6WSP: Water

Water sustains all species on Earth. It belongs to all life forms. It’s to be shared by all. Water is our lifeblood on Earth. Saturday Six Word Story prompt 9/19/20.

FOTD: Sunflowers

Most of the flower pictures I have taken lately have been in our community garden. This is how a large sunflower plant looked on Sept. 2: Same plant, two weeks later: Close up of one of the sunflowers (down low!): Cee is back home, safe and sound! This post is for her FOTD 9/19/20.

Irreconcilable Frustrations: Based on a True Story

I felt guilty even as I was dialing my sister’s phone number. This was the first time I had called her since the pandemic started, but what better day than on her birthday? She answered on the third ring, saying, “Hello” in the way she always does, as if it’s a final statement, not a […]

FOTD: Hibiscus After Rain

Hibiscus or Rose of Sharon (which is a type of hibiscus) after the period of rain we had over the weekend. I’m posting this to show solidarity with Cee in hoping rain comes to her fire-ravaged state of Oregon. Cee’s FOTD 9/14/20

SYW/HP: On Household Chores, Love & Marriage, Speaking One’s Mind and Happiness

Here are Roger and Melanie serving up some interesting questions this week in Share Your World Meets Harry Potter. Roger’s Magical, Mystical Questions: You have just been gifted a magic wand that specializes in completing household chores. You can request the completion of only two household chores. Which chores would you assign your wand to […]

FOTD: Sunflower

Cee Neuner has had to evacuate from her home in Canby, Oregon, to her sister’s in Idaho. The fires are raging in Oregon! I don’t know if she will post FOTD today or not, but I am posting this in her honor – we’re thinking of you, Cee, and happy you are safe!

6WSP: Motivation

Shweta Suresh at My Random Ramblings has a Saturday prompt called 6 Word Story Prompt. This week the word is motivation. Information and guidelines for this challenge can be found here. My 6-word story kind of describes how I feel. The opposite ofmotivation isprocrastination.

FPQ: Dream a Little Dream

Fandango’s Provocative Question #86 is about dreams: What has been the strangest, weirdest dream that you can remember? What do you think triggered that dream? I’ve had many wild dreams in my life! In periods of creativity, my dreams also become creative and I have been able to remember a few of them quite clearly. […]

FOTD: One of These Things Is Not Like the Others…

Who remembers the song on Sesame Street “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn’t belong…”? I’m playing that game today with my flower of the day photo: in a field of black-eyes susans, a purple blazing star rises above its yellow companions. Cee’s FOTD 9/11/20

Thursday Doors: A Nubian Lodge

Norm’s Thursday Doors is back! I haven’t been anywhere, like most of us. So I went into my archives and found photos of this charming place that we stayed one night at in Abu Simbel City, in southern Egypt. This region, which is today southern Egypt and northern Sudan, was traditionally the home of the […]