When I saw Paula’s words for August I immediately had a theme in my mind. Saint James’ Way has become very popular in the last decade amongst christian and worldly pilgrims, particularly the last stage in Spain. But many routes lead to this last stretch … Continue reading Five Words, one Theme
A pensive woman.
A natural pond.
A shorn lawn.
A fibrous ginger root.
A mottled petunia.
rotational: cherry bloom – cherry fruit – food at the market extant: the whole wall has been redone with different graffiti and pictures, the monkey is the only familiar face left Thursday Special in February
GEOMORPHOLOGIC
SCATTERED
MUSICAL
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BOUNDED
Pick a Word in September for Paula’s Thursday Special
While this gull is flying into the infinite distance
the Vedra is making shoreward, towards Roker Beach.
Thirty years earlier we were on the opposite side of the world, at the lagoon of Nature’s Valley near Plettenberg Baai in South Africa.
I wear my hair short and I can style it without much fuss. But folk with proper manes might rely on the help of others to look their best.
I also don’t care for cigarettes or pipes but the Odenwälder Hannes is smoking day in, day out.
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in August
This post will be linked coming Monday to Jez’ Water, Water Everywhere Challenge. Surging: The Andernach geyser is the highest cold-water geyser in the world, reaching between 30 and 60 metres. A cold-water geyser surges up similar to a hot-water geyser, except that CO2-bubbles drive the eruptions … Continue reading Water, Water Everywhere in June
And all of the above: A flaming skyline ablaze. Salient bastion against the night. Thursday Special: Pick a Word – April 2022
Some mind-sets do not merit praise.
Some people still won’t wear masks and won’t get vaccinated. That’s simply immature behaviour.
This young mallard is already showing signs of maturing and will do so given enough time.
It’s not quite a melting clock of Salvatore Dali but it has a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey quality about it and yet still showing the passing of time.
Just as this fish which is quite useful. It can separate egg yolks from egg whites. So functional and practical it is, but not really praiseworthy.
The words on the gravestone of Friedrich Ebert, the first democratically elected president of Germany. read: “The aim of my endeavour is the welfare of the people.”
His life is testament to his intentions which brings us back to the top of the page.
befriending Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word – December
A solitary bird not up a creek but up a tree. This is the cold water geysir in Andernach, the largest cold water geysir in the world. It errupts so regularly that tourist visits are timed around it. The erruptions are quotidian. Lorsch Abbey, dating … Continue reading Another Fiver
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