This is absolutely and beautifully thought provoking!
Too Numerous To Mention
Not Quite Macabre
A Horse With No Name
Okay it’s actually a herd and they probably have names. And (I know) A Horse With No Name is an odd coupling with my rainy day escapade but that’s how I roll… backwards.
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Weekly Photo Challenge (Combining Hues & Horizons)
These photos are recycled from older posts but they will work for the challenge(s): The Hue of You and Horizons.
This is me. These colors are the sum of my parts and they bring me peace. That along with the unfaltering hope that what lies beyond the next horizon will be all I ever dreamed of.
Lake Fork at Sunset
Mardi Gras Sky
Spying on young lover’s Lake Tawakoni
Evenings to be Savored
Another day ending Lake Tawakoni
Touching the sky at Keller Bay
Breaking Dawn South Texas
Navarro Mills Lake at Day Break
We are what we eat, what we breathe and what we believe. Eat to nourish the body, breathe to soothe the soul and believe the sky is the the limit.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite
Infinite
As in clouds and sunsets…
Massive horns…
And endless entertainment
Rain clouds forming
Sunset at ramp
Texas Longhorn peek-a-boo
Laughing gull fishing
Spoonbill sanctuary
Carpe diem y’all because nothing lasts forever
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Good Morning
Q: What does your morning look like?
A: My mornings consist of coffee (lots of coffee), a walk and being greeted by the most awesome guard dogs in the world. See how they saved me from that turkey in the background?
Thank you for keeping that vicious turkey at bay
Good morning Morning Glory
Inspired by a change in weather
I wake the flowers up ‘good morning Morning Glory’ and forecast the weather by holding my wet thumb in the air. Sometimes I lick it, sometimes I let one of the dogs do it for me.
Today’s forecast: FABULOUS. It is cloudy and seventy degrees. The wind is up, the temperature is down and there is a real honest to goodness cold front blowing in. 🙂
Gloomy skies are the perfect inspiration for dark stories so I had better get busy before the weather changes. You know the old saying “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes and it will change.” “why lick your thumb if someone else will do it for you.”
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This Aint No Shangri – La
With the recent rain in this area of Texas the ground is finally saturated blessing us with new blooms, mushrooms and a fresh ration of mosquitoes.
As I frolic in a sun drenched oak savannah dotted with Crepe Myrtle blossoms I imagine paradise. That is until the growing hum of hungry vampires converge upon me and I find myself running for shelter while Don Henley lyrics (Shangri – La) play over and over in my head. This ain’t no Shangri – La (hmm-hmm). Nobody Knows no Shangri -La (hmm-hmm).
Thanks to the weekly photo challenge for prompting this exploit.
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When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The Ants and the Grasshopper
THE ANTS were spending a fine winter’s day drying grain collected in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him, “Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?” He replied, “I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in singing.” They then said in derision: “If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.”
That cautionary tale from Aesop’s Fables [as we all know] is intended to discourage slothfulness. It does not however go on to tell children what happens to lazy, good for nothing, don’t want to work and can’t even sing worth a damn beggars. That’s when a picture is worth a thousand words.
Ant #1: I’m really looking forward to vacation.
Ant #2: Yes indeed. Ah, the rewards of labor.
Yo, I been so busy singin’ I ain’t had time to tend to business can you little dudes help a hopper out?
Sure we’ll help you out- out of your wings and your legs. Now dance you lazy bum!
More and more I am entertaining the idea of writing for children. With that in mind I added a few captions. Children like that sort of thing. 😉
Credits: The Ants and the Grasshopper: Aesop (2012-05-17). Aesop’s Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend. Kindle Edition.
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These Books Have Been Banned, Really???
Yes there really is a Banned Books Week but I am to lazy to compose any worthwhile information. So here are a couple of good links and a great post by Maggie O’Connor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_Books_Week
The Real Janna Hill in 