Widower’s Song #4: This Urn
It held her ashes,
waiting until daffodils
came for them in spring.
Then it held one last bouquet
of her favorite flowers.
While shopping for food on the Monday before Thanksgiving Day in 2019, I noticed an especially good poinsettia with the salmon pink leaves edged in pale yellow that I like. Too early for a Xmas decoration? Yeah, but this plant’s not so glaringly out of season as the older choices of bright red or stark white.
In the morning on Thanksgiving Day itself, the plant looked even better and insisted on being photographed. Between shots, I noticed ways that the plant fits in with giving thanks after all.
Yes, I am posting this small Thanksgiving celebration a little late. One reason is that I let things rest a while and then edit again before publishing. The other reason is that the wheels turn slowly at my age. That they still turn is yet another reason to give thanks.
While the juxtapositions collected by Mitch Teemley are all clever and funny, the ballerina/tulip photo is special. Because their stems keep growing and tend to flop over, tulips are tricky in flower arrangements. It’s one of life’s (littler) lemons. The ballerina/tulip photo makes lemonade.(BTW, the [Menu] button atop the vertical black bar reveals the widgets.)
(Click on any image to enlarge it, or to begin slide show)
Memorial Colors
Lavender salutes
red, white, and blue of our flag.
Pride and gratitude.
Words ~ Pic and a Word Challenge
As Susie left home to start a new life with Dale, her mother watched and wondered. Would the mixed marriage work?
Aware that sharing her worries would be unwelcome and unheeded, Mama let her words of warning remain unspoken and unheard.
Wisely, Mama kept silent despite having words to say. Unwisely, some people run afoul of Wittgenstein’s Laws by breaking silence despite not having any sensible words to say.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Close Up or Macro
In music, a rondo is a piece with successive segments that go A-B-A-C-A-D…-A, where contrasting segments B, C, D, … are bracketed by repetitions of A that may vary slightly. Let’s arrange some colorful closeups like a rondo that goes
A-B1-A-C-A-D-A-E-A-B2-A.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant Colors
I like the synergy when a few good things up their game by working together, as with peanuts and chocolate. When they do not clash, bright colors can work together in vibrant synergy.
Pink and Green:
Magenta and Yellow (with a bee):
With help from blue and green, the pink and yellow flowers in the following photo team up to illustrate a deep truth about statistics. Really.
Outside of CFFC, I posted the photo along with a beautiful image found on the web that espresses the same deep truth in another way. Both ways have no equations, no jargon, and no saturated fat. Click on the photo to see the details.
