The Daily Post: (Extra)ordinary Part One

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October: Month of wellingtons and mackintoshes
Photography and Poetry

+ PHOTO CHALLENGE: (Extra)ordinary

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “(Extra)ordinary.”

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“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude” Brene Brown

The Daily Post: (Extra)ordinary Part One

Early morning
Misty weather
Softly adorning
Like a feather
The nature silent
Without movement
The early bird
Only to be heard
Nothing else
Breaks the silence
Of the morning mist

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Monday with(out) Coffee (Extra)ordinary

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October: Month of wellingtons and mackintoshes
Photography and Poetry
And, yet another homage to Coffee ;P

+ PHOTO CHALLENGE: (Extra)ordinary

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “(Extra)ordinary.”

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“I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!” Howard Schultz

Monday with(out) Coffee

What is a Monday
But a slow day of Sunday
Without coffee
It’s just a faded copy

It’s just what you seek
So, don’t hesitate
Go ahead, start the week
With a fresh, clean slate

Make your way
To the coffee maker
For a while stay
After all,
You deserved a break

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Monday Morning Sunrise

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Poetry and Photography
Posted in response to The Clinic-Photo Rehab hosted by Lucile De Godoy

 

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“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” Jo Walton

Monday Morning Sunrise

Standing there, stunned
As the early morning sun
Making quite the display
When, lighting up the skies
In its unique and fiery way

But oh, how time flies
Still, wishing to remain
For a little while at least
But, unfortunately, duty calls
Oh, that necessary beast

Slowly making my way
To another mundane Monday
Secretly hoping of tomorrow
For another piece of beauty
To let me borrow

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Mundane Monday, 2015-10-19

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Poetry and Photography
Photo challenge for PhoTrabloggers Mundane Monday

“This is a challenge created to find beauty in almost everything. The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.”

 

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“Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that” Benedict Cumberbatch

Mundane Monday, 2015-10-19

She is standing tall
Hoping never to fall
Slicing the sky
Beautiful to the eye
In silver and blue
Didn’t have a clue
Until the sun’s reflection
Caught my attention
A mundane object?
Or something perfect?

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Photo Rehab, The Clinic: Week 42 Wrap Up

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Photo Rehab, The Clinic: Week 42 Wrap Up

“In December 2014, after completing the Photo101 course, I opened the Photo Rehab Event in this blog, a ‘healing clinic’, for all of us who love photography (hobbyists, amateurs, pro-shooters and enthusiasts) who missed the course and daily interaction with other photobloggers” Lucile De Godoy

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Check out all the magnificent photographs for this week from Lucile’s site:

Week 42: Wrap up Photo101 Rehab

Also featured Rantings Of A Third Kind:

Gun from Rantings of a Third Kind brings one of my favorites images, the glorious sunrise, and serene poetry to appreciate it fully.

October Sunrise, Part One

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October Sunrise, Part Two

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October Moon

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October: Month of wellingtons and mackintoshes
Photography and Poetry

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“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain

October Moon

Shiny objects in the sky
Was it an unidentified fly by
Or just the crescent moon up high
Shining its light in this fool’s eye

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SL WEEK 15: Communications; Lesson in Water Guns

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Photo Challenge by SYLVAIN LANDRY
A response to Sylvain’s challenge theme of communications
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something” Plato

SL WEEK 15: Communications; Lesson in Water Guns

“So listen carefully, because I shall say this only once”

Others nodding in unison.

“This is the safety, once you pull it back, you can shoot.”

Everyone staring in awe and with a bewildered look on their faces.

“You know what a safety is?”

“Um…” “Um” “No?”

“OK, I will show you one more time. Now watch and listen carefully!”

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SL WEEK 15: Communications; Hot Gossip

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Photo Challenge by SYLVAIN LANDRY
A response to Sylvain’s challenge theme of communications

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“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” George Bernard Shaw

SL WEEK 15: Communications; Hot Gossip

“Say what?”
“I was asking did you hear about Toddy?”
“What about Toddy?”
“I said Toddy got his back burnt badly and was taken to the hospital.”
“Oh, too much sun?”
“Sun?”
“Yes, sun. From laying on the beach?”
“No, I heard it was a cooking accident.”
“Cooking?”
“Yeah, apparently his sausages overboild!”

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October Saturday, Part Two

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October: Month of wellingtons and mackintoshes
Photography and Poetry

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“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again” Hal Borland

October Saturday, Part Two

Standing in the sun’s light
Between the tall shadows
Selfies of a different kind
Listening to the echoes
Before the end of twilight
And the rising of the moon
Night time falling soon

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October Saturday, Part One

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October: Month of wellingtons and mackintoshes
Photography and Poetry

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“October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master” Elizabeth Enright

October Saturday, Part One

Finally, weekend
Truly a godsend
A time to enjoy and relax
Lift your feet up and chillax

But, being my usual self
Could not just sit down
Grabbed the camera from the shelf
And ran down town

Sunlight on Saturday
Watching the shadows play
Colours of leaves in abundance
The birds and flies doing a dance

Sun warming the air
Not a time to despair
The cold and damp weather
Replaced by light and high pressure

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