Dog’s Best Friend

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“Are you sure, brown dog? Bark if I see ANYTHING at all on the street, and twice as loud if I see NOTHING at all?”

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“Hmmm. Fruity, black currant, vanilla, buttery… I’d say cab-sauvignon aged in oak.”
“I’d say cherry Pop Tart.”

 

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Synchronized Sleeping


The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Partners

 

Pure White

Pure –
1. free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind;
free from extraneous matter.

Free from difference, inferiority, contamination…

Perhaps, just perhaps,
purity is in the eye
of the beholder.

 

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Pure white flowers, tinged in purple.

 

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Pure innocence surrounded by pure white light.

 

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Pure white flame reflected in purely smooth melted wax.

 

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Pure delight and wonder wrapped in pure white fur.


The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Pure

By the Numbers

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One day I was
too tired to meet my
three friends
for drinks at
five o’clock, so I deep-
sixed that idea, and instead went to the
7-Eleven store and
ate
nine corndogs. Within
ten minutes, I felt ill, so I returned to the 7-
Eleven and bought
twelve indigestion tablets for
thirteen dollars. From now on, I’ll leave the junk food
for teens to consume.

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The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Numbers

Entangled

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Dear Morning Glory:

Despite the beauty of your blossoms,
in your determined quest to reach the sun
you appear to be strangling my currant bush.

While I find both you and the currant bush
aesthetically pleasing, I unfortunately
need to sacrifice one  to spare the other.

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Contrary to your innocent appearance,
I know you to be quite ruthless in your
climb to the top, and it seems to matter not
whom you strangle in the process.

Please consider this letter to be
your eviction notice. You must
cease and desist from wrapping your tendrils
around the stems of the currant resident.

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In order to facilitate your departure,
I am uprooting you from the ground.
While I hope this resolves our conflict,
I suspect you will try to make a comeback.

Be warned:
I will be diligent in
policing my grounds.

Sincerely,
The Keeper of the Pruning Shears


The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Spare

Chiseled Features

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Art comes in many media and creative techniques. These three faces were carved from logs with chain saws, with final touches added by chisel.

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The first two represent lumberjacks. And the third is none other than Sasquatch (Big Foot) himself.

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These large carvings are on display at Camp 18 Logging Museum in Elsie, Oregon. Photos showing a more distant view of the lumberjacks can be seen in this post on my sister blog, “What Rhymes with Stanza?”


The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Face

Forgive Us, Mother

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Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

~ Evo Morales

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… for we have sinned.


The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Earth