Looking way back at the Jurassic period ginkgo trees flourished across the Asian continent. Over millions of years, their fossils began to diminish. Two and a half million years ago, only a “handful of ginkgo lineages” remained, in the forests of Central China. At some point 1300 to 1400 trees made their way to Japan….
Coloring Club Plus — 8/5/19
Yes, late again. My apologies. My kids came over around 2:30 yesterday and stayed until 4:30. I left at 4:30 to go to a cidery for ice cold cider, good food, and excellent conversation along with many laughs with friends. Got home from there and decided to watch movies instead of listening to music and…
The Klutz
image link Chet was a klutz. It started in infancy when he dropped his baby bottle from the crib. Chet’s nanny came running and had the formula-saturated broken pieces of thick clear glass bagged and put into the bin in a jiffy. “Chetty, that’s the third bottle this week! What are we going to do…
Coloring Club Plus — 8/4/19
The coloring has nothing to do with the post, except that it is a place I would like to take my mind to right now; a peace-inducing lily-covered pond. I was going to pick a song randomly, as usual. Then I heard about the maniac in El Paso who fired into a busy store and…
#SLS — Long Hard Times to Come by Gangstagrass, featuring T.O.N.E. Z from the TV series, Justified
Jim Adams is promptmeister for fun prompts for Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week you can write about either the TV show or the song, or both. Everyone should be able to find a song that is featured in a TV show and works with this prompt. Here are the “rules”: Post the lyrics…
Hungry (mature audiences only)
image link WARNING: THIS MAY BE TRIGGERING FOR THOSE WITH PTSD Father Jones had been sent by the church to the far reaches of Alaska to convert the Alaskan population to Christianity. You see, Father Jones was a weak man. He’d been bounced from parish to parish for years, as his weakness of “infatuations” with…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #98 — Perspective
image link Perspective — a prism where your eye is the light your brain waits for rainbow. Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge. Reena says: A favorite theme which reflects in my writing is perspective. I’m totally fascinated with the potential of this – how it creates different realities for…
