Use the image below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT) Wednesday 6th February and link back to this post with a pingback to be included in the round-up. There is no word limit and no style requirements, except to keep it fairly family friendly.
For visually challenged writers, the image shows a formal English rose garden in bloom. Four paths, bordered with lavender, lead to the centre of the garden, where a weping standard rose cascades over a seat that is built around its trunk .
All posts will be featured in the round-up on Thursday February 7th at 10am GMT, linking back to the original posts of contributors. Throughout the week I will feature as many of the responses here on the Daily Echo as space allows and (more or less) in the order in which they come in.
You can find all last week’s entries in the weekly round-up. Please visit and read the stories and poems and explore the sites of their writers. I will feature as many contributions as I can on the blog during the week.
Please link your post to this by creating a pingback. If you are unsure of how to create a pingback, Hugh has an excellent tutorial here.
Pingbacks need to be manually approved, so either check back to make sure that the pingback has appeared or simply copy and paste your link into the comments section of this post.
Feel free to use #writephoto logo or include the prompt photo in your post if you wish or you can replace it with one of your own to illustrate your work. Don’t forget to use the #writephoto hashtag in your title so your posts can be found.
Meanwhile, I would like to invite all writephoto regulars to come and introduce themselves on the blog as my guest!
Have fun!
Lovely reminder that summer really does exist. Can’t fit this one in with the narrative but if my brain thaws out I might find a different story for it 🙂
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It was too cold for another winter scene 😉
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I’m warming my hands on that photo 🙂
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We rather need to here too 🙂
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It’s really only wet here, but since there’s been no sun the indoors hasn’t warmed up. Like living inside a fridge.
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The dog likes the door open, so even with heating, it is not much better here as I don’t see the point in heating up the garden 😉
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No, with global warming it wouldn’t be fair to add to its problems 🙂
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…so I wear a blanket until the dog snores 😉
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Why does she like having the door open? So she can keep an eye on the birds/neighbours/cats/tractors etc?
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Foxes, cows, tractors and neighbours… but birds, mostly. She guards the bird feeder from them. Likes to be half in, half out… warm rump, cold nose.
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Hmm. Have you thought of having a fake bird feeder indoors?
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Now that’s an idea… but I think she’d miss chasing pigeons 😉
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There’s no pleasing some folk 🙂
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Thank you for beautiful picture Sue, my take on same https://positivesideofcoin.com/2019/01/31/gods-love/
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Thanks, Anjali 🙂
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Here’s mine: https://poweredbyrobots.com/2019/01/31/life-after-the-state/
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Thanks, James 🙂
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A lovely summer image on a cold day 💜
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We need a bit of warmth 😉
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We certainly Do! 💜
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I know it’s a bright happy summer-y picture, but….!
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That’s what they are for 😉
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Thanks, Reena.
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Hi Sue, it looks like a lovely place. And a bit of warmth on a frigid day like today! Here is my story for the week: https://trentsworldblog.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/fragrance-writephoto/
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That’s what I thought, Trent…it is way too cold outside for anything but a summery image 😉
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Reblogged this on Campbells World.
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Thank you for sharing, Patty.
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Story started, maybe not finished, I’m not sure. I can’t get the photo this week. I just get a web page file rather than the photo.
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That’s a bit weird… but then, this IS WP 😉
Thanks Jane.
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I seem to remember WP going funny about uploading pictures before. It will probably have reverted to normal by next week.
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They’re obviously busy with all the proposed ‘improvements’ again…
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I was hoping they’d decide their time could be spent more usefully.
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No such luck, I’m afraid…
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Took a screen shot and it worked, so panic over.
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What a lovely photo! It’s freezing here and this is the perfect picture to warm me up! ❤
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We need the warmth here too ❤
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Deja vu?
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It’s thursday already?
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Almost February too… 😀
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I’m just now reading this at 2:43PM, so I have missed the deadline but I love the idea and this picture is absolutely lovely! Maybe next time….
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The prompt runs until next Wednesday, Wanda, so there is still time 🙂
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Obviously, I can’t read a calendar. LOL
Thank you!
I’ll jump in on this.
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Wonderful 🙂
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Here’s my post
Thank you!
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Thanks, Wanda 🙂
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Thank you, Sue!
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This was so much fun. So glad to be here!! Thank you for the venue and this amazing prompt!!
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Thanks, Violet.
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I’m in!
