Sounds almost like a Harry Potter spell.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Fluid

The first ones can be seen in the meadow so pick up a blowball, purse your lips and …
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Blow

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Goodbye/Hello.

A colour collage based on this butterfly

or this template

Click here to see what others have done with these colours.
For the Cosmic Photo Challenge: 50 shades of grey I tried to pick photos which were naturally (almost) monochrome, either because of the subject or because of the quality of the prevailing light.
For more shades of grey, click here.
Linked to I’m a fan of … #64. More fanatical photos are linked here.

Linked to Color your World. For more photos with the shade dandelion, click here.

Linked to Sunshine’s Macro Monday.


The title is the beginning of the poem “Phases” by Hermann Hesse (Stufen), one of the best known and most quoted poems in German. It goes on to extol the virtues of endings and their inherent new beginnings and ends with “Courage my heart, take leave and fare thee well.”
This is linked to A Photo a Week Challenge: Endings.