Month: August 2025

Doodads — August Toads Plus

I mentioned spotting lots of baby toads and many butterflies around the property when I mowed last week.  The monarchs seem to have moved on since then but others are still fluttering here and there.  Toads are much easier to photograph.  The pics posted today are all different ones.  What’s impressive is that they were…

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#FF — Salesman

PHOTO PROMPT © Jen Pendergast Salesman Gerard busies himself applying patchouli-mint gel that holds his blonde-streaked hair in place. He dons a white shirt that twins his capped smile and contrasts so well with his tan. Cool gray pleated pants are next, finished with argyle socks and gleaming black shoes. Gerard turns and smiles before…

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#MMB August songs — “Picture Book,” by The Kinks

Here we are in August and I’ve already found several songs containing it. It remains to be seen how many will be checked off by others before the month is over.   The one I went with today is The Kinks, with “Picture Book.” With Kinks songs, you really can’t go wrong. They are up there…

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Doodads — Queen Anne and Witch Hazel

Do you ever wonder why they name plants after women?  I just wondered when I saw the two flora I am including are named Queen Anne and Witch Hazel.  Anyway… the first pic is a lovely patch of lace out near the road.  It grows all over here. There is a plant that has gone…

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FFF46 — “The Rider-Waite Deck,” by Ichabod Wolf (2024)

Ichabod Wolf I came across, “The Rider-Waite Deck” on Spotify’s Release Radar awhile back and have had it in my favorites playlist since then. There is something compelling about Ichabod Wolf’s (Kieren Smith’s) resonant, fatalistic voice recite-singing the lyrics. The lyrics tell the tale of man who has been beaten hard by love and who…

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