Liquid: Black & White

Posted on May 17, 2015 by treshabarger

A little rain off the back porch

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Liquid

Rain Enough

Posted on May 14, 2015 by treshabarger

Rain enough, and more
That Black-bellied Whistling Ducks
Swim across my yard

Two Black-bellied Whistling Ducks swimming in my yard because there has been so much rain

Not too deep, not too shallow, just right

Forces of Nature: Weekly Photo Challenge

Posted on May 13, 2015 by treshabarger

A severe storm ran through central Texas May 14, 2008, much like the weather we are having now (May, again). I walked around the Texas Capitol on my break May 15th. On the north side, you could definitely tell a storm had come through by the broken branches. On the south side, it looked as if a tornado had hit. A tornado did not do this damage, but the winds were almost tornado strength. Old oak trees were uprooted and torn branches hung from many trees.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature

Paradise: Fiction Friday

Posted on April 24, 2015 by treshabarger

Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Paradise

“Commune with nature,” they said. “See polar bears walk by,” they said. “Your very own cabin,” they said. “A veritable Arctic Circle paradise,” they said. She signed up, wanting to be away from everything and everyone.

No one had said anything about summer snow storms. She could barely see the next domed cabin.

She was grateful for the heating that worked, the fully-stocked kitchenette, and the electric blanket. In the bookcase, she found the complete works of Agatha Christie, PD James, and Ruth Rendell. Maybe paradise is white, cold, and isolated, she thought, reaching for Murder on the Orient Express.
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