Today a friend and I toured 8 different gardens in 80+ degree heat. The temp in the car said 88 on the drive home. Thankfully some of most of the gardens were in shade which helped. Before going on to the pictures, I have to say a universal plant in each of the yards was…
Month: July 2019
#MM Saturday Mix – Sound Bite, 6 July 2019 — silly onomatopoeic poetry
pluck pluck pluck go my heart strings honk honk honk your love for me heart wants flip flip flip and sing fingers writhe and match its beat pluck a pretty peach pluck it off the vine honk a funny ditty, tell me that you’re mine flip a shiny coin, glimmer end to end writhe in…
Coloring Club Plus — 7/6/19
This cut is from disc 2 of Brit Box: UK Indie Shoegaze & Brit Pop Gems, which was released on November 20, 2007, by Rhino Records. I posted on it yesterday here. The song I chose from disc 2 is track 12 (Thought I’d Died) And Gone to Heaven by The Family Cat, which is…
Friday Doodads — The yard
It’s been in the 80’s all week, which means too hot to do much outside for most of the day. I just went and got the mail out of the box, deadheaded the hanging basket of petunias and verbenas the kids got me for my birthday — yes, I just had a birthday, yay —…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #94 — diamante form — Truth and Meaning
truth subjective, sincere resonating, touching, influencing searchworthy, integrity, deceptive, disrespectful harming, misleading, alluring sneaky, uncaring lie meaning distillation, gestalt clarifying, understanding, rippling implication, message, bereft, empty unfeeling, lacking, hollowing numb, sociopathic vacant Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge. Reena says: You may choose either the picture or the words or…
Enough
image from site with info on first prison in VA Government soldiers were told to kill every man in enemy territory and capture all of the women and children. The government was the U.S. and the enemies the Native American First People. Charles had been killing and capturing for a good twenty years now. The…
50 Word Thursday #27 — Do no harm?
“He hoped that by remaining where he was, he might do some good, even there.” – Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens Baby Nicholas was born in the asylum, the son of Anna, a woman who had been there for a year, and Dr. Phibes, her psychiatrist. The previous year, Anna had gone to the police…
Tao-Talk 