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Thank you 🙂
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Here’s my entry for the week Sue: https://jagahdilmein.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/the-fragrance-of-life/
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Thanks, Anurag 🙂
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A welcome image in our current cold snap,. Sue. It’s warmed up my imagination even if my toes are frozen! here’s my small offering: http://writinginnorthnorfolk.com/2019/02/01/at-the-crossroads/
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We needed a bit of warmth today 🙂
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Thanks Sue for a lovely picture. I thought of bringing in a crime angle here.
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Thank you 🙂
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Hello, I’ve just discovered your wonderful blog and inspiring visual prompts. Here is my offering:
Experience
I will not speak about the greens
Painting the sky with varied hues,
I will not draw rose thorns
To try to show you
Or talk of the riot
Of violets and blues,
Quietly, I will close my eyes
And experience this with you,
Where you, walk unseeing
Yet surely between soft lines
Of lavender, its scent a guide
As, after you, I’m wheeling,
Watching, letting you decide,
After all your days of gardening
The instinct is still there,
Taking your cues from textures
And the charted perfumed air,
White roses, you know them,
You used to grow them
Near the apple tree
On land tilled by your fingers
Into past Springs’ strawberries,
You tell me by a quiver of breath
Of how it felt to dig those beds,
Your brief smile says you’re there again
In this garden,
Where I roll beside you
As pollinators buzz and flit
Towards the island in the path,
Wind teasing our hair,
Suddenly, we halt and laugh,
Mirth jolts up from who knows where,
I tell you of a bench beneath
The roses’ sphere where bees
Whisper of nectar in ciphers
While we taste the sweet
Of afternoon embers,
Here we will sit,
Thanking the hands that grew
A place we can enjoy together,
I will close my eyes
And experience this with you.
Antonia Sara Zenkevitch
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This is beautiful, Antonia, thank you. I will include it in the round-up. The idea, though, is to post the piece on your own blog and link back so that it encourages new readers to visit your blog 🙂
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Thanks Sue, I will be re-posting it on my blog shortly 🙂
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Lovely, Antonia. I’ll link to it there 🙂
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It is posted now. Many thanks 🙂
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Thanks, Antonia, I’ve amended the links to direct readers to your blog 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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a quatern from me 🙂
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Thanks, Lady Lee 🙂
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What fun, I managed to turn your lovely photograph into something dark. Now, I really think that is talent [giggle] https://robertawrites235681907.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/writephoto-fragrance/
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😀
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Thanks, Robbie 🙂
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Hi Sue, your prompt took me into the world of first love, which remains a dream! Thanks for the inspiration.
https://balroop2013.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/memories-and-moments/
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Thanks, Balroop 🙂
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Sue, your photo reminded me of a poem I once recited. I could not shake the link between the image and the poem, so I used them both. 😊
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Thanks, Jo.
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Hello; I’m back.
I was going to write a new piece on the prompt but decided to post feature something that I already wrote. it fits perfectly, not about a garden’s fragrance but the fragrance of another kind.
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Thank you.
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Another beautiful photo prompt to inspire our imaginations. Here is mine.
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Thanks, Willow x
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Thanks, Willow 🙂
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💜
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Hey Sue! 🙂
Here’s my take on the prompt:
Happy reading! 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Here goes my take on the effervescent prompt!
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Thank you 🙂
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This is a great prompt. I’ve been away from my blog for a time and very enthused about participating here. Thank you. Thank you. https://colderlake.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/writephoto-yearn/
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Thanks for coming over 🙂
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Thank you for this prompt Sue.
https://helenevaillant.com/2019/02/02/rose-and-lavender/
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Thanks, Hélène.
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Two from the Oracle
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Thank you, Kerfe.
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Thanks, Jordis.
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Hi Sue, Here is my link for the photo prompt Fragrant
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Thanks, Christine 🙂
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Thank you.
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Thanks Sue, such a beautiful photo.
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🙂
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thanks Sue.
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Thanks, Tina.
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Another great picture.
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Thanks, Michele.
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Lovely photo, Sue. We can do with some warmth. Here’s my contribution.
https://aheartforafrica641064503.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/the-allertons-fragrant-writephoto/
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Thank you 🙂
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Hi Sue,
A beautiful photo. I would love to be there right now. Here’s my story.
Adele
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Thanks, Adele.
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My entry is:- https://freshdaisiesdotme.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/midsummer-blooms/
I don’t know how to put it on your photo prompt!
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You did it 🙂
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Really! Will you count my write up as a valid entry to this prompt. I’m so delighted!
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Yes, of course… but please try and leave a link back to the prompt in your post if you participate again, otherwise I may not know it is there. There are instructions on how to do that in the prompt post. 🙂
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Sure I will do that! Thanks a million for considering 😊
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Sure! Thanks a million for considering 😊
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