via Daily Prompt: Haul Creeping along the crevices of the vertical cliff, each step cleverly placed to increase balance and progress, the seed haul was increasingly laborious and stressing the oral cavity capacity. The squirrel stopped, manipulating the front five-toed paws to transport lunch using their four-toed hind feet digging into the succulents as anchor…
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Daily Prompt: Explore
via Daily Prompt: Explore As the image morphed into the vast landscape, objects in the background cleared and as in a diorama slowly became three-dimensional. Creeping lizards and clattering squirrels chirped and blood-red stone giants beckoned with a crippled claw. The need to explore overwhelmed yet the binoculars belied the distance and physical fitness such…
Daily Prompt: Radiant
via Daily Prompt: Radiant Looking at the radiant smile of that mischievous grin reaches into my old soul, recreating a long forgotten maternal love pulsing through me. How can a little whirligig of a human capture the hearts of everyone in the family, young and old, married and single? A grandchild makes fools of us…
Malibu Sunrise
Following the beauty of countless sunsets has been a lifetime commitment. Checking the timeliness of the sunset with the newly available apps has contributed to the ease of knowing when and where to be ready for the moment and be accessible for memorializing this perpetual elegance. But, I digress … Look at this impromptu moment…
My Trip to Austin
Last summer my son and his wife suggested we might want to accompany his family to Austin. I have never been there so my husband and I excitedly said yes and we would be HAPPY to help with their two-year old. We just got back yesterday and this is the only view we got of Austin…
The South in the Days After the BIG Snow
Okay I will admit that the only reason I can comment on the snow in the South is that I am an escapee from the cold and miserable weather in the Mid-Atlantic, particularly Ocean City with its biting damp winds and freezing bay and ocean waters. As we made the slow descent down the coast…
Sludge
via Daily Prompt: Sludge The media take “pen” in hand, hold camera to eye, adjust to a sense of the new reality each morning and attempt to dog-paddle through the sludge passing for current events of the day. In years past it was noble to expose sleaze and rottenness, not just wallow in the ooze…
Particular
via Daily Prompt: Particular Growing up in an emotionally chaotic environment pushes many otherwise healthy children to develop coping skills, keeping the fears of adult explosive displays of temper boxed in a cylinder rolling through their lives but moving past as a fall leaf tumbling along the sidewalk. The path is available to walk leaving…
Morning Sunrise v Man
The quintessential gift of retirement is time. In my case, I also can live beautifully wedged between the ocean and a bay. And walk. Each morning I slip the bonds of sleep reluctantly to walk to the Atlantic Ocean with my dog, catching the perpetual sunrise, unique each day in its angle on the ocean…
Pledge to Flag
This little boy captures one of the faces of America…he doesn’t care about diversity, FAKE news, religious differences, coastal politics. He is an American !
