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…

Treasures Found

October 7, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Lens-Artists challenge this week is a treasure hunt. I did not have to look for these treasures, nor were they searching for me. I just happened to be the happy mediator between the Stonetowne Quilters’ Guild and the appreciative recipients. Remarkable handiwork, lovingly made by local woman and offered in support of the Ukrainians choosing […]

Here Comes the Sun

August 22, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Here comes the sun.

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

Surreal

July 29, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: surreal

Summer Vibes

July 18, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Lush, thick greenery of the riverside. The cool, calm water. Ice cream and two wheels. Summer vibes! (For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Summer Vibes)

Curves

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

In nature and art, curves are eye-catchers: For Lens-artists Photo Challenge: curves.

Interesting Shops

January 21, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

( For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Interesting objects)

Windows Double Dipped

January 14, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(Double dipping for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: windows.)

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 […]