Category: Photography

Six Sentence Story: Tell Me My Dream

After coming home loaded with booty from the battlefield doing a lot of damage chasing this, that and the other thing King Nimrodwannabe finally got a good night’s sleep.

When he woke in the morning he recalled that he was dreaming of trying to catch something that ran this way, then – when he almost had it – that way and then – when he almost had it again – some other way. If it weren’t that he was just waking up, all of this running around would have exhausted him, but quickly the dream drifted away into the land of forgetfulness where dreams love to vanish.

However, the vague recollection that he dreamed at all bothered him enough to gather his wizards and witches with their wands and black cats so they could retrieve the dream from the land of forgetfulness and then interpret it. He knew this task was way beyond their abilities, but he wanted to see just how much nonsense they would try to feed him this time.

It was Halloween, after all, their favorite time of the year when they expected to get a royal treat perhaps even a share of the booty, but this year Nimrodwannabe had a trick or two of his own to play.

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

Daniel 2:7-9 KJV – 7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it. 8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. 9 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

October Limericks

All of these limericks were originally posted to Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick during the month of October 2025. Some I have slightly modified. I’ve even added titles which I hear limericks are forbidden to have.

I’ve added two photos for those who prefer a picture to a thousand words of nonsense.

Crazy Love

“That is crazy!” I thought though it’s true
like the fact that the blue sky is blue
like a gift from above
like a message of love
like an answer just waiting for you.

Prompt word “crazy” October 6, 2025

By the lake with its mountains and trees dark worries can’t do as they please.

Be Careful Whom You Follow

When I followed, you said, “Follow through,”
but I followed. What more should I do?
“Well, I gave you a map.”
Like a rat in a trap,
yes, I followed, but why didn’t you?

Prompt word “follow” October 13, 2025 (slightly modified)

Moon Cheese With Bread And Wine

Although some say the moon’s made of cheese,
is there wine and fresh bread with that, please?
Are there olives as well
and soft moonbeams to tell
of that night with the warm light through trees?

Prompt word “bread” October 20, 2025 (slightly modified)

Some white clouds come to play on this bright blue fine day and my mind, like I’ve said, is at ease.

Dusty Dust

So much dust! Can a sneezer now trust
all the dust that a sneezer now must?
When I sneeze I will say
to the dust: Blow away!
But it stayed since it’s just dusty dust.

Prompt word: “dust” October 27, 2025

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Autumn Color

Dale offers the prompt “autumn color” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Prompt.

These are photos of the forest preserve in northern Illinois when we used to live there a few years ago.

Where I am now in the Carolinas, the trees haven’t started changing yet.

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Autumn: Northern Illinois
Desplaines River: Northbrook, Illinois
Forest Preserve: Northern Illinois

Six Sentence Story: Reason, Reason Everywhere Without a Beating Heart

Joe was a mathematician.

Among his many skills he could tell you which infinity was bigger than the other. If you told him that you doubted such a skill had much value, he’d entertain you for a longer period of time than your patience could tolerate with a sequence of axioms, lemmas and theorems that justified the value of his results.

However, as Joe approached the end of his life the infinite number of infinities, lined up like idols starving for sacrifices, that used to spice his life gave way to an unexpected and undeserved heart of flesh that seemed as if it had just begun to beat out of nowhere. He laughed at all the arguments he used to drill into unwilling ears hoping they might forgive (knowing they had already forgotten) all that he told them.

But, whether they forgave or not, Joe wished that all of them could find the heartfelt joy he now felt, a joy worth far more than any number of dubious infinities.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: From An Unusual Perspective

Dale offers the prompt “from an unusual perspective” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The unusual perspective I used is getting so close to the object that I tend to forget just what it was originally.

This is a dip for breads and other food seen up close
This is a very small part of a large fence around a park.
The yellow object to the bottom right (I think) is an egg and all of it is in a fancy bowl with flowers as decorations. You can see the shadow of my phone taking the picture.

Six Sentence Story: Fleeing From God

When the Lord told Jonah to tell the Ninevites to repent so He wouldn’t need to destroy them, Jonah got on a boat and fled in the opposite direction. An horrendous storm refused to calm until Jonah was tossed overboard to his death and burial in the belly of a whale.

The cost of disobedience is death.

However, after three days and three nights – after three sunsets and three sunrises – the fish vomited Jonah onto the shore and back to life so the Lord could tell Jonah once again to tell the Ninevites to repent so He wouldn’t need to destroy them. The sight of Jonah – who looked (and likely smelled) like the walking dead – and the reluctant words coming from his mouth freaked out the inhabitants of Nineveh to such an extent that they all repented and were spared against Jonah’s wishes.

It gets you nowhere fleeing from God.

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

Six Sentence Story: Filled To Overflowing

While trying to fill a six sentence story with words Greg realized he hadn’t a clue what to write that made any sense. A few blocks away neither could Bethany make any progress on her story.

Later that afternoon they found themselves sitting next to each other in a coffee shop in the last two available chairs complaining about their fruitless attempts to come up with decent stories. They whined and laughed while drinking their coffees.

That afternoon in the coffeeshop was how it all started. Over the years came the children, the grandchildren and even stories that made sense.

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Denise offers “fill” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.