The Cosmic Photo Challenge: From Close Up.
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
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The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Adieu.
Up and Coming Athlete
With a stride like this she can’t be anything else.
What a pun to lead to the question UPpermost in all our minds: What are the UPcoming squares in April?
Passing it forward
One Word Sunday: Small, smaller, smallest.
Sing me no song, read me no rhyme, don’t waste my time – meme me!
It’s too long for a meme but I saw this text in a collection of funny twitters and since I stepped into a big water puddle in the bathroom two nights ago I thought it warranted a photo.
Friday Fun: Memes.
And I found an old posting of mine dealing with memes: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/28/all-those-pretty-memes/
Upscale
I’m not totally sure whether that fish can be considered upscale. But it has golden scales.
Another thing rather more upscale and yes, golden is this fishless carriage, often lovingly referred to as flatfish in Germany:
Treating myself and others
It’s still dark outside but this early morning treat gets me going. For years I couldn’t drink coffee without the most severe heartburn, now that I can drink it again without problems, I consider it special.
Henry gets special treats occasionally and he likes it just as much as the next cat. He wears his feelings on the cheek, so to speak.
And is it too early to talk of Easter? [Yes, it is! even if the stores think otherwise.]
These are chocolate treats and not really special in Germany. Around Easter time they are rather commonplace. What makes them unusual are their looks: they represent cockchafer beetles, heralds of spring, and not, as horrified English visitors have remarked, cockroaches.
Finally, only yesterday Nancy had asked for tasty treats for her A Photo a Week Challenge (great minds think alike! – check out her site and the contributions) and I posted this photo:
Friendly Friday: Special Treats.
Never go upstairs empty handed
is apparently a saying of English nannies working in the US according to the web. It is also advice that Meryl Streep credits her mother for (I can’t find a source but I remember this from an interview with her). Some stairs just seem to have been built to illustrate this.
I add a photo I’ve used before (as a square top) to drive the point home:
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