Category: Photography

Proverbial Fairy Tale: A Critter’s Just Deserts

Once upon a time there lived a critter, a fish out of water, whom no one could figure out. We all knew he had problems, but he didn’t think there was anything wrong with himself, at least, nothing worth the bother of fixing.

Although he reassured us that he was fine – “just following a different drummer”, he lamely explained – how could we convince him otherwise without a proper diagnosis? So, we diagnosed him ourselves yelling: YOU’RE NUTS!

That should have solved the problem, but all it did was isolate the critter further while we went off to our regular therapy sessions and he let his problems go from bad to worse. Even after all of us went to our just deserts none of us could figure out why he kept living happily ever after.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Morning Light

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

These photos are from the past, but they are all of morning light over the Atlantic Ocean.

It is great to get up early and go to the beach to watch the birds and the sun.

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Early morning over the Atlantic Ocean with birds
Morning with birds: Atlantic Ocean
Morning, morning

Proverbial Fairy Tale: Lad And Lass

Once upon a time there was a lad who proudly declared that he took only one biology class (of which all he remembered was dissecting some frog), no chemistry classes and no physics classes (worth mentioning). He did take enough mathematics and programming classes to confidently declare that he could read all of that other garbage should he ever want to waste his time doing so.

About the same time there was a lass who had her eyes on the lad. It is unclear whether she pursued him or whether she convinced him to pursue her or whether there was any difference between those two options. Regardless, she got him.

Since biology works no matter how many classes you’ve taken nor how many frogs you’ve dissected nor how many boyfriends you’ve convinced to pursue you, they made a vow to live happily ever after.

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

Proverbial Fairy Tale: Dumping Dark Matter on the Commodity Exchange

Once upon a time there was a lad who read bestsellers like The Fool’s Guide to the Multiverse, The Evolution of Unbelievably Common Ancestors and How To Buy and Sell Dark Matter.

Our lad had many friends. He taught them everything he learned from his extensive reading. They said, “Wow!” In turn they taught all of it to everyone they knew.

The lad and his friends lived happily ever after until they dumped a tad too much dark matter on the commodity exchange generating an enhanced gravitational force that collapsed the exchange into an unstable stellar object which exploded leaving a nasty black hole all of which is detailed in the lad’s new bestseller How NOT To Dump Dark Matter on a Commodity Exchange.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: A Cold Start

Dale offers the prompt “a cold start” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

It is rather warm where we live in the Carolinas and Florida although sometimes it reaches Florida freezing temperatures below 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

These photos are from when we lived in the Chicago area where Chicago freezing temperatures reached minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Or so I heard. On those days I didn’t go out to check.

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Cold, but still warm enough for snow to cling to the trees
Snowing along a path in Northbrook, Illinois
No snow, but cool temperatures