In honour of Caturday, for all cats everywhere
Poetry, Song and Photography
“You know, from my point of view, I’m the luckiest cat on the planet” Hugh Hefner
Caturday, 2015-11-07
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
Writing 101, Day Five: Hook ’em with a quote
A blank page can be intimidating. Sometimes it’s helpful to use someone else’s words to give you a boost. Today, use a quote or passage from something you’ve read to introduce your post.
The type of quote you choose is up to you. Maybe the passage is something you’d like to comment on, or is one of your favorite quotes. Or maybe you read a great essay the other day, and one of its lines made you think.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” Oscar Wilde
I am who I am
I am
What I am
Simply
Just
Because
I want to be
I am a closet writer
I am also intensely hyper
I am some kind of photographer
I am also a videographer
I am fifty year old lady with an attitude
But not without much gratitude
So what if I wear my hair short
So what if I sometimes snort
So what if I wear pink at my age
So what if I feel comfortable on a stage
So what if I wear a shorter than short skirt
So what if I’m a bit of a flirt
Related posts:
Pretty in Pink
I’m not Evil, I was just Drawn That Way
Writing 101, Day Four: A story in a single image
Yesterday, you found inspiration in one word and used it as a springboard for a post idea. Images — including photographs and works of art — can also act as starting points for stories, essays, poems, and personal musings. For this exercise, use one image as the creative spark for today’s post. You might use it as the setting for a story or poem, write about how it makes you feel, or describe a memory conjured by it.
“The gargantuan crystalline structure that towered three thousand feet above the lunar surface was both menacing and bewildering to behold”
Monolith
Tall, dark and mysterious
Standing by itself, all serious
Staring at it, getting nervous
Or maybe just a little delirious
The stone called the monolith
Sounding totally apocalyptic
With a background quite cryptic
Its appearance utterly terrific
Forgetting superstition
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Posted in Fav Foto Friday
“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!”
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution” Ansel Adams
Favourite Photo of the Week, 2015-11-06
Monolith
Tall, dark and mysterious
Standing by itself, all serious
Staring at it, getting nervous
Or maybe just a little delirious
…
Related post:
Monolith
Celebration time on Rantings Of A Third Kind
“I blog, therefore I am”
700 Post Celebration @ Rantings Of A Third Kind
Today is a great day and certainly a time for celebration!
I have posted my 700th post on Rantings of a Third Kind.
Thanks to all my followers and readers for keeping me going!
Keep calm and keep on blogging!
Gun
In honour of the month of November
Photography and Poetry
&
Posted in response to The Clinic-Photo Rehab hosted by Lucile De Godoy
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns” George Eliot
Leaves of November
The colours may be fading
The cold nights not aiding
The circle of life still a fact
Use camouflage to distract?
Winter knocking at the door
Trying hard to ignore
Yearn for life weighing more
Growing stronger than before
Writing 101, Day Four: A story in a single image
Yesterday, you found inspiration in one word and used it as a springboard for a post idea. Images — including photographs and works of art — can also act as starting points for stories, essays, poems, and personal musings. For this exercise, use one image as the creative spark for today’s post. You might use it as the setting for a story or poem, write about how it makes you feel, or describe a memory conjured by it.
“The gargantuan crystalline structure that towered three thousand feet above the lunar surface was both menacing and bewildering to behold”
Monolith
Tall, dark and mysterious
Standing by itself, all serious
Staring at it, getting nervous
Or maybe just a little delirious
The stone called the monolith
Sounding totally apocalyptic
With a background quite cryptic
Its appearance utterly terrific
Forgetting superstition
By my own admission
Completing my mission
Trusting my intuition
And touching the stone
Writing 101, Day Four: A story in a single image
Yesterday, you found inspiration in one word and used it as a springboard for a post idea. Images — including photographs and works of art — can also act as starting points for stories, essays, poems, and personal musings. For this exercise, use one image as the creative spark for today’s post. You might use it as the setting for a story or poem, write about how it makes you feel, or describe a memory conjured by it.
“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings” Victor Hugo
In Flight
Flying through the air
Without a single care
A beauty with flare
Innocence unaware
Flapping her wings
While the wind sings
Sky feels like spring
A scene well worthy
Of kings
Blogging 201, Day Four: Backgrounds and Fonts
You’re a theme pro, and you have a great plan for your header. Time for two more free tweaks that add a lot of texture to your blog — backgrounds and fonts.
Today’s takeaways: you’ll learn how to change your background color or add your own image, understand the effect different colors and patterns have on your blog, explore background shades that work with the other colors and patterns on your blog, and learn to pick the right font for you.
“Every time you post something online, you have a choice.You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world—or you can make it something that takes away”
Blogging 201, Day Four: Backgrounds and Fonts
* Step-by-step instructions on adding or changing your background
* Background dos and don’ts
* A primer on color theory to help you identify hues that work together
* How to choose and change fonts
After running the blog with a few colours other than the black, oddly enough, I returned to black 😛 This colour seems most fitting for my photographs and combined with white font, the outcome is simple and perfect in my eyes. Dark gray is also great for photos as is a very dark blue.
I also tried to increase the font, but it seems the current default setup is great, especially for mobile devices with smaller screens i.e. phones.
Main view of the blog
Post example
Writing 101, Day Three: One-word inspiration
Prompts come in many different forms. Sometimes, a single word is all you need to get your mind’s wheels turning. Here are six words:
* HOPE
* REGRET
* HOME
* CHOICE
* ABUNDANCE
* SECRET
Select one word in this list that speaks to you in some way. Have you always wanted to write about that one decision that changed your life? Are you a long-term traveler looking for the right city to settle?
“Home sweet home”
Writing 101, Day Three: Home
Other places are the best
They let you forget all the rest
But when I am away
I know I shouldn’t stay
Something deep inside me
A small voice with a plea
A soft whisper only for myself
Telling it is time for a farewell
Leaving the new place I must
Before the settling of the dust
Because
“There really is no place like home”
