
Linked to Sunshine’s Macro Monday.

as Quincy M.E. used to say when he came upon a puzzling fact after an autopsy. Was it murder? We will never know unless this corpse is brought to the morgue to probe the fact..
This is my fourteenth square for Becky’s April Square Challenge.

The Chinese stachyurus is called Japanese stachyurus in Germany, which is wrong because it occurs naturally in China and Taiwan. But I guess it was named at a time when everything further than a couple of hundred kilometres was considered far, and everything in Asia lumped together as exotic.
Linked to Sunshine’s Macro Monday.

Who has the more beautiful knees?


Peep knees.

Halftime show at a rugby game – no singers or dancers but men with rubber gloves down on their knees repairing the lawn.

A scene my husband tried to recreate at home.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Needs to have the letter K anywhere in the word

Linked to Six Word Saturday. More six word offerings can be found here.

A synecdoche is a figure of speech by which a part stands for the whole.
This was true when I posted this bee to stand for the whole “earth” – the topic for The Daily Post’s photo challenge from 19 April 2017. One of my first photos for this challenge and one of my personal all time favourites.
Now this one photo stands for all the other photos which I have submitted to this challenge.
I think it is a worthy goodbye.
For more favourites and final goodbyes to The Daily Post, click here.
The sixth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.

Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.


Looking through older photos for a suitable macro shot I came upon this wintry leaf but the I think today I prefer the colours of summer:


More macros can be found at the One Word Picture Challenge.

First hoar frost of the year this morning made me long for some bright colours. The words are by Isaac Watts.
6+21+9 words for Six Word Saturday more of which here.

Ein letzter Zug bevor der Sommer endet. (Not 6 but 7 words but German has always been more wordy than English).
Check out other contributions to Six Word Saturday.