This trail is in one of the county parks in Charlotte, North Carolina.
It is a great place to walk dogs.
Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.
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Trail: County Park in Charlotte
Category: Photography
June 2026 Limericks
All of these limericks were originally posted to Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick during the month of June 2026.
Road Hog Limerick
Like a hog he was hogging the road
and we honked all the more as he slowed.
Well, we all tried to pass
but we couldn’t alas
and we’re still to this day on that road.
Prompt word: “road” June 1, 2026
Jelly Donut(s) Love Song
They filled a fine donut with jelly
and they said it was good for my belly.
Well, the first tasted good
as my mouth knew it would.
The first dozen were just too much jelly.
Prompt word: “jelly” June 8, 2026 (modified)
Winter’s Chills and Summertime
There are birds with their bright shiny bills.
There are words that delight with their thrills.
There’s a this for each that.
Here’s a kiss for my cat.
There is summer to fight winter’s chills.
Prompt word: “bills” June 15, 2026 (modified)
Busy Train
There once was a tiny toy train
protected from weather like rain.
It went “choo-choo” all day
in a circular way
and it circled again and again.
Prompt word: “train” June 23, 2026
The Weed Has Gone To Seed
It is true that the plant is a weed.
I’m the gardener, I know, so I need
to get off of my butt,
get my hoe out. Now what?
It’s too late? The weed’s long gone to seed?
Prompt word: “weed” June 29, 2026
Cosmic Photo Challenge: Look To The Skies
Dale offers the prompt “look to the skies” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Some of these were taken a few months ago.
Actually all of them were taken a few months ago.
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Six Sentence Story: Room 215 Found!
When I failed to find Room 215 I went back to the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro to ask for directions again. I was told to take the first hall to the left and then the second hall to the right and then I could charge right in to capture the mysterious story I was looking for.
When I returned unsuccessful again, the tall, thin man asked me to raise my left hand and when I raised my hand, he said, “I thought so.” He tied a waiter’s towel around the wrist of my other hand and told me to not overthink it but this time take the first hall in the direction of the hand with the towel tied to it and then take the hall in the direction of the hand without the towel tied to it.
I went back, overthinking it all the way, and I found Room 215! I took a deep breath and opened the door.
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Denise offers the prompt word “charge” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Revelation 22:18-19
Six Sentence Story: Sky Blue Joy
The best burden to bear is one that is light. I mean, who wants a heavy load and no one wants one so light that he floats away. Gravity has its advantages, you know, as long as joy keeps your hearts afloat.
And so the babbling, like a charge of Don Quijote, went on and on and on, but eventually – thank God – it was over.
Larry wondered what Maggie and he were going to do next. He looked at her and she smiled back.
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Denise offers the prompt word “charge” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Cosmic Photo Challenge: Distortion Using Contrast and Cropping
Dale offers the prompt “distortion” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I use the GIMP photo editor. It’s a free tool with many features I have not explored. I mainly use it to shrink the size of the image and rotate it a bit if I got the horizon wrong.
Here I am going to use the contrast feature of the editor along with cropping.
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Ten Things of Thankful June 20, 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.
Six Sentence Story: Room 215
The amazing thing about Room 215 at the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro is that no one knew it was there until the red-headed writer opened its door and just walked in. Then the tall, thin man followed her to open a secret chamber hidden in that delightfully mysterious room.
After hearing about the room’s mechanical machines and the strange, very short man that emerged from it I went to look for myself. I was wondering if maybe I might find a story there, marvelous and melancholic under its ancient dust, about King Arthur’s Camelot or the Starkeeper’s Carousel to tell others back in the cafe.
However, no matter how many times or how slowly I went up and down the hall where the wonderful room was supposed to be, I couldn’t find it though I had no doubt it was there. Although I came back empty handed, at least as far as marvelous stories go, I still could tell about how I was not going to give up the search.
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Denise offers the prompt word “dust” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
