IT CAME FROM AFAR

First in this week…

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The mass rolled towards them from afar. She came from the snow-peaked mountains, tumbling over the hills, obscuring the clear blue sky.

‘How long?’

‘A day, at most.’

‘We should go.’

‘She will find us. There is no point in running.’

The darkness would one day cover the whole world. The light would be blocked out. The winter would take hold.

‘There is nothing we can do?’

‘We had our chance. If we had acted decades ago…’

As it grew nearer, the leaves fell from the trees, wilting and dying. Nature decayed, snow and ice covered the land. They accepted their fate. The reign of the humans would end with them.

‘It has been a good life.’

‘It has, but at such a cost.’

‘Regrets?’

‘Only in our ending.’

They embraced, watching their fate approach. The evil power of the Snow Queen enveloped them. They crystallised, their blood stilled in their…

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Thursday photo prompt: Afar #writephoto

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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.

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 4th December 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.

**Please note that many people on WordPress are having problems with pingbacks not getting through. They do need to be approved manually before they show on the post here, but to be sure,  please also leave a comment on this post, linking back to your response to the prompt so that I know you have posted. **

For visually challenged writers, the image shows green fields leading to distant, snow-covered hills, lit with the pink-gold glow of sunset.

All posts will be featured in the round-up on Thursday, December 5th 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. Please be aware that I tend to schedule reblogs in advance and these spaces fill quickly so an early submission is more likely to get reblogged.

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.

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.

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Come and introduce yourself!

An open invitation to writephoto contributors…

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 regulars to come and introduce themselves on the blog as my guest! ‘Regulars’ does not mean you have to take part every week… Click here for details

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Photo prompt round-up: Light #writephoto

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Winter’s heart opens

Frosting the world with magic

A delicate touch

Boughs limned in pristine beauty

Accepting the gift of light

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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in the woods at Ashridge last winter.

It was the most perfect morning… utterly magical… and I couldn’t resist taking my son and the camera out to play.

We followed the same route we had taken on a previous trip to see the bluebells is spring… a day when Nick, who cannot walk, had danced on the hilltops. Another magical day.

This time though, although the landscape was almost Narnian, the Lion was hidden beneath a blanket of snow.

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Whipsnade Lion

Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week and to everyone who reblogged the prompt, round up and the individual responses! 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:

Jan Malique at Strange Goings on in the Shed

Phillip Knight Scott at Reverie in Reverse

Ken Gierke at rivrvlogr

Bobby Fairfield at When the pen takes control

Jen Goldie at Starlight and Moonbeams

Lady Lee Manila

Daisybala at freshdaisiesdotme

Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing

Annette Rochelle Aben

Kerfe Roig at K- Lines that Aim to Be

Laura Denise at Light in the Lens

Geoff Le Pard at TanGental

Deborah at A Wise Woman’s Journey

Rebecca Cutler at Beckie’s Mental Mess

Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie

Roberta Eaton at Roberta Writes

Pratibha at Prat’s Corner

Di at pensitivity101

Trent P. McDonald at Trent’s World

Cheryl at The Bag Lady

Sadje at Keep it Alive

Rosemary Carlson, Writer

Luccia Gray at Re-reading Jane Eyre

Fandango at This, That and the Other

Taylor Grace from The Broken Inside of Me in the comments

Neel Anil Panicker

Teresa Smeigh at Tessa can do it

Leanne Lieu at Read and Write Here

Jane Dougherty Writes

Kittysverses

Na’ama Yehuda

Goff James at Art, Photography and Poetry

Alethea Kehas at The Light Behind the Story

Willow Willers at willowdot21

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Honoré Dupuis at Of Glass and Paper

Reena Saxena

Iain Kelly

Anjali Sharma at Positive Side Of The Coin

Leena from Soul Connection with a response to a previous prompt

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Golden

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Gallant blush of dawn

Imprisoned by winter’s bars

Promise of rebirth

Time’s fleeting finality

Made a mockery by gold

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Hiabun for Colleen’s poetry challange

 

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If You Go Down To The Woods Today… Geoff Le Pard #writephoto

If Jerome Corbel needed inspiration, and lately he’d needed a lot his allotment was his go to happy place. But Donald McJohn was a persistent little bugger and when he said, ‘Walk with me’, even suggesting you were worried that your cabbages weren’t red enough didn’t cut it as an excuse.

Indeed, Jerome thought, just mentioning his allotment these febrile days seemed to put Donald on edge. Take yesterday. All he’d said was he needed to check on how the leeks were faring and Donald had gone all Gulag on him.

And now this walk.

Continue reading at TanGental

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Other #midnighthaiku

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The otherworld calls

Alternate reality

Beyond the portal

Gates of perception open

When the world is left behind

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Heartfire 4 am ~ Steve Tanham

I sometimes wonder if the fire is kin to what I am within

Is skin to what I am within – when darkness lures

A hiss of icy night and eyes too tired to find delight

The swishing of the white tail, paws on icy grass

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The tiny crunch – dark whisper, pulls me there

The velvet black surrounds – foolish!

My skin protests the frozen kiss

With breathing centred in the crackling heartfire’s hiss

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Undimmed ~ Deborah #writephoto

even through

thick bough of tree

light shines undaunted

 

Reblogged from A Wise Woman’s Journey

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A very strange grave in a suburban churchyard: Pinner’s ‘floating coffin’ ~ Caroline Swan

Reblogged from Flickering Lamps:

One of the joys of graveyard exploration is the discovery of unusual graves and memorials – those with eccentric designs or strange stories attached to them.  The imposing monument we’re looking at today, which towers above its neighbours in a pretty churchyard in the suburb of Pinner, definitely ranks as one of the strangest in Greater London – both for its design, and for the stories told about it.

It’s a long time since I was in Pinner – at least twenty years.  When I was a child, my family stayed here a couple of times, and my first experience of the London Underground was the Metropolitan Line train rattling along its long route from Pinner towards the middle of London.  Pinner’s centre is full of historic buildings – many of those on the high street were built in the 16th Century, and this history is celebrated with many plaques and signs informing the visitor of the great age of these buildings.

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#Bookreview: Artful Alchemy: Physically Challenged Fiber Artists Creating edited by Anne Copeland

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Book reviews

What Amazon says

This book contains a collection of beautiful art, plus the personal stories of the 23 multi-talented contributors. The common thread through their lives is that each woman has overcome physical and other challenges to become a successful artist in the textile medium.

My review

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I purchased this book about the artwork created by twenty three physically challenged artists, and it really exceeded any expectations I might have had. Each of the twenty three contributors to this anthology has provided some background to their particular disability and how it effects them in their daily lives. The disabilities are far ranging and most people will have come across at least one, if not more, of them in their daily interactions.

Some of the artists are blind or deaf, some were born disabled or became disabled through diseases like polio or cancer, one…

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