Near the center of Pineville, North Carolina, is a 0.8 mile hiking trail.
This is the most difficult trail I’ve been on this year, but on a scale of 1-10 it is only a 3. It is not paved. It is only 4 feet wide. It goes up and down through the woods ending at the train tracks.
Nonetheless, the trail is clearly marked and a pleasant walk.
Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.
Dale offers the prompt “moss, ferns and fungus” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
It just so happens I have recently run into some fungus on my walks around the Carolinas.
Here are some photos.
I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.
The photos tell their tales with the help of captions.
Once upon a time in the really good old days the tooth fairy fooled tiny tots into thinking she was the one who left the pennies, and as inflation increased, the nickels, the dimes, the quarters and then even a dollar(!) under their pillows in exchange for their fallen out teeth. This was an easy job since the children’s own parents came up with the coins, made the argument and then let her take all the credit.
However, the day came – as inevitably it would – when children stopped believing (and/or parents stopped telling) tales that a tooth fairy might really want their teeth so she began to do odd jobs on the side. There were many opportunities, but she had to pretend to be someone (or something) other than who (or what) she really was which annoyed her.
But work is work and you have to do what you have to do which now included gigs where she played the last universal common ancestor, the big bang, deep dark matter, the mysterious multiverse or God knows what nonsense next. She had no clue what any of this stuff was, but as long as the children knew, since children normally knew quite well what they were told to know, she was as happy as any tooth fairy could be, so happy, in fact, that she decided she might as well – whether she deserved it or not and most likely she didn’t – live happily ever after.
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Denise offers the prompt word “stop” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
McMullen Creek Greenway in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a long winding trail along the McMullen Creek with access to another trail.
The road is wide, gravelly and flat. There is a wetlands to one side. On the other are older homes.
Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.
Dale offers the prompt, “an autumn walk”, for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The weather was beautiful today, Friday. Earlier I walked around McDowell Nature Preserve.
Here are some of the photos I took. These are fresh off my phone’s camera.
All of these limericks were originally posted to Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick or somewhere else during the month of September 2026.
Chew On This Limerick
When I chew I knew you would chew, too,
as the two of us do what we do.
Which is what? I don’t know.
May we do it all though
as we chew on this limerick, too.
Prompt word: “chew” September 7, 2026
Magical Nothing
Oh, there once was some nothing that said,
“I am nothing, just something you’ve read
or you’ve heard. That is all
and my tales are tall,
but with nothing your minds have been fed.”
Wonderful Task
Oh, the task that I got that fine day
was so wonderful all I could say,
“Is this really for me?”
Yes it is! Now, we’ll see
if you’ll do it or go off and play.
Prompt word: “task” September 14, 2026
Frying Up Some Verse
You’re awake? I will fry up some verse
with our breakfast all yummy and terse.
We will start this day right
since it’s no longer night
and delight that my rhyme can’t get worse.
Prompt word: “fry” September 21, 2026
Tight Argumentation
The fine reasoning seemed to be tight
like a lim’rick strung through the night
when the neighbors complain
of the noise and the pain
only prove that the proof wasn’t right.
Prompt word: “tight” September 28, 2026
I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.
The photos tell their tales with the help of captions.
