SoCS: Dream Is the Stuff of Songs & Snow

Stream of Consciousness Saturday is a weekly writing challenge hosted by blogger Linda G. Hill. There is a simple prompt or theme and you just write whatever comes into your head – no editing! Except typos. I rarely participate in Stream of Consciousness Saturday, but as I was reading other participants’ contributions, I decided to […]

Song Lyrics Sunday: Where Do the Children Play?

I am copying this narrative from the host of Song Lyrics Sunday challenge because I do not often participate. It’s a fun challenge, though, and the song I chose is one of my favorites. I, you, we or they do, only he or she does and the past tense of do takes the form did. […]

FOTD: Field of Flowers

For Cee’s FOTD 11/17/19, I went into my archives for 2019 and found this photo of a field of flowers somewhere in Israel. I don’t know the name of these flowers or even where I took the photo. I don’t think I have posted this before, although it’s possible!

Lens-Artists #72 – Waiting

People wait. Transportation vehicles wait. Animals and plants wait. Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #72, 11/16/19: Waiting

SYW: On Plagiarism, Pets & Pet Names, Dancing and Thanksgiving

Questions: Is copying and pasting images or information off the Internet plagiarism? Do you credit those whose work you ‘borrow freely’ or do you think the idea is repugnant? (Credit for this question goes to GC and Sue) It’s not plagiarism if you specifically state that the work is not your own. Ideally, you should […]

Pull Up a Seat: The Bygone End of Summer

I took these photos in September, when the weather was still somewhat summerlike and conducive to sitting outside, while walking in my new neighborhood in Arlington Heights. Pull Up a Seat challenge, Week 45

FOWC: Lobby to Lobby

Fandango’s One Word Challenge today is lobby. I write poetry when I address a topic that is difficult for me to write about or when I don’t have enough to say to write a decent piece of prose. In these instances, I write unrhymed poems of questionable quality. Like this one: There’s a pro-gun lobby […]

FOTD: Ball Dahlia

See flowers galore at Cee’s FOTD 11/16/19!

CFFC: Yellow

The topic of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is yellow. Yellow building – Regensburg, Germany Yellow rose – Chicago, IL 1st Presbyterian Church light fixture – Evanston, IL Sunset at an outdoor concert – Elk Grove Village, IL Brookfield Zoo entrance – Brookfield/Chicago, IL Fish – Brookfield Zoo Autumn color reflected in a pond […]

Thursday Doors: Walking Tour of Regensburg

July 2-3, 2019 We arrived in Regensburg by bus, where our new ship was waiting for us. We had been on the Viking Gefjon up until our arrival in Nuremberg, but the ship could not proceed south on the Danube because of a broken lock! So a sister ship, the Viking Sigyn, which was coming […]