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Container of Memories

The Daily Post Photo Challenge for this week is:

Boxes, tanks, wrappers: for this week’s Photo Challenge, show us something that contains something else.

As I pondered what I might use to meet the challenge, I remembered a container of objects that I keep on the top shelf in one of my rooms. I hadn’t looked in it for years.

When I opened it and spread everything out, I was struck by how many of my life stories this container contains!

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fire/Summer

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Submitted for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:  Fire/Summer

Bastet’s Pixelventures: Spontaneous

As I was sitting in my doctor’s office this morning, I thought about Bastet’s Pixelventures newest challenge.  Our assignment this week is to take a spontaneous picture and then edit it using one of the photo editing apps.  I realized I had an opportunity to take that photo while I waited for the doctor!

This is my favorite of the pictures I took.  I used the Loma filter on the Pic Shop Lite app to come up with this version.  (Be sure to keep scrolling down after looking at the first photo!) Continue reading “Bastet’s Pixelventures: Spontaneous” →

Red, Red and More Red

Over the last year or so, I have become aware of how many red cars there are in my neighborhood.  At one point yesterday, I noticed that on my block and in the first quarter of the next block there were 8 red cars! Continue reading “Red, Red and More Red” →

Of Health Food and Butterfly Wings (Illustration)

Our Bastet’s Pixelventures Sunday Challenge for this week is to illustrate Jen Rosenberry’s delightful and thought provoking story and haiku mix, “Of Health Food and Butterfly Wings.”

I am really enjoying this new form of challenge!  (The butterfly picture and the red part of the NO symbols I used are courtesy of Wikimedia.)

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Of Health Food and Butterfly Wings

by Jen Rosenberry from Blog it or Lose it!

 Who doesn’t want to provide their five-year-old with healthy snacks?  Not this parent!  When my child took an interest in the pre-packaged apple slices I saw a quick and easy way to get my kiddo out of the cracker aisle.  How healthy!  How fast!  How neat! I grabbed those apple slices and “got out of Dodge” – fast!

When we got home, I opened a bag of those luscious-looking apple slices for my son.  He grabbed them eagerly.  He took a few bites – then made a mad dash for the kitchen and gagged into the sink.

“They’re awful, Mom!”

the best-laid plans /
o’ moms and five-year-olds – /
should have bought crackers //

The child has a hair-trigger gag reflex.  I knew better than to try again.  If he wouldn’t eat them then I’d have to do it.  They weren’t awful – but they were sour.  I wasn’t pleased, but I was resigned that the apples would not go to waste.

expecting sweetness /
finding lemon instead – /
face in a pucker //

The apples were more than bitter, though.  Had I managed to stuff a piece of the plastic packaging in my mouth along with an apple slice?  There was something non-apple on my tongue.

As they say in Star Wars, “I [had] a bad feeling about this.”  Like my son, I walked to the sink.  I grabbed a paper towel – and spit.

one naked wing /
from a luckless butterfly – /
stunned speechless //

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Bastet’s Pixelventures: Illustrate the Poem

Reflections

The winding road of life
Takes me from project to project …
I wander along these dusty roads,
Encountering friends and sometime foes,
I can’t help contemplating
Upon the purpose of my existence. Continue reading “Bastet’s Pixelventures: Illustrate the Poem” →