Thursday Photo Prompt- Token # WritePhoto

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

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This week’s prompt ~ Tokens

For visually challenged writers, theimage shows a feather, an autumn leaf, and two bright red berries or beads, left amongst the stones and plants by a stone that looks like a head with jewelled eyes…

~*~

Here, I have left you a special treat

A token of my sincere friendship

Please take good care of these treasures

I have shared them with you because

I know you are watching over them and me

I will come back tomorrow to see

If they are still here I will know that

You are guarding over them with care

~*~

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Thursday photo prompt: Tokens #writephoto

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Welcome to this week’s #writephoto prompt!

You can find all last week’s entries in the weekly round-up, which was published earlier today.

Throughout the week, I will feature as many of the responses here on the Daily Echo as time and space allows, usually in the order in which they are submitted.

All posts will be featured in the weekly round-up on Thursday 3rd September, linking back to the original posts of contributors.

Use the image below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, as long as it is fairly family-friendly.

Submit your link by noon (GMT) Wednesday 2nd September.

Link back to this post with a pingback (Hugh has an excellent tutorial here) and/or leave a link in the comments below, to be included in the round-up. If you link to any other post, I may miss your entry when compiling the round-up.

Use the #writephoto hashtag in your title so your posts can be found.

There is no word limit and no style requirements, except that your post must take inspiration from the image and/or the prompt word given in the title of this post.

Feel free to use #writephoto logo or include the prompt photo in your post if you wish, or you may replace it with one of your own to illustrate your work.

By participating in the #writephoto challenge, please be aware that your post may be featured as a reblog on this blog and I will link to your post for the round-up each week.

Regular contributors are also welcome to come over as my guest and introduce themselves (click here for details).

Please note: As I do not share my political opinions on this blog, please do not use the challenge as a platform from which to share yours. Party political or racially offensive posts will not be reblogged.

This week’s prompt ~ Tokens

 

For visually challenged writers, the image shows a feather, an autumn leaf and two bright red berries or beads, left amongst the stones and plants by a stone that looks like a head with jewelled eyes…

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Photo prompt round-up: Crescent #writephoto

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

A world too busy

Days and nights run together

Electric lights glare

A crescent moon guards the dawn

Peace clad in gold and silver

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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on my doorstep at dawn as the year turns. Time seems to be running away with me this week and I somehow managed to ‘lose’ a day…  Which explains why I was late with reading all the posts this week.

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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!

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!

Thank you to all Contributors!

Lisa Coleman at Our Eyes Open

The Wide Blue Yonder

Christine at Stine Writing

Anisha at Crazy Nerds

Felicia Denise

Happysoul at Live Love Laugh Learn

Jen Elvy at Poet31

Jude at Tales Told Different

Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing

The Indishe

Jemima Pett

Neha at Forgotten Meadows

Michelle Navajas at michnavs

Priya at Cozy Quiet Corner

Nima Mohan at The Tenth Zodiac

S. S. at Mindfills

Ashlie Harris

Aseem Rastogi at Transition of Thoughts

Paula Light at Light Motifs II

Jane Dougherty Writes

Robert C. Day

Lady Lee Manila

Geoff Le Pard at TanGental

Frank Hubeny at Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie

Rosemary Carlson at The Write Scribe

Dr. Crystal Grimes at Mystical Strings

Silver Stone at The Bored Side Of The Phone

Jules at Jules Pens Some Gems

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Jay Mora-Shihadeh at The Artist From The Inside Out

Goutam Dutta at Straight From The Heart

Cheryl at The Bag Lady

Di at pensitivity101

Dr. Kanya Rani Vashisht at Life is Beautiful

Balroop Singh at Emotional Shadows

Trent P. McDonald at Trent’s World

Goff James at Art, Photography and Poetry

Aishwarya at Kitty’s Verses

Lee Ann at Unfocused

Reena Saxena

Kim Blades

Mason Bushell at Mason’s Mind Menagerie

Jez Farmer at About the Jez of It

Willow Willers at willowdot21

Sadje at Keep it Alive

Iain Kelly

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The end is nigh… hopefully…

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Construction Cartoon | Construction humor, Humor, Real ...

Regular readers may recall that in April last year, an unseen leak had brought a kitchen cupboard crashing down from the wall at my son’s home. Plumbers, builders and insurance assessors were called… and by October, the kitchen wall had been torn down, ready for rebuilding.

That meant that the wetroom wall was also missing… a tad awkward for a while.

The wall was duly reinstated, but while the kitchen was more or less finished, the wetroom was in need of being stripped out and completely redone, as the expensive travertine tiles Nick had installed could not be matched. And as the floor, relaid by the same company the previous year after another leak, was not draining as it should, everything would need to come out and be redone…

“First job after the New Year,” they said.

By March, work had still not started and then lockdown stopped play altogether. To be fair, the workmen had left the place tidy, but Nick’s whole house has felt depressingly messy and grubby for over a year now, no matter what I do.

