Category: Photography

Six Sentence Story: The Doctors Of Nescience

Philip decided to start a company that would produce deceptively engaging nonsense for video channels. He hired his colleagues from the University of Noital each a renowned Doctor of Nescience to build the content. Being congenitally unemployable they were surprised to find themselves suddenly working.

The company was so successful that after many years of faithfully rigging the books, Philip’s CFO reported that profits exceeded expectations for the tenth quarter in a row. However, when the CFO demanded a bigger cut of the faked profits Philip, who failed himself to get a degree in nescience, took the company to the next level by firing the entire board of directors.

That was when Philip realized that he had acquired enough expertise twisting stuff to pitch it all and trash the books himself.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: North, South, East and West

Dale offers the prompt “north, south, east, west” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Now, I can’t keep my lefts and rights straight so I hope what I label as north, south, east and west doesn’t get confused as well.

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EAST: Looking toward the Atlantic Ocean on the bridge connecting Bal Harbor and some other place I can’t remember the name of.
WEST: The water is the Intracoastal Waterway
NORTH: The door to the stairs at the place we stayed at in Florida
SOUTH: But the bird is facing west

Six Sentence Story: The Mousetrap of the Misguiding Muse

Bob told everyone he followed the Bible as closely as the next guy. However, when he read something he didn’t like, on those rare occasions when he read the Bible at all, the muse guiding his philosophical wanderings soothed his mind with a strand of myth, mystery and misinterpretation.

Nonetheless God enjoyed listening to Bob, because when the muse ran Bob’s mouth God couldn’t stop laughing (I mean He could stop but – you know – why would He want to). When Bob died, God looked forward to meeting him so He could ask him some trick questions just to hear how his muse might respond.

Unfortunately, right at the last moment, just outside the Pearly Gates and in spite of all the warning signs, the muse guiding Bob’s philosophical wanderings led him to that omnivorous, omni-awesome black hole, so logically logical that even Lucifer could get used to living there. Then, as Bob gazed down, deep, and ever deeper into the bottomless pit, the mousetrap snapped taking Bob with it into that dark abyss where some say not even light can escape if there were any light down there to try.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Bridges

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

Below are pictures of two bridges in Prague that I took last summer.

The first two show up close views of part of two statues on the Charles Bridge. The last shows another bridge in the distance with swans.

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From the Charles Bridge in Prague: a mixture of part of a statue on the bridge and scenery
Part of another statue on the Charles Bridge with a building in the background
If you ignore the swans, in the distance is a bridge, not the Charles Bridge because there aren’t any statues on it, but still in Prague

Thursday Doors: President James K. Polk’s Birthplace

Since the James K. Polk Site near Charlotte, North Carolina, is only four miles away and offers easy bike access to the Little Sugar Creek Greenway, I go there often.

Here are photos of the doors on the early 1800s style buildings. These aren’t the original Polk family buildings, but they are representative buildings from the area.

There are also guided tours through the buildings and a museum.

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The red stuff would have been clay from the Little Sugar Creek a few hundred feet away, but is now reinforced with a cement of some sort.
A view of the cabin with the main hearth.
A view from the garden.

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Linked to Thursday Doors.

Ritva at Ritva Sillanmäki Photography
Ritva at Ritva Sillanmäki Photography

Six Sentence Story: Pop

“After all these years of searching I’ve found nothing – nada – zip – that would explain how there could be life of any sort in any universe,” Brian told his grandchildren, “which makes me wonder what lit the fuse that got us here.”

But didn’t it all just pop out of nothing?

By itself!?

Yeah, we heard it went pippity-pop like pop corn, grandpops.

What in the world do they teach you kids in school these days? Nothing like that could ever happen.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art For Art’s Sake

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

It occurred to me that most art on display has an ulterior motive even as it pretends to be minding its own business.

These are all up-close photos of large palm branches that fell to the ground.

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Palm branch with spots of light
Wavy palm branch
Another fallen palm branch
The still, small voice inside said, “Take the picture.” But it’s just another palm branch, I replied. Then I got the silent treatment. So, I took the picture. “Don’t forget to post it somewhere.”