For Sonya”s Three Line Tale Challenge, inspired by this photo.
Photo by Nederland
She is tightly wound
tattered, frayed on the edges,
but never broken.kat ~ 26 May 2016
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Echoes of my Neighborhood
It’s Thursday and time to share some snippets from my world. Thanks to my friend Jacqueline for hosting this weekly invitation: Echoes of my Neighborhood.
This week I’m thinking trees. I love trees. Yes, I’m a tree hugger. Trees have stories to tell. Happy Thursday then…and do yourself a favor…hug a tree! ❤️
Starting this “tree party” with my latest obsessiion…the Faerie tree. she happens to also be a Dogwood. I love Dogwoods! ❤️
This lovely lady is Magnolia.
This great dame resides in Highland Park. She’s my favorite at the park.
This beauty is near the entrance of my office.
A posthumous remembrance…this lovely Weeping Cherry once graced the roundabout on my street. A derecho took her down.
From my weekend in Savannah.
The next four live along the Creeper Trail in Abington, Virginia
A frosty Fir tree in my neighbor’s yard next to my front porch.
Also my neighbor’s tree…it’s a “bottle tree”! 😊
…and a few blocks away…a stuffed animal tree. it’s proprietor claims she sought to beautify an ugly tall stump by hanging a few stuffed animals on it. over the years…yes years! people have given her more stuffed animals and the rest is history! An attempt to beautify an eyesore has now become one!
…and my own creation…digitally enhanced from my back yard…the tree with a bird shaped leaf in winter.
Trrremmbllling Tuffets!
For TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – Prompt Word: Footstool. For my haiku, I’m using a synonym…Tuffet. It is a footstool made of cloth.
Was it Miss Muffet
who fancied tufted tuffets?
Or was it Spider!kat ~ 23 May 2016
In Retrospect
A Haiku for Haiku Horizon’s Weekly Challenge. This week the prompt is: “Rest”.
Photo from Wikipedia Commons
A piece of advice
I might give my younger self…
worry less, rest more.kat ~ 23 May 2016
Inspissate – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
Today’s Word of the Day from Dictionary.com is Inspissate. Seems like a fairly cut and dried (pun intended) word. Think making gravy…adding a bit of cornstarch or flour and heat for thickening. At least that was my first take:
Inspissate Haiku
Try adding cornstarch
to inspissate thin gravy
don’t forget to stir!
But then I googled the word and found this it is heavily (pun intended) used in the medical field when referring to bodily secretions and excretions thickened through dehydration or disease. (See the google suggestions below).
Of course I had to share my findings with you! You’re welcome! (…evil grin…) Think of me next time you sit down to a lovely meal with a steaming boat of savory, thick, or rather, inspissated gravy and remember that in some odd linguistic twist…we are what we eat…what goes up must come down…what goes in, generally comes out. EWWWW! I best drop off this spiral before I drown in this inspissating quicksand of ickiness! If there is such a thing as a word earworm…this is it!
Have a great weekend! 🙂
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