Life is what you make of it.
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail” – John Donne, 1633
Category: iPHONEOGRAPHY
The world according to iPhone
You know you want some
Oatmeal multigrain french toast with maple syrup and freshly ground cinnamon – because Sunday shouldn’t be the only day of the week to indulge in a sweetly satisfying brekkie.
Autumn Mandala
Suede boots and soft, fuzzy sweaters are whispering my name despite the humidity of summer’s last hurrah.
Sometimes
It’s nice to be alone…
The future looks bright
The torpor of the season is wearing off with cooler nights and the smell of autumn in the air. Still summer in my brain though…
Musta been da punch
The summer is starting to look blurry – celebrate what’s left before autumn arrives.
Call Pest Control
So thrilled the hibiscus planted 2 years ago has finally decided to bloom. Not so thrilled these little visitors have decided to take a break from their condo building on the side of the house to have lunch here. No way I’m getting up a ladder with an eviction notice…
Small Pleasures are awesome
There was a time when certain foods had their own undeniable flavour and were only eaten during season. Wild local strawberries at dusk bring back filtered memories of childhood, cicada song among the sweetgrass and that sleepy satisfaction at the end of a day that the world couldn’t get much better.
I would put forward that small unexpected pleasures, like the taste of a perfectly ripe summer berry bursting in your mouth, are the ones that make it all worthwhile. They are awesome because they are more than just the thing itself: they call out to the past, inform the present and remind us how things should be – one perfect moment at a time…
Just a little snack
Summer Mango salsa on home-made pita nachos
Join me!
Twilight
It’s a good year for phlox
Garden Party Mandala
Kick off your shoes, grab something chilled and cool off in the shade.
Summer is winding down.
Urban Archeology
I’ve passed over this piece of sidewalk graffiti more times than I can count and each time I have wondered about the circumstances of its making. And no, the image isn’t reversed as the “words” scrawled into the concrete would suggest. What do they say and to whom? The whole reminds me of ancient Roman graffiti – but one doubts it will last as long…
Tomato series
Like summer on the vine
The Second Wave
Hollyhocks abound, reaching for the sky, where once there were none.
Brekkie
When did I stop making pancakes from scratch? Leftover buttermilk and Martha Stewart’s buttermilk pancake recipe reminded me what we had been missing… No more mixes for this cook.
Not there now…
Clematis and the rogue hollyhock
How hot?
could be worse – could be six feet of snow
Everything (almost and more) in one place
Someone asked me whether I really use the 100+ editing apps that are on my phone: yes, I just can’t always remember what they do…
Ground cover
nice to see things are flourishing without my intervention
Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall
Changing Viewpoints
How long has this been there?
In the Kitchen
A marriage made in heaven
Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange
Treats: aren’t you glad they didn’t say purple…
Find something sunny in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth
Above or below, there is no accurate measure of our perception
See things from a different angle in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth
Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself
For all the writers, artists and actors
slogging through another day in the wrong job to make ends meet
Find inspiration in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself
Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity
Even the sound of our breath
can be too loud for serenity
Be calm with the entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: You are My Sunshine, Chorus
Man is on his actions alone judged by Beast
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Discover the important little things in the entries of
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: You are My Sunshine, Chorus
Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed
we are shadowed by the grey of winter
waiting for the brilliance of spring
Find the light in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed
Weekly Photo Challenge: New
perhaps the changing of the Year
is not so much about contemplating the future
but looking at the past
with new vision
Take another look at the entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: New
Fiction in 50: Into the Great Beyond
I told you to stop feeding that thing – one of these days it’s going to want to come inside and then what are you going to do? It’s gotten bigger since you’ve been giving it Fliblets, with that appetite it will zot us all willy-nilly into the great beyond…
The Bookshelf Gargoyle curates a Fiction in 50 mini-narrative challenge – this month’s prompt is Into the Great Beyond! Take a chance, step out of your comfort zone, leap right into writing a piece of short, short fiction: send it in and then go have a peek at the other entries – GargoyleBruce writes wonderful reviews on all sorts of kid lit (big and small) with a cheeky tone guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Wander through the stacks, you are sure to find something you’ll like.
Click on the icon in the sidebar for previous entries…
ACROSS THE BORED 