
Posts Tagged ‘children’
Feeling
Posted: February 13, 2021 in One Word SundayTags: cute, children, One Word Sunday, #OWS, One Word Sunday: feeling, feeling
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #131-Emotions
Posted: January 16, 2021 in Lens-Artist Photo ChallengeTags: animals, Arizona, cactus, children, deer, emotions, Ilinois, Lens-Artist Photo Challenge, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #131-Emotions, longhorn, W.C. Fields, Wyoming
Patti’s set us a challenge today, that of sharing photos the convey emotion. I don’t take lots of photos of people, but humans aren’t the only ones who express emotions. What emotions do you see?


Can’t resist a reprise of my W.C. Fields cactus. 🙂
Tentative love
Posted: November 23, 2015 in Animals, Dogs, PhotoRehabTags: #photo101rehab, children, dogs, Love, Photo101 Rehab, portraits
Usually on Monday I participate in Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge. But Sally will be not only cyber-free but visiting relatives this week, so there’s no challenge. Instead, I thought I’d share a photo I took earlier this year along Naperville’s Riverwalk, a lovely length of pavement that winds through the downtown. I took my camera and sat on a bench, waiting to see who or what came by. This meeting brought a smile to my face. The little boy wanted to pet the dog but as you can see, he was a bit cautious.
Do you prefer color or black and white?
Hands full
Posted: October 10, 2015 in Miscellaneous, PhotoRehabTags: children, fun, Photo101 Rehab, portrait
Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Portraiture…Indian Independence Day
Posted: August 24, 2015 in Phoneography ChallengeTags: children, dancing, Indian Independence Day, iPhoneography, Portraiture, Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge
Our city has a large Indian (Asian) population and our church has an Indian ministry. Every year, we host a celebration for Indian Independence Day. This year’s festivities featured the most adorable children acting and dancing and as I’ve been edging into more portraits or people photography, I decided to go in that direction for this week’s challenge. Here’s one of the shots from that day. Do you prefer it in color or black and white?
Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Challenger’s Choice…Sugar and spice and everything nice
Posted: June 22, 2015 in Phoneography ChallengeTags: 100 word story, children, photos of people, Portraiture, Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge, Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge: Challenger's Choice
I rarely venture into portraiture, but this little girl on the plane caught both my eye and my camera. I offer her as the subject for “Challenger’s Choice” and hope you find her as cute as I did. (Even though it appears that Mom is wearing a nun’s habit or something similar, it’s only the seat back.)
Feel free to join in the challenge if you like to take photos with any non-traditional camera. We’re a friendly group and always enjoy new company. A link to Sally’s site will be here once she’s put up her post, approximately 8 am EST.
Friday Fictioneers–Black Friday
Posted: November 12, 2014 in Friday FictioneersTags: 100 word story, children, flash fiction, Friday Fictioneers
One hundred words aren’t many to tell a story. Yet every week, a large group of authors gather to try to do just that, then share their stories with other authors and readers. We call ourselves Friday Fictioneers, as the photo prompt used to be posted on Friday. Now it’s posted early Wednesday morning (at least in the US) and the stories come fast and furious, continuing throughout the week. If you’d like to read more stories, click on the blue critter at the end of my story. If you want to participate, go to the site of Rochelle, our hostess, read the “rules”, write and post your story.
copyright Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Black Friday
“Fran, let’s go to the fitting room.”
No answer.
I turned around. No little blonde-headed girl. Trying not to panic, I scanned the store.
“Francesca?”
Nothing.
Mouth dry, I hurried to the front of the store, perusing the crowds clogging the street. No chance of spotting one five-year-old. Frantic, I pulled out my cell, started punching 9-1-1.
“Mommy.”
I whirled.
Nothing.
“Fran?”
“Mommy, can you find me?”
“No, honey. Where are you?”
Her blonde head popped out from under the circular clothes rack. “You couldn’t find me!”
“No, honey, I couldn’t.”
Torn between relief and anger, I simply hugged her.
Still only a penny!
Posted: May 19, 2013 in MiscellaneousTags: children, horses, Meier, miscellaneous, penny, riding, what can you buy for one cent?
Friday Fictioneers–Lavender Blue
Posted: April 10, 2013 in Family, Friday FictioneersTags: children, family, flash fiction, lavender, loss, memories, moving on, Provence, remembrance, writing
How many years does it take for children’s songs to fade from your brain? The answer seems to be an infinite number, so choose those songs carefully! Our girls loved Sharon, Lois, and Bram and one of the songs they sang comes from Burl Ives and before him from folk song history. It’s called “Lavender Blue” and the lyrics and lovely melody SL&B sang have been in my head all these years. It inspired the title of this week’s story.
If you’re new to Friday Fictioneers, each week on Wednesday, a number of addicted writers wait with great anticipation for the photo prompt selected by our hostess-with-the-most-ess, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. We then cudgel our brains a/o wait for the muse to strike us (hard), then craft our stories for the week with the best hundred words we can choose. If you’d like read more stories, click on the little blue guy at the end of my story, sit back, and enjoy. Feel free to “like” and comment too. We writers love interaction with our readers. And if you’d like to join, the door’s always open.
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Lavender Blue
Lavender perfumes the patio where we linger over déjeuner with local wine, basking in the sun, relishing food chosen at the village market.
Once children are gone, it’s time to move on. We took “move” literally, leaving the town where we’d lived and had a child. Choosing Provence had been easy, finding the house more difficult. This house attracted us with its quirky sculpture. It remains a now-bearable reminder of the tricycle David was riding when the drunk driver’s car jumped the curb, hitting him as he joyously wheeled along the sidewalk.
Lavender perfumes the urn tucked in the garden.
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Lavender Blue
(Sharon, Lois and Bram)
 Lavender’s blue
Dilly dilly
Lavender’s green
If I were king
Dilly dilly
You’d be my queen
Who told you so
Dilly dilly
Who told you so
I told myself
Dilly dilly
I told me so