Posted in The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge, Seasons
Share an image evocative of the weather or represent the current “season of your life” in metaphor
“Now is the winter of our discontent” Richard III, William Shakespeare
Bending not breaking
Swaying back and forth
Somewhere up north
In a forsaken part of earth
Where mother nature gave them birth
Posted in The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge, Seasons
Share an image evocative of the weather or represent the current “season of your life” in metaphor.
“Now is the winter of our discontent” Richard III, William Shakespeare
Snowfall
It pours when it snows
When the soft white stuff downward flows
But still something strong grows
Even if the wind really hard blows
Posted in The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge, Seasons
Share an image evocative of the weather or represent the current “season of your life” in metaphor.
“Now is the winter of our discontent” Richard III, William Shakespeare
Snowy Cotton Balls
Fluffy and puffy
But still most toughie
Balls made of snow
In the darkness they’ll glow
Pick one up and whoa!
Then in a slow mo
It far away throw
Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography
“I started a Shrove Tuesday and then by Ash Wednesday something had happened and I had a bottle of beer” Mick McCarthy
Shrove Tuesday (Daily Photo)
Shrove Tuesday (known in some countries as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake day) is a day in February or March preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes. In others, especially those where it is called Mardi Gras or some translation thereof, this is a carnival day, and also the last day of “fat eating” or “gorging” before the fasting period of Lent.
In Finland, Shrovetide took on a new meaning after the Reformation started by the German Martin Luther (1483-1546) from ca 1520 on. In the rural calendar, it marked the date by which many springtime tasks and duties, like spinning etc, should be brought to conclusion.
Nowadays Shrovetide is more of a secular festival season, a time for winter sport enthusiasts as well as for feasts of fatty foods, although the Lenten fasting ritual is not practiced among the Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran Church.
On Shrove Tuesday, children in many kindergartens and schools are taken to spend the day tobogganing, ice skating or cross-country or downhill skiing.
Popular Finnish Shrovetide desserts are Shrove buns, almond paste and whipped cream-filled sweet buns, which you will find sold in every bakery and store at Shrovetide, and Finnish oven-baked pancake served with jam. In Finland, the habit of eating Shrove buns can be dated back to the 17th century, but this tradition is even older in Sweden, where it originally came from.
Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!
“I may be an optimist, but I always pack my wellies”
Ode to my Wellingtons
You beautiful lovelies
My sweet red Wellingtons
Luckily I wasn’t swayed
By those tempting sandals
I would have been betrayed
When the rain came pouring down
Hopeless without my crown
Puddles all over the ground
No safe harbour to be found
Taking a small step
Anticipating the get wet
But to my surprise
You saved my life!
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Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!
“At least there is no snow on the ground” Gun Roswell
Welcome To Finland’s Midsummer
Not creature stirred
Not even a mouse
Vision getting blurred
Or just an illusion
If you come to the conclusion
And dare to leave the house
Heed this warning
The rain come a down pouring
Soon you will be scorning
The streets empty and deserted
The barbeque outside forgotten and defeated
Shivering in ten plus degrees
Wishing you had paid the fees
Of a nice vacation abroad
But your plan was flawed
Planning on spending
The day never ending
At home in stead
Spending the Finnish carnival
An event most formidable
Even though holier than thou
Or the proverbial sacred cow
That was all but a dream
You hear yourself scream
If you’d only been so lucky
But now feeling yucky
Your midsummer
What a bummer
Surely a nightmare to remember
So what really happened:
Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remembering the Turn of the Year (Daily Photo 2016-01-12)
Colourful burst of light
Against the darkness
Of the night
The clocks are churning
The new year is turning
Time for a new hope
And a new future
Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography
“I look like the man in the moon” Martin Freeman
Daylight Moon (Daily Photo 2016-01-09)
The cloudless blue evening sky
Bringing the moon out from its hide
Painted neatly into the landscape
With a uncompleted crescent shape
The eternal battle
Closer to a haggle
Between moon and sun
Had once more begun
Posted in Seasonal
Posted in response to The Clinic-Photo Rehab hosted by Lucile De Godoy
Poetry, Photography, Humour
“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter” Billy Connolly
Winter, Winter
Oh winter, winter
You are such a splinter
In our collective derrières
Oh winter winter
I am using my printer
Producing images of summer
Oh winter winter
The whitish tinter
Gets old really fast
Oh winter winter
Do I really sound bitter
Just kidding, I’ll get by 😉
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Poetry & Photography
“Now is the winter of our discontent” William Shakespeare
Sunset
A flash of light
Breaking the gray skies
It was a sight
But oh how time flies
The sun
Has set
Rantings Of A Third Kind 