Sue Perry's Blog: Required Writing, page 27

Meanwhile, Later Than Same Nap

Recently I posted a photo of my cat Luna enjoying a nap in a window breeze.  While Luna slept, one of the kittens, Leo, spotted him and took time out from his daily backyard frolicking in order to approach Luna. Below are photos of the encounter. Some backstory needed here. Luna is 10 years old, […]

Talk About Refreshing!

On summer afternoons, a lovely breeze comes through this window. What better place to plant one’s hindquarters for a nap? This week’s Photo Challenge wants to see fresh, which it defines as a state (new, recent, previously unknown) and a taste or sensation (cool, sweet, invigorating, refreshing). 

But If You Hit a Slow Spell…

One of the all time great love songs is If You Were a Bluebird by Butch Hancock. Hancock is an amazing yet relatively unknown songwriter. I learned about him and this song by being a Joe Ely fan. I love the fact that Butch and Joe have been friends for decades, along with Jimmie Dale […]

Fresh Bloom

This week’s Photo Challenge wants to see fresh, which it defines as a state (new, recent, previously unknown) and a taste or sensation (cool, sweet, invigorating, refreshing).  This hibiscus blossom has just opened to grace my patio for a day.

My Fresh Son

This week’s Photo Challenge wants to see fresh, which it defines as a state (new, recent, previously unknown) and a taste or sensation (cool, sweet, invigorating, refreshing). There is an additional state of fresh and when the dictionarists adds it, they are welcome to illustrate the concept with a photo of my son.

Adulterated Joy

A friend sends me a link to the sweetest video ever, a baby elephant enjoying the ocean. Who could not love watching this? It induces unadulterated joy! Until I learn that this elephant – and others – have been exploited by Thailand resorts.  I hate that.  I want to stop that. I certainly don’t want to […]

Staycations Away From Home

My favorite kind of traveling is to plant myself somewhere new and stay for a while, to get a sense of what it would be like to live there. I’m not drawn to monuments or tourist meccas, even though I know those places get famous for a reason. I’d rather wander neighborhoods, sample restaurants, find […]

All the Blues Imaginable

One of the great treats about being alive and on this planet is getting to see the ocean at sunrise and sunset. I am always staggered by the number of different colors in the water. I’ve yet to get a photo that comes close to capturing it, but maybe that’s okay. Because I don’t have […]

Manhattan, Very Early

Last year I got to take my kids to New York for a few days. Our return flight was early one morning. I love this shot of my son – up way before his body clock would usually allow – taking in his last views of Manhattan before we departed. We were almost the only ones […]

States of Mind

Today’s Daily Prompt requests a post opposite to what I usually make. Thus and voila, a cartoon. I often imagine that I have one of these signs on my forehead. (I don’t  manage to imagine that I look like Garbo, however.) Garbo photograph by Cecil Beaton.