Renew in red

#SquareRefresh

One Word Sunday: red

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL MOMS, whether a mom by biology or by love

Breaking! Cotton balls grow on trees!

Six-Word Saturday and #SquaresRenew (burgeoning)

Quintessential desert burgeoning

I love these yucca, which I consider one of the clan of Dr. Seuss plants, quirkily attractive and distinctive, that seem to have sprung from someone’s imagination…which I guess they did: from God’s. ❤️. They’re definitely burgeoning right now.

#SquaresRenew

Thursday Doors…renew

Classic cars have obviously been renewed, making today the perfect intersection of Thursday Doors and Becky’s Square challenge, “renew” being one of her words and these VW’s obviously having doors. Ca ching!

That thing on the door is a swamp cooler, a not-particularly-effective way to try to cool a car without air conditioning. To me it looks more like some sort of weapon, but maybe that just says I read too many thrillers.

Now for the non-square. I love the headlights that look like eyes with eyelids.

And once again another Thursday has come (and maybe gone, depending where you live.) The weeks are flying by and the hot weather gets close and closer. Maybe I’ll attach a swamp cooler to my head. 😳😁

Wordless Wednesday…refresh

#SquareRefresh

Moving forward

Me at about 12, moving forward in one of my favorite ways.

#SquaresRenew 5.7.24

Lens-Artists Challenge #298 – To Be Young Again

“Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

There are a number of poems with the title: “Oh, to be young again,” putting into poetic words what most imagine is an almost universal desire. I’m not sure I’d want to be young again, at least in the sense that many mean it. I wouldn’t mind being 50 or even 60 again, but to go back much farther than that? Probably not.

“Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

However, Tina’s challenge/theme this week for Lens-Artists is “To be Young Again” and I think I’ve found some instances where that wish might be appropriate.

Hmmm, I just re-read her post and realized the she wants us to feature children. I’m getting worse at blindly following directions as I get older, but I’ll try. This next group is comprised of young, non-human children”, such as this baby mourning dove we found in a next in a bush outside my parents’ house.

“Enjoy your youth. You’ll never be younger than you are at this very moment.”― Chad Sugg

I think a squash blossom is a kind of young. If you don’t think so, feel free to consult the squash.

This fern is definitely not an adult yet, but it might be at any moment. Enjoy childhood while you can.

Ducklings are so cute when they’re young and not too bad when they grow up, unlike goslings, who are cute when young and annoying as grownup geese.

On a final, solemn note, those in the cemetery at Omaha Beach would certainly have expressed a desire to be young (and alive) again. Seeing the ages on these crosses helps me appreciate without question the privilege of getting old.

Tina, thanks for not kicking me out for not following directions very well, but I really just initially missed the children requirement in your post. Besides, you know how I’m always trying to push the envelope, perhaps a privilege of age. 🙂

Squares…renewal

Renewing my Toyota 4Runner in the car wash.

SquaresRenew 5.5.24

Burgeoning in Christmas colors in April

Six-Word Saturday and SquaresRenew

When a river burgeons

We almost always hear “burgeoning“, as in “The flowers were burgeoning.” But does a flower ever say, “Hmmm. Looks like a great day to burgeon?” Maybe yesterday it burgeoned too, but who says that? I find it interesting to come across a word that’s almost always used in the -ing form. 🙂

When a river burgeons, it often means trouble, as it did periodically in downtown Naperville. Most people probably say it flooded, but that’s so every day. I prefer to think it burgeoned, as it certainly grew and flourished, much to the dismay of the riverside businesses.

SquaresRenew 5.3.24