Today, work finally started again, leaving Nick with no wetroom or shower and only the most precarious access to the toilet. No matter how helpful the workmen are being, this is not a good situation for anyone, let alone someone with severe mobility issues.

I mention all this because it will mean my being present at my son’s home even longer than usual every day… plus I will be ferrying him between his home and my shower daily.

So… if I seem a little absent over the next few weeks, this will be why.

Meanwhile, as Nick looks forward to a bright, new, shiny wetroom… I ‘look forward’, with far less enthusiasm, to spring cleaning every nook and cranny of his home as soon as the workmen have finished…

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For Love ~ Geoff Le Pard #writephoto

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Professor Herman Lollop shut his eyes. The chair of the Institute had a voice that others would spend a fortune to convert into a sleep treatment, he decided. He put a finger on his ear. At least it looked like he was focusing on the translation rather than giving in to this man’s Valium vocals.

As Prendegast Something continued with a turgid rehash of Herman’s career, Herman let his mind flow back to that first moment. When inspiration struck.

Continue reading at TanGental

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Aged #midnighthaiku

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Summer’s final blaze

Bright against autumnal skies

Inner light glowing

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Marcia Meara hosts C. S. Boyack ~ #NewRelease – HMS Lanternfish

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged fromThe Write Stuff:

Hi, Everyone! Today, I’d like you to help me welcome my very special guest, C. S. Boyack, to The Write Stuff. Craig is is a friend and fellow author on the Story Empire blog, and he’s here to tell you a bit about his newest book, HMS Lanternfish. I found his information truly fascinating and can’t wait to read this one. I know you’ll see exactly what I mean, so let’s get to it. Take it away, Craig!

Marcia, I’m excited to visit your place today. Thanks for having me back, and know that my door is always open when you need to talk about one of your publications.

I’m here with a new book called HMS Lanternfish. This is the middle volume of a classic trilogy, and I expect to release the final one next year some time. Just to put a label on it, this is a pirate fantasy. It’s full of monsters, adventure, and a bit of humor.

Continue reading at The Write Stuff

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Crescent ~ Frank Hubeny #writephoto

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The moon approaches for a kiss.
Her crescent smile appears like this
And as she moves to greet the sun
She’s clothed in light til day is done.

Reblogged from

Frank Hubeny at Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

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Out of Time – a Human Story

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Sue Vincent
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CGI reconstruction of Avebury Henge, from ‘Standing with Stones’, by Rupert Soskin and Michael Bott

We were, had the world not closed ranks against the pandemic, supposed to have been running a workshop at Avebury this summer, looking at some of the less obvious sites and addressing some of the deeper questions posed by the presence within our landscape of such a remarkable ancient site. One of the questions we might have asked is why, given all the evidence to the contrary, society in general still persists in seeing our ancestors as uncultured and brutish when we have been aware, for a very long time, that this is not so.

In 1939 a sculpture was found in Stadel-Höhle im Hohlenstein. Carved of mammoth ivory, the Löwenmensch, as the lion-headed anthropomorphic sculpture became known, was determined to be some 40,000 years old and is one of the oldest known examples of figurative art in the world. It is surprisingly sophisticated and, at first glance, could easily be mistaken for an artefact of the ancient Egyptian culture some 35,000 years later. The fusion of human and animal would imply a level of thought beyond the mundane… perhaps some magic to ensure a good hunt as the usual explanation would suggest, perhaps a desire to ensure the strength of the lion for the hunter… we cannot be certain. What is clear is that already our ancestors were looking at a reality beyond the purely physical realms… a reality where such magic was possible, or where perhaps they had the intimation of a divinity behind the forces of nature.

The caves where the figurine was found also yielded other carvings, some thousands of years older still, along with evidence of instrumental music. Hardly what we generally expect from our idea of ‘cave men’. The cave paintings of Lascaux, in France, date back some 17,300 years. The swimming reindeer carving from Bruniquel is 13,000 years old. Our ancestors were evolving a more and more complex culture, with an obvious appreciation of art.

Continue reading at France & Vincent

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Dear Don: Big Wheels

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Don,

I’ve always had a fondness for the ‘outcasts’ myself. Probably comes of our ‘being at a tangent’, I would think.

Which might have something to do with the way the sheep react on occasion. Perhaps as much as the resonance of the stones…

You know that the Rowan is symbolically associated with the Goddess, the Sun and Mercury, so a Rowan switch could serve a dual and Tricksterish purpose. At one time, in Scotland, apparently, you could only use Rowan wood for ritual purposes… which accords well with its magical uses for opening the gates of vision.

We really must harvest the berries for wine, one of these days.

Oddly enough, I had a long conversation today about your string theory and the possibility of hopping from string to string. It went down a few weird pathways, as you can imagine, and ended up with Schrödinger’s cat wandering around a silently falling tree… and with our choices becoming the equivalent of neural impulses in the mind of God. Not entirely sure how we got there, but it made sense at the time.

Continue reading at France & Vincent

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