word of the day challenge

The Drowned Fisherman

/ animar64 / 2 Comments

Word of The Day Challenge: PRESENT

I also challenged myself to only write about the things that I could see or taking place in this picture.

The drowned fisherman
Michael Ancher1896

In a small room with smooth whitewashed walls, a drowned fisherman  has been laid to rest on an oak table that he built years ago with his own rough and calloused  hands.

Sunlight is being  filtered through a single dusty window just above his head and little droplets of ocean water, caught in his hair and his beard glisten like little bits of broken glass in pale light that strikes his face and chest.

Around his resting place where his wife is clutching his hand to her chest, where  his  Mother and son are staring  down blindly  into his pale face, where  his crew are holding their breath, all of them  want to know- how can it be that in that room full of  beating hearts and plans for tonight, dreams for tomorrow,  can death be here with them?

He will open his eyes they are thinking, he will take a breath and to the marrow of their bones they believe he will sit up and together they will leave that room together and return to their work and their life at Sea.

There is a dark man with no face sitting across from the Drowned Fisherman and he knows better then all of the people in that room what will happen next- he and the Drowned Fisherman.

Gates

/ animar64 / Leave a comment

Word of the Day Challenge: TOURIST

Photographer Unknown

I was thinking about gates and doorways because I am putting together ideas for my Halloween stories and I’m thinking that’s a neat theme to weave my stories together- it keeps the reading experience  from getting clunky as you move from one post to the next.

First thing I noted- doorways to the Underworld aren’t always traps ready to send you to your doom- the two temples below are considered gateways to the Underworld and when you look at them it’s obvious to see they mean business and you have a chance to not go in and mess around with worlds that are- as the saying goes, ” above your pay grade ”

Secondly,  gate at the top of this post really doesn’t tell you anything except, ” go on, look at me all normal- I’m just doing what gates do. I’m just standing here. ” That gate scares me- in a good way of course.

All in all I find these three gates interesting, I think I’m going to play tourist and see what I come up as I do a little more exploring here:

Palace at Mitla
The name Mitla is derived from the Nahuatl name Mictlán, meaning the “place of the dead” or “underworld.” Its Zapotec name is Lyobaa, which means “place of rest.”

 

Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari

Everyone Is A Comedian Now

/ animar64 / 3 Comments

Word of the Day Challenge: SUSPENDED

One of my FB friends sent me these pictures from Zillo Gone Wild and asked me-

Hey Anita are you selling your house?

LOL!!!

First of all, I don’t live in Texas- which is where this house is.

Second, I can’t imagine why-even if you are joking you- would suspend your commitment to reality-  when in the pictures you spent God knows how many minutes you spent time looking at,  there are some obvious truths are glaring at you straight in the face:

I mean COME ON- anyone who knows me would tell you straight up I don’t like floral prints and who the heck would hang a lighting fixture that low over an embalming table?

Do you think for one second I would do that? That I would slap flowers all over my rugs and walls and scatter them all over my table tops?

REALLY?

Because if you do it’s obvious you don’t know me.

Listing via photos Via:
Big Country Realty Group KW Synergy
Tina Irias, REALTOR
tinairias@bigcountryrealtygroup.com

A Balmy Scenario

/ animar64 / Leave a comment

I have to wonder who it was that looked at the sap on the side of a tree, or maybe  oozing from a plant, stuck their finger into it and as they watched  it coat their

fingertip

said to the person who was  with them on that day

 ” hey, do I have a great idea for this stuff! “

Myroxylon peruiferum.

and then the person they were with that day ( I’ll bet it was a nice warm Spring  afternoon with Honey  Bees and Lady Bugs and birds flying around ) asked while staring at

the goo on their Companion’s fingertip and

probably wondered where they were going to wipe it clean  asked

” and  what is your great idea ? “

Photographer Unknown Bee Balm Plant-

and that person, who saw the sap on the side of a tree or maybe on a plant and now had a dab of it on the tip of their finger  said:

Inspired By The Word of the Day Challenge: BALSAM