Twittering Tales #141 – 18 June 2019 — Peeping Tom

Photo by Nathan Dumlao at Unsplash.com Peeping Tom Tom was a curious boy – until he saw what he shouldn’t. Ma told him to mind his own business, but he couldn’t resist the sounds on the other side of the fence. Just a tiny peep was all he needed. It was the last thing he…

Monochrome No More

“Canoe on the Lake,” by Netta Everything in Mandy’s house was green. The day she came across the raspberry sherbet-colored silkscreen print of the canoe, she was thrown into a tailspin. Should she go against her obsessive compulsion to have green everything and buy the print? Over the next two days, Mandy checked ebay six…

Coloring Club Plus — 6/18/19

Pretenders is the debut studio album by British-American band The Pretenders, released on 7 January 1980 under Real Records in the UK, and Sire Records in the United States. A combination of rock, punk and pop music, this album made the band famous. The album features the singles “Stop Your Sobbing”, “Kid” and “Brass in…

Doodads — The Yard — 6/18/19

I took all of these on Monday, 6/17/19 and tried to capture anything in the yard that looked interesting. Clearance hostas I bought last year.   fish with a ground cover.  have had this for awhile   peace lily in bloom.  this plant came from my stepdad’s funeral climbing rose bush that was here when…

Night of the Rat

image link New Orleans is known for its strange goings-about, and as you know, many a tall-tale contains a grain of truth. They say back in the days of rum running and pirate jaunts, a strange ship came in on the mist one night. Madame DeSwain, whose inn near the docks greeted gamblers, sailors, and…

dVerse — Quadrille — fret — Resonant Flutters

Resonant Flutters Wee squirts, faces upturned, Rapt ears and eyes agog Elders’ rosewood box hums. Frets vanish, fingers fly, Fever ignites. Grown now, on stage: Showtime. Switch flips, then machine-like Precision – with a smile. Picked notes dance and flutter, Resonant manifestations of passion’s Soulful butterflies.   Kim is the host of dVerse today. Kim…