Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 28 – Glorious

07 Jun 2016 25 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Photography, Poems Tags: #Hugh'sweeklyphotochallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Glorious, Helsinki, Hugh's Photo Challenge, Peacocks, Scarlet Ibises

Tuesday is also Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge!

The prompt this week is Glorious.

1. Take or choose a photo that you’ve taken which interprets Glorious.
2. Create a new post on your blog entitled “Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 28 – ‘Glorious’
3. Add the photo(s) you have taken to the post and tell us a little about what you are showing.
4. Create a pingback to this post or leave a link to your post in the comments section so other participants can view the post.

So there were some glorious views in Helsinki while we were there, last week, but something else struck me as ‘glorious’. The colour of these Scarlet Ibises…

And the colours on the tail feathers of this Peacock…

The vibrant colours
Of these birds of a feather
Simply glorious

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#RomanticTuesday – Eternity

07 Jun 2016 20 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #RomanticTuesday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Eternity, poem, tanka

So, it’s not like I have nothing better to do… the last term of the academic year means my first set of end of year reports, and that is a BIG task!

But then my Blog Sis Erika throws me a spin ball, and I have to hit it! She has opened the challenge to write something romantic on a Tuesday! #RomanticTuesday.

Heart, Hands, West, Love, Trust, Eternity, Woman

Image from Pixabay

Eternity – A Tanka

When two become one
Unspoken vows are taken
Simply, hearts exchanged
A love that lasts forever
Promise of eternity

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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #100 Top&Light

06 Jun 2016 14 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge, Top & Light

Wow! Ron! Your challenge has hit it’s first century!

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Image.

The prompt words – Light & Top

I was trying to be serious today, and wanted to write something really meaningful… it didn’t quite happen, all I could think of was silly stuff! Think it’s because I am in a heightened state of excitement with the Bloggers bash so close!

So here are my two entries!

Cake

Freshly baked sponge cake
A light dusting of sugar
To top it all off

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Exposed

Please be most aware
If you are wearing a sheer top
Bright lights shine right through!

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Thursday photo prompt – Isolated… #writephoto

04 Jun 2016 16 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Fiction, isolated, Sue Vincent

Sue gave us another great photo prompt this week!

Alongside the word Isolated, we have this photo to work with…

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A dark silhouette of a building came into view.

“Perfect setting, isn’t it?”

Peter, looked over at Mandy, who was bouncing excitedly in the passenger seat.

“You know how I love a good Whodunnit Weekend, and I think they have surpassed themselves with the venue this time!”

I looked over at the view and had to agree. It wasn’t really my cup of tea, but I had wanted to impress her, and her mates told me that this was what she was into.

The building looked so… creepy. I was tempted to back out, but I couldn’t look like a wimp in front of her!

On the other side of the lane was a grim looking black forest… Oh, this gets better and better…

The saving grace was the view… That sunset. I was glad I had packed my camera. If nothing else, at least I could get some good shots for my portfolio.

Oh and the fact that if she was suitably impressed, I might get lucky!

With that thought, I pressed down on the accelerator.

TJ’s Household Haiku – Iron

04 Jun 2016 16 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Iron, tanka

Saturday is TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – and the prompt word is IRON.

Image from Google – Shuttestock

I thought of the irons and ironing in India when I have been to visit. There are obviously irons on India, and most households will have one, but there is this luxury that us in the western world would appreciate greatly!

Even though I love ironing, (really!) when the heat is hitting 40 degrees C, there is definitely a chance that I won’t want to stand there pressing clothes!

So this is when you phone the dhobi wala, or press wala. Basically the laundry, or ironing man.

He comes to your house with a bike that has a huge wooden table attached to the back of it, and a heavy coal fuelled iron, like the one in the image above, then he stand in your veranda and irons all your clothes for under £2-3!

Or if it is too hot,or you aren’t in a hurry, he takes your basket of clothes, and delivers them back to you later, fully ironed!

And they are ironed to perfection! You just have to be careful to explain if you have high fashion clothes that require creases in the places they are, or if you have jeans that want NO creases, because once that heavy iron hits your clothes, there is no going back crease-wise!!

So, onto my haiku (tanka) for today…