Photo Challenge 2023

Treat Time

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Experience Writing  Photo Challenge: Seeing In The Dark ( Treat)

When I am out walking my dog along the same route we take everyday, I could say dramatically- ” This walk is so boring, there is nothing to see. ” Then with a clear conscious  I could stare into my phone or the back of my dog’s head and WILL him to  potty so that we could go in and eat snacks.

But that’s not true.

On that same stretch of road I see big things like crows in the middle of an air fight with an eagle.  Sometimes I see things that shouldn’t be there-  like bears or odd people standing nonchalantly next to cars that do not belong to them.

Sometimes I see little things that I can add to  my curious shelf- little bits of bone, egg shells that fall from the birds nest, dried flowers.

I know that is why  I consider this picture that I got to be a treat- because to me it is both odd and curious:

Photo A.M. Moscoso

I looked down and there in the dark on the ground I saw two perfect Autumn leaves side by side.

Placed there by human hands or not, by fate or just the wind blowing in the right direction,  I ‘m glad I saw them there.

amm

1912 Was Different

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The Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Broken
There are groups that clean and repair aged and damaged tombstones. Nobody
is going to fix this one. That is sad, but I think it’s told it’s story. Most stories
come to an end and they stay that way.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Puyallup Cemetery

This tomb had nobody left to care for it, so it’s falling to dust bit by bit.  Relationships

are like that, aren’t they?

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Saint Louis Cemetery Number One
October 31, 2012

This gravestone isn’t broken like the ones above.

Baby Boy Floyd was born in 1912 and he died on the same day.

What broke on that day in December back in 1912 isn’t buried here- things like that are never

really able to be laid to rest. They live on and haunt us.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Bear Creek Cemetery/Turner Cemetery
Washington state.

Hamish Says ” Cheese “

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Yesterday I thought I would do a Photo Challenge that I’ve seen floating around FB where you tell your dog he’s a Good Boy. You’re supposed to snap a picture or record  their reaction. My newsfeed on FB was chock full of happy looking dogs and I wanted my dog to be one of them.

The thing is Hamish doesn’t really like to pose for pictures so the one other time I did the challenge  Hamish slouched, put his head down and  he refused to look up at me when I said his name. So I passed on the challenge. I’m not going to make my dog do something that he really doesn’t need to do.

Yesterday was different.

This time when I told him he was a good boy he looked right at me and did this:

Hamish Macbeth
August 29,2023
Photo: A.M. Moscoso

Then I told him to smile and he did the head tilt and did this:

Hamish Macbeth
August 29, 2023
Photo: A.M. Moscoso

I don’t know if that was a smile, or if he was doing what he’s trained to do- when something unexpected happens or he doesn’t understand a command,  Hamish is suppose to sit in front of me and look me in the eye. Then he gets his instructions or reassurances and we go from there.

Like I said, I don’t know if he was waiting for me to get my act together or if that was a smile.

Just to let  you know,  my vote is for smile because everytime I look at these two pictures I can’t help but to smile and laugh a big old hearty laugh.

amm

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