Proverbial Fairy Tales: Wolf! Wolf! – The Investigations

Once upon a time the leaders of the town where the lad used to live decided to conduct a series of investigations to find out precisely what happened to the lad in all its gory details. However, no one actually saw the lad get eaten by the big bad wolf in spite of the tall tales offered to tourists.

One investigation centered on the lassies who said they were kissed by the lad and had vowed never ever to wash that spot again. These lassies were highly popular with the tourists.

The town leaders commissioned the most renowned scientist they could afford to construct from those unwashed spots where the lad kissed these gorgeous lassies his full DNA sequence that they planned to display in their newly opened museum. In spite of there being hundreds of distinct Y-chromosomes on those unwashed spots our brilliant scientist was able to swing a home run by miraculously producing with the help of a random number generator the commissioned DNA sequence that allowed him to live happily ever after.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Looking Up

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

As it turns out recently there was a total eclipse of the moon. The only problem was it would occur about 5 am. So I set the alarm. The next problem I had not anticipated was clouds, but even the clouds cooperated enough. Then I wondered if my phone could get clear enough images.

Anyway, here are the best of the lot including one from the moonrise a few hours earlier.

Moonrise, but after the moon rose high enough to get past the clouds on the horizon
Early morning. The moon is full, but the sun is casting the earth’s shadow on it.
The clouds are coming in and soon blocked the moon, but I did get a chance to get a near fully eclipsed moon before they did.

Proverbial Fairy Tale: Wolf! Wolf! – The Pigeons

Once upon a time there was an ever-growing clan of pigeons who found the statue of the lad and the big bad wolf as attractive as the photographers who featured photos of it everywhere. It was a beautiful bronze color, that is, it was until the pigeons did what they normally do when they float over your head and take aim.

Over the years people thought the spots turned the statue into a magical masterpiece that the town council – to save funds – cheerfully agreed to leave uncleaned. Eventually all that the tourists who came looking for the statue could find was a huge whitish gray, compost wannabe pile that the pigeons kept contributing to.

Thankfully most tourists thought the artistic touch added by the pigeons was even more impressive than the original statue which was no longer visible. By doing nothing the town found itself living happily ever after.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: First Signs Of Spring

Dale offers the prompt “first signs of spring” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I can’t tell which season it is where I am now except by where the sun sets in the west.

Regardless what it is actually doing the sun keeps moving across the horizon back and forth throughout the year.

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Here the sun is setting just to the right of that building.
The sun is moving even further to the right.
Here it is even further to the right.
It looks like it is going to hit those buildings. Last night the sun lit up that building to the far right that is still under construction.

Proverbial Fairy Tales: Wolf! Wolf! – The No-One-In-His-Right-Mind Statue

Once upon a time, after the lad-wolf incident, Save The Wolf Foundation got a few votes too many in a low turnout election (except for all the dead people who miraculously voted) for seats on the town council. As the new majority they immediately demanded that a statue be set up to honor the big bad wolf who was brutally, but deliciously, barbequed.

This plan didn’t fly well with the majority of the (living) town folk – like maybe 100% of them – who now regretted not voting because they figured no one in his right mind would vote for Save The Wolf (as indeed no one in his right mind did). Threatened to be ousted in the next election – which would be watched like a hawk – Save The Wolf compromised enough to permit the town council to commission a statue of the lad with the big bad wolf chewing his leg.

After the statue was erected the town became a notorious tourist attraction drawing visitors from far and wide who wanted to see the statue that no one in his right mind would have erected. Anyone who could find a way to profit from this unexpected popularity by delaying the tourists’ stay with some lucrative lad-wolf amusement lived happily ever after.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Path To The Beach

Dale offers the prompt “the path to…” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Just some images of the path along the beach. There is sand, shells and birds. There is even an umbrella.

Keep walking. The path to the beach leads to more beach.

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Shells and sand
Birds, sand and water
A lone umbrella on the sand