PHOTO PROMPT © Nancy Richy Just What the Patient Ordered “The doctor will see you now.” Startled from doomscrolling, I look up into the creased face of Harriet. She’s wearing Golden Girl themed scrubs today. I follow her away from the fuzzy grey chairs of the fuzzy grey room. In stark contrast, Dr. Houdini’s cherry-wood-paneled…
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A2Z 2025 — Day 8 — Helleborus and Heron
Helleborus The plant is beauty and the beast rolled into one. You’ll never find a more gorgeous blossom, and they come in many colors. Interestingly it is the same plant in both photos. The bottom one is where I had it under the pine trees, transplanted there after we moved here from living in…
#MMB 2025 — “April,” by Deep Purple
Deep Purple (III) album cover (from Hieroynmous Bosch) “April” is a song from the eponymous 3rd studio album, Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III, by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States and only in September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom. Its release was preceded…
A2Z 2025 — Day 7 — Ginkgo, Grapes, Groundcover, and Gargoyle
Ginkgo There are 3 small ginkgo out in the back field that I started from seed. They’ve never really taken off and it may be too wet and the deer may have nibbled one too many times. I do have one beauty that I bought from a local nursery that is really starting to thrive …
Esther Chilton’s “Laughing Along with a Limerick” — Flim-Flam Cheeto
image source link Flim-Flam Cheeto There is an orange cheeto flam-flimDestroying the world on a whimThe tariff’s are jumpingThe stocks they be dumpingHe snatches them up with grim grin. Esther Chilton says: Happy new week! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you – your new word is: GRIM
dVerse Q221 — Arrival
ArrivalEach arrival you push yournull rival away, timing right;call far, bring birdsong;hew dull brown to green;awake asleep; dandelionsnavigate lion winds; puffstessellate landscape tomatch cloud-patched sky.Energized, we frolic, ournetherworld forgotten; youtreasure, Sacred You, Spring! De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De would like us to write a 44-word poem using the…
A2Z 2025 — Day 6 — Froggies!
Looks like I picked a good color scheme for the Celtic letter F, as it matches with one (or more) of the froggies. You may or may not know it, but I collect frogs. They are zen masters of transformation, and they sing so pretty. I’ve already heard spring peepers on a warmer day we…
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