PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook Each fall for thirty years they dredged the lake bottom. Pungent deposits, once dried, became super-soil they used to grow dahlias, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and the rest. Money earned from the produce sold at market was enough to keep their lakeside cabin warm in winter. Spring 2020, gale-force winds clenched…
Month: October 2020
Ai Weiwei — prison is a state of mind
I was just looking at a google feature I didn’t know existed until now, Google Art and Culture. When I saw Ai Weiwei’s name I immediately had to check it out. The photo was taken at Alcatraz, the island prison off of the coast of CA. If you click on the title, it will take…
dVerse — Poetics — The Ballad of Hillscomb
image link The Ballad of Hillscomb Folks claim when Red rode in one dusk the sky poured blackish green;That green of corn crept black and that their apple cheeks drained ash;The steed Red wheeled was white as death, with apparition’s sheen;Her burdened mules’ poor staggered steps as if to be their last. They say that…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #53 – October 6, 2020
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Besides the ones I will review today, I’ve also been watching the BBC TV Series, New Tricks, that ran from 2003-2015 (just finished S3) and Hinterland (on S2 now) on Netflix, a Scottish series from a few years ago. I highly recommend both of these series. New…
dVerse — quadrille — Evening’s Cocoon
Evening’s Cocoon Jack’s huffs invade uncaulked cracks.His heat-seeking wisps tickle myuncovered cheeks and snake down tobare ankles and slipper-froze tater-tot toes. I, winter butterfly, weave evening’s cocoon.Softest flannel sheets, under thin cottonblankets, under a satin comforter gleams warm under October’s moon. pxfuel image link Merril is today’s host of dVerse. Merril says:Use blanket as…
Stephen Colbert — A Late Show With…. — Speaks
Better Know a Ballot Get Your Booty to the Poll
Haikai Challenge #158: Harvest Moon (meigetsu) and dVerse OLN — Chang’e
Moon Goddess Milk skin, coal hair, hersilk robes once swished earthbound;now moonlight grace shines down.Mid-autumn Harvest honorsher with humble offerings. From Traveling China Guide Chang’e (Chang E) Flying to the Moon is the most widely told Mid-Autumn Festival legend. It is said that in ancient times, ten suns existed in the sky and the…
Tao Talk 