FPQ #71: Act Your Age…

Fandango’s Provocative Question this week is again a question with multiple sub-questions: How old are you* and how old do you feel — older or younger than your actual chronological age? Do you generally act your age? And what does “acting your age” mean to you? *If you’re uncomfortable revealing your actual age, maybe you […]

CFFC: Made by Humans

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week has the topic Anything Man-made.

LAPC: Delicate Colors in Nature

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98 is by Leya: Delicate Colors. The first thing that comes to mind is flowers. Gardens in springtime, when the green is new A graceful swan on a rippling lake Trees in fog Sunsets are sometimes brilliant, but sometimes their colors are delicate.

FOTD: Irises

I walked around the community garden this morning and took a lot of flower photos, including these. Cee’s FOTD 5/27/20

5 Things Tuesday: Food Combos

Dr. Tanya at Salted Caramel has a new weekly challenge: 5 Things Tuesday – this week the theme is food combos. 1. Pizza: Sausage & onion, or Hawaiian (pineapple and Canadian bacon or ham) – I always try to remember to order it with no barbecue sauce! 2. My favorite dessert is a schaum torte, which […]

2020 Photo Challenge: Backlighting

Travel Words has a 2020 Photo Challenge with its May theme of being creative with light. This week the challenge is to use strong backlighting so that the subject becomes a silhouette.

Sunday Writing Prompt: What Nonsense!

Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie has a Sunday Writing Prompt, which today is “Uncontrollable Nonsense.” Menagerie suggests: Some potential options Write a poem or story using a lot of metaphor that sounds like nonsense but has a much deeper meaning. Write something that is actual nonsense, means nothing. Write about the day to day nonsense you have to […]

FOTD: Geranium

I saw two beautiful geranium plants at the plant store, and bought them – I’d never seen a two-colored geranium before. I planted this one in my plot in the community garden. In this one, you can see another budding flower underneath! Cee’s FOTD 5/25/20

Opening With a Photo a Week

Nancy Merrill is coordinating her theme for her challenge A Photo a Week with the C-19 pandemic. Most places are now at some stage of “opening” at this time, so the topic this week is any kind of opening. Flowers opening: Birds’ wings opening:

Sunshine’s Reflections

Sunshine’s Reflections is a photo challenge by Irene at Heaven’s Sunshine, a weeklong challenge with no prompt nor minimum or maximum limit on photographs. It is Week 5, but this is the first time I am posting photos for this challenge. Clouds on a lake Ducks on a pond Swans on a river