by Robin | Jun 25, 2008 | 40-or-less Photo Challenge, Blog Carnivals, Photos
This week’s Friday’s 40-or-less Photo Challenge is simple but with the potential for great fun. Salt and pepper shakers. Taken for granted and nothing trendy or glamorous about ’em, salt and pepper make THE difference in everything they...
by Robin | Jun 20, 2008 | 40-or-less Photo Challenge, Photos, Poetry
Yesterday, I drove about six hours from Tennessee to South Carolina. By myself. The day couldn’t have been more beautiful, and I e n j o y e d the solitude amidst verdant mountain views and river-winding roads. I listened to the silence.I...
by Robin | Jun 18, 2008 | 40-or-less Photo Challenge, Photos
This is a scene I encountered at my son’s track meet a few weeks ago. Having begun a home-recycling program in earnest last year, when I see a trashcan over-flowing with plastics (and aluminum), it sends me over the edge! For Friday’s...
by Robin | Jun 13, 2008 | 40-or-less Photo Challenge, Food and Drink, Photos, Poetry
An Ode to Corn on the Cob Slathered in butter, Sprinkled with saltRows of sweet kernals, Each one I exalt.Is it veg’table, grain or a fruit?Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a hoot! Sometimes a 40-word limit is welcome, other times it’s...
by Robin | Jun 11, 2008 | 40-or-less Photo Challenge, Blog Carnivals, Favorite things, Food and Drink, Fridays 40-or-less Photo Challenge, Photos
Just thinkin’ about summertime in the South opens my salivary gland floodgates! Oh my ever-lovin’ word–watermelon and cantelopes, squash and okra, home-made ice cream and ice cold sweet tea? Until I got to those last two, you’d...
by Robin | Jun 6, 2008 | 40-or-less Photo Challenge, Poetry
A few things came to mind in response to the picture for this week’s Friday 40, two of them friendship and sin. I wrote a poem about sin first; since it was so weighty, I had to recover by writing one on friendship after all. …which makes me think my...