Friday Fiction: Full Of Surprises

Posted on May 23, 2014 by treshabarger

“Stop him, please!” The caller identified “him” as Nelson and gave details linking him to two homicides. Calling himself “The Admiral,” Nelson’s bullying started in secondary school; she and many others had the scars to prove it.

Driving through sunshine one minute and mist the next, she smiled at how both life and the countryside were full of surprises.

Nelson saw her entering the pub and shouted, “Hey! Dunce Diana! Still falling down stairs?”

His laughter ended as he watched her. “That’s Detective Chief Inspector Penrith, to you,” she said, reaching for her handcuffs. “You’re under arrest.”

Friday Fictioneer Photo Prompt, copyright Erin Leary

Friday Fictioneers

Sharing Shade

Posted on May 22, 2014 by treshabarger

Our brutal Texas summer is just about here. I offer you some lovely shade, in anticipation.

St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas

Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art (2)

Posted on May 21, 2014 by treshabarger

Faberge Egg

Faberge Opera Glasses

Stained glass window behind a King Arthur-type sword

These items are in exhibits at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. They allow photos of some exhibits, as long as you don’t use a flash.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art

Wrong Side, Right Side

Posted on May 20, 2014 by treshabarger

Learning to paint with oils is a whole new world for me. (Not that I know how to paint with anything else; I don’t.) I now have a new set of supplies to get me started: canvas pads, brushes, paints, cleaning solutions. As far as I can tell, there is only one way for me to learn things: the hard way.

Example: I get to class, open my instruction booklet and pick up where I left off at the end of the previous class. I remove one sheet from the canvas pad and clip it to the support board, load up my paint and off I go with the current lesson.

Or not. First thing the instructor says when she stops by my station (after I’d been painting a while) is, “That’s the wrong side.”