Abby likes to sleep on her back with her feet up in the air. It doesn’t look comfortable to me, but what do I know. I try to sneak up on her for a photograph but no matter how quiet I think I am, she hears me and turns over. Here she is stretching, after one of my failed efforts at being really, really quiet.
A frog made from rock, sitting on a rock.
I saw some snail shells and decided to photograph them. It was only when I looked through my camera lens that I saw there were snails still in the shells!
This snail was moving so fast, it blurred the photo! (Okay, it was probably camera operator error (me!), but still!)
Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!
The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo. Mine is just a wee bit late this week, as I was out and about for several days on a field trip.
Photo copyright CE Ayr
The Boy Next Door
“I don’t like him coming here.” Jiang looked out the window at his garden, his pride and joy.
A new family had moved in next door and their son, Ying, roamed about the neighborhood, causing mischief.
“He’ll find playmates and then we won’t see him at all.” Kwan kissed her husband. “Time to go.”
Kwan and Jiang returned home late from the festivities. The morning’s light showed the trees’ reflection on the still water, something Jiang had never seen before.
In disbelief, he rushed outside, splashing about, wondering just how the creek’s water had been diverted to his garden.
“YING!”
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To read other Friday Fictioneer stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.
Every few years I decide to take up knitting again. I knit a few scarves and then move on to another hobby. This year I decided to take a class. (I love taking classes!)
As most of us in the beginning class knew a little something about knitting already, we each decided to make a cowl. Here’s how it goes: Cast on 70 stitches. Join. Knit while the working yarn is thin; purl when the working yarn is thick. Bind off.
How hard can it be?
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Here’s what I ended up with.
Cowl in progress. Looking okay.
Finished cowl. Not so sure about it now.
I was so proud of myself for finishing the cowl before the second class, that is, until I showed my work to the instructor. She was very nice; one of those who murmurs, “Well, isn’t that interesting.”
One problem I had is that I didn’t know what it was supposed to look like. Somehow the instructor hadn’t shown us the shop sample in the first class. Oh.
Shop sample. Mine doesn’t look anything like it.
Where did I go wrong? Probably in more than one place, from the looks of it. I bought another skein of yarn and tried it again.
My second effort.
Here are both cowls, the first effort on top. I’m not sure what to do with the first one. It’s too short to be a hula skirt.
