Vision: Three Line Tales

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Juliet’s friends warned her but she laughed them off. It was common practice to date off the internet. Now, she stared nervously at their meeting place. Her stomach clenched. Dread invaded her bones. She fought flight. ‘Dam,’ she thought, ‘the devil is in the detail.’

In response to Sonya’s 3 Line tales

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Best photos of 2017: Weekly Photo Challenge

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Nature

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Family

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Pride in Achievements

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Blogging Community

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Just because I like them

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How to pick – I love skies, the Noosa River, nature, my family and so much more. Every picture means something – if only to me.  Thank you for looking and sharing 2017 with me. My joys and stresses, my environment and my blogging life. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and that the New Year brings everything you wish for and for the world, peace and understanding that we are all people sharing the same desires and dreams.

In response to Weekly Photo Challenge

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Skywatch Friday 22nd December 2017 Noosaville 2.51pm

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In response to Skywatch Friday where skies for round the world can be seen

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Bromeliad flowering: Floral Friday

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13th November small 5 fingered protruberances noted on bromeliad. Were these new pups?

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By the  11th December the ? pups had grown and were obviously flowers.

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By the 18th December more were out but obviously more to flower. I doubt it will still be flowering when we return to yoga in February.

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Darkness and Light: Thursday’s Special

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Yasur Volcano 

Lights the sky

Venting fury.

In response to Paula’s Thursday’s Special

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Camping: Six Sentence Story

Victoria opened the flap of the tent and looked up into a night sky unpolluted by light making the black blacker and the stars brighter. “Wow! I’ve never seen a sky like this before. Don’t you just love camping under the stars.”

“No,” Melanie replied. “The only stars I’m interested in being under are the 5 stars of a good hotel.”  

In response to Zoe’s prompt. star

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Winner of Flash Fiction Contest #7

Murderous musings – the judges have chosen and what good entries they were. Congratulations on winning Marjorie.

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Hats for Refugees: Friday Fictioneers

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She fell asleep watching television, reading, even at the computer. She fell asleep anywhere but in her bed.

“There’s something wrong with me. I can’t stay awake.”

“No there isn’t. You’re ninety Mum. Old people sleep a lot. Even I nod off watching telly.”

“Why don’t you knit for refugees? I can give you some wool. Scarves? Hats?” Beryl suggested in the communal dining room when Mum again complained of her narcolepsy.

She started knitting while she read and watched TV.  The pile of hats grew, eventually occluding the sun. “I don’t know how to get them to the refugees.”

Thank you to Rochelle for hosting Friday Fictioneers and Björn Rudberg for supplying the photo prompt.

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Letter R of at least 6 letters: Cee’s Fun foto Challenge

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Ravine

Mist comes in

Water goes

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Rapids

Swirling angry

smoothing rocks

kayak pummelled

Exhilaration

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Remote

Red dirt

desolate

Thank God

Fuel

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Reptile curls

Tail round the leg

a turn around the neck

Another for the arm

When set up

Connnnnstrict.

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Raptors are everywhere

Remote, ravines and rapids

Where ever there are snakes or mice

A Raptor can be seen.

In response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge promt.

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Revisiting: Wordless Wednesday

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