Words for Wednesday 17/4/2024

 

 

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. 

This month I am providing the prompts.

Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected water blue as the colour of the month.  If you can include it in your story she and I will be grateful.

This week's prompts are:

• Antique
• Guide
• Celebration
• Journal
• Expressive
  

 

And/or

 

• A little bird told me
• Cat got your tongue?
• Every dog has his day
  

 

As always, have fun.

 

Sunday Selections #669

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. Huge thanks to Cie who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image. 

The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle. 

 

The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.

 

I usually run with a theme. This week it is snippets from home.

I delight in the sky and for a change these are shots of a sunset rather than a dawn.

 And a softer sunset (when my hands weren't shaking as much as they were on the earlier ones).

And then to the garden.  While I was on a break I did work in the garden.  More needs to be done.  The tuberous begonias are blooming anyway.

Autumn has arrived here and the days (and particularly the nights) are a lot cooler.

Next week I hope to take a walk and show you the arboreal firework display in my area.  I hope your week is blooming lovely.

 

Words for Wednesday 10/4/2024

 

 

 

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. 

This month I am providing the prompts.

Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected water blue as the colour of the month.  If you can include it in your story she and I will be grateful.

This week's prompts are:

• Feather
•  Bookstore
• Comfortably
• Money
• Deliver
  

 

And/or

 

• Exquisite
• Nudge
• Key
• Stepped
• World
  

 

As always, have fun.

Sunday Selections #668

 

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. Huge thanks to Cie who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image. 

The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle. 

 

The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.

 

I usually run with a theme. This week we are going back to Enlighten.  Many of the buildings in the Parliamentary Triangle were illuminated.  As I so often say, come wander with me. Slowly.

Starting at our National Library.

Then to the Portrait Gallery.

Old Parliament House (which the powers that be would prefer we call the Museum of Australian Democracy). This year the illuminations were a tribute to some of the workers at that building...

Then to Questacon - celebrating science and technology.

Finishing up at our National Library.

There is a lot to see and a lot to experience.  There are plenty of places willing to take your money or you can take as we did the free option and just wander.  And enjoy.

I hope you find light in your week.