Daily Archives: July 4, 2019

Lifespan ~ Iain Kelly #writephoto

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The span of their lives ran together. Born within minutes of each other in the same city, they attended different schools separated by only one block, divided more by religious difference than geography. They found each other through mutual friends … Continue reading →

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Span ~ Twisted Thoughts #writephoto

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

First in this week, in the comments, from Twisted Thoughts: White water rushing Over rocks just beneath the surface A peaceful lullaby

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Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 5) – Stone in the Sky ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

A Pictish stone so large, it needs its own ‘hangar’. You can’t miss Sueno’s stone. It sits on its own plateau, just off the old main road between Findhorn and Forres; now bypassed. You see its ‘hangar’ first, then realise … Continue reading →

Posted in The Silent Eye | Tagged Burghead Headland, Burghead Well, Findhorn, Forres, Grantown-on-Spey, Holy Wells, Pentagram, Phi, pictish, Pictish stones, Picts, River Spey, Scotland, Shadwick Stone, Strathallan | Leave a comment

Thursday photo prompt: Span #writephoto

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Welcome to this week’s writephoto prompt. If you know where the prompt photo was taken, please keep it to yourself until the prompt has closed so that imaginations can play without preconceptions 🙂 Use the image below as inspiration to … Continue reading →

Posted in photo prompt, Photography, Poetry | Tagged fantasy, fiction, flash fiction, Humour, imagination, mystery, short story, symbolism, writing prompt | 116 Comments

Photo prompt round-up: Open #writephoto

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* From start to finish Can there be another way Journeys will unfold Fear of the threshold halts us Possibilities beckon * The photo for this week’s prompt was taken at Scalan seminary during the recent Silent Eye weekend in … Continue reading →

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Breaking barriers…

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Ten years ago today, July 4th 2009, I learned to fear answering the telephone. Four words changed the lives of everyone in our little family and that of many of our friends. My son, over a hundred miles away in … Continue reading →

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‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Whirligig… Stuart France

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* As the weekened progressed we were to work our way around ‘the limbs’ of an elemental pentagram. * Two sites from the region were given over to each element. * In the first we would consider the element in … Continue reading →