Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge: Imagination

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“Everything you can imagine is real.” 

Pablo Picasso

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A Word A Week: Undulating

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Undulating – applies to hills more than anything else I thought and so I found undulating hills. The last perhaps being too steep to undulate in the true sense of the word – smooth, wave-like motion. So can the sea with its waves moving in a definite smooth wave motion also be classified as undulating – ups and downs, peaks and valleys. I decide that it can.

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So perhaps ripples on a pond or river also work as they too have ups and downs, a wave-like motion.

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Music too has wave like motion, ups and downs, highs and lows and I have certainly heard the expression “she undulated to the music”.  I remember at a dear friends 60th birthday a number of us were undulating to the music. Moving in a wave like motion.

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Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch posts day 6

Time: 1705 Place Shell Petrol Station Tewantin

In queue for petrol. I didn’t think it would be busy at this time but I guess it gives me time to write something as I didn’t have time for lunch today and I didn’t know where i was going to get the time to write so this is good. I hope Roger has walked the dog by the time I get home. I hope I made it quite clear that I didn’t want to come home from dancing to have to walk. Its my one walk off. I give him two on Wednesdays when he plays golf. I don’t think my feet would take having to walk. Mustn’t forget the milk. When I get home I will have to do a post. Undulating. I don’t think I have any photos that really suit. I want to get a bit more editing done. I have to work out when I can get to the library too now that it has been organised for me to use it as a guest. Will have to finish my next book as well now I have confirmed that I am going to stick with that topic. Have to read that boring book for book club too. I have to get my enthusiasm back. Have to get that photo book done as the voucher runs out in March. I’ve just got too much to do. What should….

Bowser’s free…….

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Silent Sunday: 26 Jan 14

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Day 390: What kind of wall (is there around you)?

Walls – An inspirational post that’ll get you thinking about reconstructing your wall if you have one.

Ann Koplow's avatarThe Year(s) of Living Non-Judgmentally

Last week, somebody in therapy used a phrase I’ve heard many times:

I have a wall around me.

This person was referring to a self-protective barrier, between themselves and other people. And it made sense that the wall was there, because of past betrayals and inappropriate intrusions.

I like to reflect other people’s language back to them, because I think the words they use are very important. I also find that metaphors can help explore and uncover possibilities for change.

So I asked  questions about that wall:

What kind of wall is it?

What does it look like?

How much space is there between you and the wall?

How high up does it go?

What is it made of?

Does it change?

How does it feel to be inside the wall?

As we talked about the wall, we agreed a wall could have good sides: Walls can protect and give…

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Weekly Writing Challenge : Lunch posts Day 5

Time 1205  Cafe Doonan on the Noosa Eumundi Road.

First time we’ve been here and already Roger is talking about making it our place if the food is as good as it looks. Romantic. Where to sit. Is it going to rain? The umbrellas seem to be giving fairly good shelter or should we just go on the verandah. No, Zach will be happier in the garden and I will probably be more relaxed as well. The garden is nice. There is a palm tree that almost looks like a bottle tree except it is definitely a palm. I like the way they have a variety of different seating in the garden. Some tables with tablecloths and chairs, others low to the ground with milk crates, some with park benches and others with table and bench joined together. Something for everyone. It doesn’t suit me any more getting down on the ground. My knees don’t bend that well anymore. They have done a nice job with the garden. Tropical plantings with the odd thing of interest – like the black rhino head on the forest green board which is lying against another board. Bright purple. Green and purple. I wouldn’t have thought it would work but it has. What I really like is the bowl on the plinth with a green fern poking its way out. It must be planted low in the bowl. I wonder if it is in water. I’ll have to check when Roger finishes ordering and comes out. I should get a longer lead for Zach out of the car and then I can tie him to the palm tree and go and look at it.

Here he comes. He can get the lead.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition

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Modern ways declined

 horse not car but wait, a phone

mixing, no dying.

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Look Up, Look Down: Week 23

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From the portico of the 11-12th century Romanesque Cathedral Notre-Dame of Le Puy one looks down. From this point the long flight of 60 stairs that one needs to descend to get to the steeply descending street below cannot be seen. Once descended you can turn and look up at flight of stairs.

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Where ever you stand in Le Puy-en-Velay you either look up or you look down.

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Situated on the highest hill in the town, Corneille Peak, the cast-iron statue of Notre-Dame-de-France (The Virgin Mary) stands 53 feet high, overlooking the town and seen from many angles. The statue, presented to the town in 1860, was made from the melted down cannons which were taken in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854 -55).

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On the outskirts of town a 10-11th century church, Saint-Michel-d’Aiguilhe sits atop an irregular volcanic plug around 260 feet high. One has no choice but to look up.

Every morning, after being blessed, pilgrims begin their pilgrimage from the Cathedral to Santiago de Compostela. The cathedral was declared a Unesco World Heritage site in 1998, as part of the “Routes of Santiago de Compestala in France.”

 

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Weekly Writing Challenge: Lunch Posts Day 4

Time 1245. Place: Cafe on Gympie Terrace.

No time for writing today. I’ve probably got 4 minutes while Mum is in the bathroom. At least I got lunch today. That’s the good thing about taking Mum to lunch on Fridays I always have a nice lunch. Today I had bircher muesli topped with fruit salad. I think they must have used our old trick putting a teaspoon of sugar in a cup of lemon juice and pouring some of it over the salad. It brings out the flavour in everything. I could go to heaven and back just thinking about the muesli, yoghurt and fruit I’ve just eaten.The waiter is nice too. I don’t think we fit their mould of expensive eaters and drinkers but they haven’t treated us badly for it either. I like the way the waiters nose is large at the tip and turned up – unusual but it gives him a real sense of character. This afternoon I think I’ll get Mum to read my manuscript out loud to me and I can follow on the computer. You pick up so much more when it is read out loud. This will definitely be the final edit and after completing 5 already, there shouldn’t be too many changes.

Oh here she comes.

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Floral Friday:

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Mountains blue, fields green

Beauty on  the verge attracts

Waving stalks of blue

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