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cool smoothie hot day

Another day working towards 90. The afternoon showers yesterday took some of the humidity out of the air but not enough. Trying to think of something for lunch, I remembered the quart of fresh strawberries I bought at my favorite farm market yesterdy and instantly thought smoothie. If you follow my recipe, your tastebuds will…

Larix decidua ‘Pendula’ / Weeping European larch and dVerse OLN

Rising from the soil as Kun rises from water a green furred dragon. Brown scales gleam when she rests, as heaven’s grace flows to and fro. Lillian is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. One of my old co-workers in the juvenile probation officer job ended up leaving and putting his teaching degree to…

#FF — Step Right Up

PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson “Cedar Point is a 364-acre amusement park located on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, OH. Opened in 1870, it’s considered the second-oldest operating amusement park in the United States.” Food there is expensive, so many families get their collective hands stamped to be able to re-enter then eat coolered…

Haikai Challenge 194: clear [spring-] water (shimizu)

First attempt at a tanka haiga. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says:This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga) that alludes to clear [spring-] water (shimizu).

dVerse — Poetics — Risk!

When more adrenalin than blood coursed through her veinsshe crawled from her bed past the partying carnies. It was worth the risk, as a small promise was made and stored in a soon-forgotten niche of her heart…………………………………….. ………………………………………She’d clawed her way back to it,led by cryptic clues on tattered dream sticky notes. Fishin so many…

#FFFC 121 — Swarm

image from Reddit Inert, stiff shadows, arrogant in their perceived dominion over all of everything on the planet, raised their electronic devices and popped off flashes of the swirling life in the giant tank. Little did they realize that they were orbiting earth, confined in pods, cables running in and out of their paralyzed forms….

Movies, Movies, Movies! #87 – June 8, 2021

Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! At least two of these were chosen after reading reviews by others in Hanspostcard’s Movie Draft that I’ve been participating in for the past 11 weeks or so. Gilda (1946) Starring: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Joe Sawyer, Gerald Mohr, Mark Roberts,…