Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

Trail: Little Sugar Creek Greenway

This walk was on the southern end of the Little Sugar Creek Greenway that goes through Charlotte, North Carolina.

It is a very easy walk. On a scale of 1 to 10, from easy to hard, this trail would score 0. The trail is wide and paved and great for a bicycle.

Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.

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Wide, two-lane trail for bicycles with Little Sugar Creek to the left.
A wetland area attached to the Little Sugar Creek.
Fluffy seeds along the trail

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Symmetry

Dale offers the prompt “symmetry” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

One of the places where I watched sunsets in southern Florida has a shiny wall blocking a residence from the park.

If I stood near the wall I could see the setting sun. This allowed me to put two sunsets in the photo.

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Two sunsets!
Two skylines!
One reflected sunset.

The Old Golf Course Trail

This trail is in Fort Mill, South Carolina, just off Regent Parkway. It goes around an abandoned golf course and a man-made pond surrounded by residences for about a mile.

Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time #9.

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The trail is mostly paved and somewhat steep in places.
The man-made pond part of the trail surrounds.
A view of part of the old golf course which is still mown.

Six Sentence Story: Touched

Taking things for granted was no puzzle for Tim. He had been doing it all his life.

One day he got touched.

His friends told him that he’d get over it. As years passed Tim realized he’d never get over it. As even more years passed he was glad he never did.

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Denise offers the prompt word “puzzle” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Under The Canopy

Dale offers the prompt “under the canopy” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I wonder if palm trees form a canopy. They do block the sun.

Or awnings?

Or clouds?

The red part is a covering (canopy), but above it is a beautiful, cloudy sky.
A big bird minding his own business under a bush canopy.
It’s amazing what you can see under a canopy of trees.

Six Sentence Story: Whisperer

I got an earful when I hired a therapist – a “cat whisperer” as he advertised himself – for my crazy cat. He picked up Nutty, the name I gave her, and whispered sweet nothings in her ear. At first Nutty looked at him with her usual suspicion thinking he might be one of my friends, but after a while Nutty began cuddling and snuggling up to him.

After the session the therapist signaled me aside out of Nutty’s hearing to whisper in my ear that he agreed with her about me. Agreed about what? was all I could say.

That’s when I got an earful.

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Denise offers the prompt word “signal” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Moral of the story (in case you need the earful version): Don’t call your crazy cat Nutty (or even say she’s “crazy”); her name’s Madeleine.

PARAPHRASE OF FIRST STANZA – If I’d ever write the story of my life, I’d write about my friend, Madeleine. When she left one morning I saw her laugh and cry at the same time. What she told me I’ll never forget: “How God has blessed your home!”