7 Days of Nature Photo Challenge: Day One: On the Rocks

Posted in 7 Days of Nature Photo Challenge: Day One
Photography & Poetry & Humour

Posted in response to Lucile De Godoy’s challenge for “Seven Days of Nature challenge”.
Go and see Lucile’s excellent photography on her site!

The challenge rule is simple: Share a nature shot for seven days and nominate a new blogger for the challenge.

I will nominate Sylvain Laundry for this challenge: Sylvain, Please feel free to participate (or not); In any case, check out his excellent site!

 

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“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water” Rabindranath Tagore

7 Days of Nature Photo Challenge: Day One: On the Rocks

Against the smoothed rocks
Is the water happily splashing
High in the air go flying my crocks
When I’m barefoot in the sand dashing

Close to the water’s edge
I once again my allegiance pledge
Wowing, this year my toe to dip
Even if it means biting the lip

Come high hell or cold water
Because it may never get hotter
In the ocean I will swim
Even if my eyesight will dim

After all, it is Spring Time!

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Frosted Forest (7-Day Nature Photo Challenge)

Posted in 7-Day Nature Photo Challenge, Day One
Photography, Poetry, Tale, Humour

* Thanks for the nomination SimpleDimple! Check out this great site: Giggles and Tales.
* The rules are pretty simple: Post one nature photo for seven (7) days and nominate another great pic-snapper to join the competition.

* I nominate Lucile from Bridging Lacunas

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“Nothing burns like the cold.” George R.R. Martin

Frosted Forest

The snow was slowly floating
The trees with a powdery white cloaking
Like a sugar candy coating
As Mother Nature watched gloating

“Look how pretty I made it!
I don’t care one shit,
If the humans don’t see the fit.

It’s pretty and clean,
Most gorgeous thing they ever seen!

So what if it is freezing cold
And the ever rising wind blows!
Better suck it and enjoy,
For this, is my utter ploy!”

And so the little minions of Earth
Went forth in both fear or mirth
After all, how long could it be before the birth
Of summer

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Sunrise over Suburbia

Posted in Photography 101: Home (Day One)

Sunrise-over-Suburbia--(DAYONE)

“Home is where the heart is?”

Sunrise over Suburbia

The yellow sunrise above the rooftops
Residents slowly leaving for their jobs
When the last of them away have run
And silence has taken over the fun
Another week in Suburbia has begun

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I am a writer and therefore automatically a suspicious character (3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge)

Posted in 3 Day Quote Challenge
3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge Part Two, Day One

Rules of the Challenge:

* Thank the blogger who nominated you
* Publish 3 quotes on 3 consecutive days on your blog. It can be your own, or from a book, movie or from anyone who inspires you.
* Nominate 3 more bloggers to carry on this endeavor.

Thank you Janice for including me in this challenge!

My nominees are: Glitchy Artist, Aishwarya and Azmofo 

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“Puns are the highest form of literature” Alfred Hitchcock

I am a writer and therefore automatically a suspicious character

I have adopted a quote from a great director and certainly a personality in his own right, Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock.

Using the quote on my blog main page, I consider it to be the utmost homage to Hitchcock. And as life would have it, the quote fits my own personality like a glove 😉

“I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.” Alfred Hitchcock

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I write, therefore I am

Writing 101, Day One, I write because . . .

“Why do you write? This is a question you can answer again and again, as your response might evolve over time. You may have already addressed it in a previous blog post. Some bloggers also use this question, and variations of it, to shape their bios and About pages. Why am I here? Who am I? Why do I blog?”

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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing” Benjamin Franklin

I write, therefore I am

I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t writing.

I did my first “screenplay” at the age of five with crayons and forced my whole family to watch the Christmas play I wrote, produced and even acted in too! Later in my teens, I started writing fan fiction for my favourite shows on television, way before the internet, fan fiction as such and even personal computers were invented. I loved the weekly challenges for writing in school and of course, I was a book junkie too.

Writing for me has been sporadic at best and I mostly consider myself a closet writer. I am in the closet, out of the closet, back in and now finally out again, publishing on the internet as much and as often as humanly possible 😉

I am also a poet, and did not know it: True in many ways, as I write from anything and everything. My inspiration can be a phrase I heard on the lift ride or something from the morning radio. Mainly, these days, I get inspired from the pictures I take.

For me, personally, writing is an creative outlet for the mundane working day. If I do not write, I am be a very, very, very cranky person ;P

My motto is: A poem a day, keeps the mental doctor away!
The second motto is: Write more, complain less!

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I follow these guidelines every day, no matter if it is a holiday or working day. If it shines or rains, I’ll be there, in the internet, writing on my blog!

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Keep calm and keep on writing!

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Blogging 201, Day 1: Understanding Your Theme

Blogging 201, Day 1: Understanding Your Theme

“Your theme is the foundation of your blog’s layout. To start, let’s make sure we understand what our themes can do.

Today’s takeaways: Where to find our theme’s details, what all those features and functions do, and how to find theme-spiration.”

Action time! After finding your theme’s details, try one new feature you never realized your theme had — a template, a specialized theme option, a post format. You can remove it if it doesn’t float your boat, but give it a try!

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“Don’t procrastinate. If you want to blog, then blog.” Fritz Chery

Blogging 201, Day 1: Understanding Your Theme

* Finding your theme’s details
* Understanding theme features
* Finding theme inspiration

“Keep it simple stupid” is a great guideline to follow for any occasion. How many times have you stumbled into a blog where there are lots of thing-a-magics and doo-das and you scroll, scroll, scroll and there is never an end in sight…

So for myself, especially taking lots of photographs, I love the black and white theme, which brings out the best especially for colour pictures. I also like a structured theme, where, at least on the main page, there is a clear intro in one frame and the title with links -frame will follow through out the pages. In addition, the widgets frame runs smoothly on one side of the page.

Today, I dared to venture with my blog and tried of for size the “Cubic” and the “Intergalactic” themes, as they both looked great in the demo. I have also tried out several themes on my blog before and ran with them until I found the current one. At the end of the experiment, I returned back to the “old faithful” theme of “The Visual Theme”.

Keep calm and keep on blogging!

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