 […]

One Woman's Quest II

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