Write about anything you’d like, but make sure that all seven colors of the rainbow — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet — make an appearance in the post, either through word or image.
Here’s my gallery.
Chibuzor in red
Orange Datura
Team Yellow
The Green Circle
Dickens Blue
Indigo Sky
Violet Campanula
And a song I’ve always loved
If you would like to post or sing a rainbow, join in here at the Daily Post.
Aayusi has kindly nominated me for the Quotes Challenge today! I hadn’t heard of it until then, but suddenly it’s everywhere. The idea is to post a favourite quote for three days and nominate three people to join in. Here is my Day One.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. Then you will see what medicines they make, and where and when to apply them. That is the work. The only work.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Thank you again Aayusi!
I won’t choose anyone, but instead invite anyone who would like to join in to do so.
A couple of years ago, after being on a waiting list for years, my friend acquired an allotment, ‘Lindy’s Lot’. Since then I have been helping to tend it whenever I can. I grew up knowing about growing plants, from digging and pulling weeds, along with some ‘not weeds’, with my granddad.
Lindy’s lot came with a mini orchard of old apple and pear trees, which have the makings of an abundant crop in a few months time.
Apple cake?
Future pear chutney
The birds will get these!
Tonight I’ve been watering, I must have carried a hundred watering cans the length of the plot. A standard allotment measures ten rods, and the tap is out on the grass path. My arms and shoulders ache but the strawberries make it worth it.
There are many to come.
Hoping the birds won’t get too many
I watered potatoes, onions, beetroot, cabbage, courgettes etc.
My favourite crop last year was the blackcurrants, they made fabulous blackcurrant jelly.
Promising a good crop
The raspberries have a long way to go.
But the blueberries are looking very good.
“The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.”
― Joel Salatin
This post was inspired by Tish, who has a very productive allotment and has Obsessive Compulsive Compost Disorder, and Rachel’s Facebook photos of her glorious veggie patch!
That’s what I thought when I saw this one at Lympstone last week. I immediately wondered how it would look with a touch of processing for Jude’s challenge this month.
A trolls bench
I only used two steps to create this effect, first of all I cropped away a big expanse of dull brick wall and paving in the foreground. Once I was happy with the content, I tried a few filters and decided that Photoshop Elements Ink Outlines within artistic/brush strokes was all it needed.
This week, we challenge you to show us what off-season means to you. It could be the shuttered ice-cream stand in the Southern Hemisphere where winter is drawing near. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere it might your snowmobile peeking out from beneath its tarp, or your Christmas decorations arranged neatly in the attic. Feel free to interpret this theme loosely — consider objects at rest and unmoved, places that are stagnant or abandoned.
Can’t wait to see how you interpret this challenge!
This is Krista’s challenge at the daily Post this week. I struggled to think of anything until I re-read the last sentence and then it fell into place.
The paraphernalia of the world of fishing and the sea shore fascinates me, I have no idea what most of it is, but I do like to photograph it. So here are some photos taken in winter on the beach at Budleigh Salterton in Devon.
In a local park there is a sensory garden, filled with fragrant flowers and plants that are lovely to touch. I’d love to be able to capture the scent, but the best I could manage was this photo of a seedhead on my phone.
Inspired by Jude’s bench challenge, I’ve been dabbling with editing a again recently and this pic seemed like one to try.
So I sent it to my tablet and opened it with Pixlr, dropped it four times into a collage and tweaked the colour slightly. The last thing I did was to pick the creative option, Gadelf, before sending it back to Photoshop on my laptop., where I simply used enhance/auto level to get the result above.
The last thing I did was to pick the creative option, Gadelf, before sending it back to Photoshop on my laptop., where I simply used enhance/auto level to get the result above.
Lucid Gypsy 