Changing of the guard
From life through death to rebirth
The seasons turning
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken at the Imbolc celebrations in Marsden, West Yorkshire, a few years ago. The night is lit with flames, green, white and gold, as the Frost Giant is challenged and defeated by the Green Man, reclaiming the earth for the coming of spring. And, when that battle is won… a Silver Fox echoes that challenge, facing a giant Crow, as Mister Fox and the Demon Dogs contend for the land…
Imbolc signifies the coming of spring, but today is the Eve of Beltane which heralds the coming of summer. And, while the many traditional festivals that mark this change of season will be absent this year, Nature herself is celebrating the return of the fertile sun.
Thank you to everyone who took part, visited or reblogged the posts or left comments for their authors.
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!
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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!
Thank you to all Contributors!
Hugh Roberts at Hugh’s Views and News
Nima Mohan at The Tenth Zodiac
Honoré Dupuis at Of Glass and Paper
Roberta Eaton at Roberta Writes
Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing
Kerfe Roig at K- Lines that Aim to Be
Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie
Daisybala at freshdaisiesdotme
Christine Bialczak at Stine Writing
Brian F. Kirkham at The Inkwell
Aseem Rastogi at Transition of Thoughts
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Another cracker of a bunch, Sue!
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Absolutely, Ritu 🙂
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Reblogged this on Art, Photography and Poetry.
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Thank you, Goff.
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Pleasure. Happy Day.
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If a wet one 😉
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Rained for days here. Clearing now.
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Wish it would clear here a bit too 🙂
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Sun shining brightly here at the moment. Hope it will soon for you too.
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I hope so too 🙂
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Fingers crossed.
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thanks Sue
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🙂
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It was a very intriguing photo.
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Wallie and I agree — very interesting photo!
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👍
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And now you know its story 🙂
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Yes! 🙂
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A lot of stories in this picture though.
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There are.
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Reblogged this on Campbells World.
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Thanks for sharing, Patty.
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Such a great prompt and wonderfully diverse responses. Well done.
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So many different takes on this one 🙂
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Beautiful
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Thanks, Willow x
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Thank you to all the contributors. As different they sometimes were, as wonderful to read. Michael
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A varied crop this week 🙂
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So entertaining and interesting too. Thank you, Sue!
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