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Sharing solitude
Memories made together
Flow clear in the heart
Returning and reliving
Dreamers cherish the moment
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on the tiny Hebridean island of Great Bernera. The sea is as clear as glass and rich in sea creatures. The sand is soft and clean and teh beaches deserted… at least when we were there.
The island is named after the Norse Bjarnar, father of a Chieftain of Lewis, Ketil Bjarnarson, and many of the place names on the island still reflect a Viking heritage, although the most common surname today amongst the two hundred and fifty or so residents is MacDonald.
The MacDonalds here are descended from a watchman of the Clann mhic Amhlaigh, the Macaulays of Lewis, who was given the island in recompense for his services. In more recent times, Great Bernera was owned by Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees, the author and former Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, an officer of the College of Arms, who corresponded with Ian Fleming and many of whose characteristics went into the creation of Fleming’s James Bond.
We knew none of this as we walked along the shoreline beneath a sky too bright for the time of night, simply enjoying the peace and beauty… and the ancient place we had come to see. But, more of that later as the tale of our journey progresses…
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Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week and to everyone who reblogged the prompt, round up and the individual resposes! A new prompt will be published later today. As always, I will reblog as many contributions as space and time allows as they come in… and all of them will be featured in the round-up next Thursday.
All the posts are listed below, so please click on the links below to read them and leave a comment for the author!
Pingbacks do not always come through… if you have written a post for this challenge and it does not appear in the round-up, please leave a link to your post in the comments and I will add it to the list.
An invitation to writephoto writers…
As there are usually too many contributions to reblog all of them every week, and so that we can get to know their writers, I would like to invite all writephoto writers to come and introduce themselves on the blog as my guest! Click here for details.
Come and join in!
Many thanks to this week’s contributors:
Ashwini Nawathe at Kaleidoscope of my Life
Tori Herbert at Tori Behind the Formatting
Karen DeMers Dowdall at Once Upon a Time…
Kathy Lauren Miller at A View to a Book
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Lorraine at Lorraine’s Frilly Freudian Slip
Anurag Bakhshi at Jagahdilmein
Linda Lee Lyberg at Charmed Chaos
Diana Wallace Peach at Myths of the Mirror
Dnyanada Kulkarni at dnspectre
Anisha at Musings of a Pseudo-writer
Rebecca Cutler at Beckie’s Mental Mess
M. Brazfield at Words Less Spoken
Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie
Teresa Smeigh at Tessa can do it
Roberta Eaton at Roberta Writes
Jim Adams at A Unique Title for Me
Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing
Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Trent P. McDonald at Trent’s World
Twisted Thoughts at Ripples on the Pond of the Internet
Anjali Sharma at Positive Side Of The Coin
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Ah, relatives 😉 I’m sure the entire time I was there I’d be attempting to whistle Mendelssohn….
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Thought you might pick up on that 😀
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Yep….
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🙂
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Thanks for the great prompt, Sue. Always fun to browse the stories and poems. ❤
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I’ve really enjoyed this week’s takes.
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Wonderful 🥰
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As always 🙂 ❤
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Thank you for the Round Up Sue! Very appreciated! Soon the weekend starts! 😉 Best wishes, Michael
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An oh the weeks before weekends make any difference to me 😉
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Hope Ani and Mr. Toad are well too.;-) Michael
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They are… though a little overheated. Ani says she is likely to turn into a hot dog… 😉
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Lol I remember Ollie’s (Beetleypete.com) favorite place against hotness, he visits the river.
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Sadly, we don’t have one anywhere near us.
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But you have the fish pool. 😉
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Nick would not allow Ani in his pond 😉
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YOur poem is lovely, Sue. Gosh, what a long list of participants.
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It seems to grow every week.
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