Caturday, 2016-01-23

In honour of Caturday, for all cats everywhere
Poetry, Song and Photography

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“You know, from my point of view, I’m the luckiest cat on the planet” Hugh Hefner

Caturday, 2016-01-23

Cats, cats, cats
I see a lots of cats
Cats over there
And cats over here
Even more cats
They are everywhere

Oh, look at the pretty cat
In the window there
What window, where?
Over there, over here
Even more cats
They are everywhere

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Early Bird catches the Sunrise

Posted in Favourite Photo Friday, 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-22)

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“I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception” James Balog

Early Bird catches the Sunrise

An early bird’s price
Is a gorgeous sunrise
Climbing high up in the skies
Before your very eyes

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Moon, Moon, where art thou?

Posted in Favourite Photo Friday, 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-22)

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“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art” Ansel Adams

Moon, Moon, where art thou?

Moon, moon
Where art thou moon?
Come out from your hiding
On the nightly path guiding
Before off the trail
I go slipping and sliding

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Ready for the Close-up

Posted in Favourite Photo Friday, 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-22)

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“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence” Ansel Adams

Ready for the Close-up

Getting closer and closer
A little more closer
Almost close enough
For an object to touch
But wait, time to hesitate
The cactus with mighty thorns
May your fingers scorn
Before you loose
Better choose
The creamy strawberries
With their pals blueberries
A tasty treat
Without any meat
Some eye candy to complete
With a red amaryllis ever so sweet

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All creatures, Great and Small

Posted in Favourite Photo Friday 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-22)

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“Contrast is what makes photography interesting” Conrad Hall

All creatures, Great and Small

Squirrels, birds and cats
With and without their hats
Kitty sitting on the potty
The vigilant bird on watch
The squirrel named Dotty
Living in the lodge

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Favourite Photo Friday, 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-22)

Photography and Poetry
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Posted in Fav Foto Friday #26

Share each Friday, on your own blog, one photo…or maybe even a gallery of some of your favorite photos that you have taken during the week, that make you smile or that was a great photo capturing opportunity…anything really! And as photographers are often known to say, “The best camera is, the one that you have with you!”

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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still” Dorothea Lange

Favourite Photo Friday, 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-22)

Those of you snapping pix, know this to be a tedious task, since to be honest, they are all favourites of the moments they were taken, why else would you have shot them in the first place, right? Trying to limit to just one or two photos is difficult for any post, but trying my best here from the several thousand photos shot and posted during 2015 😉

For this week’s breakdown, I have chosen three photographs each from the following topics:

All creatures, Great and Small
Ready for the Close up
Moon, Moon, where art thou?
Early Bird catches the Sunrise

Hope you enjoy the walk down memory lane of 2015 in photographs!

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Throwback Thursday 2016-01-21

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“Just an FYI: Thursday the 12th is just as rare at Friday the 13th.”

Throwback Thursday 2016-01-21

Each Thursday we walk down memory lane and dig deeply into the archives of Rantings Of A Third Kind. For these posts, I have chosen some of my personal favourites. Some of them may tickle the funny bone, some even provoke thoughts and some of them will give you a view of the world in photographs taken by yours truly.

Here are a few featured today for your enjoyment today:

I Blog therefore I am (Repost for TBT)

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Coffee made me do it! (Repost for TBT)

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Let the Rantings continue!!!
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Coffee made me do it! (Repost for TBT)

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“Black as night, sweet as sin” Neil Gaiman

Coffee made me do it!

Today I went off the edge
I didn’t even take a pledge
I pranced around like a Fred Astaire
The others looking with a stare
Laughing out very loud
And feeling extremely proud
An old tune from years ago
Nothing to stop the show
I started singing that tune
Not being any kind of prune
Why this happened you may ask
It wasn’t anything from a flask
Though I have one excuse to acquit
The Coffee made me do it!

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Alphabet (The Daily Post)

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet

This week, let the alphabet be your inspiration: find a string of letters. Try a multi-photo gallery to collect images of single characters. Find some beautiful typography, or look for letters hidden in natural forms. I’m excited to see your ABCs!

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“When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off” Vanna White

Alphabet (The Daily Post)

I am the Alpha
I am the Omega
I am the Beginning
I am the End

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Quote a Week Tuesday, 2016-01-19

Posted in A Quote a Week Tuesday

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed” Ernest Hemingway

Quote a Week Tuesday, 2016-01-19

For this week’s quote, I chose a little something to encourage all us writers; two simple guidelines to follow. Well, basically it is one and the same but for your reading pleasure, please find both the original and updated version.

“This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it is done. It’s that easy, it’s that hard.” Neil Gaiman

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