Today is day seven of Inktober and of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. Today’s prompt is passport. Imagine if you had to get permission to visit the lands of mammals and insects and birds and the waters of the fish. Imagine if the animals themselves gave you permission to visit them. And imagine visiting them and […]
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(It’s day six of Inktober, and the prompt for today is “trek.”) It was the night before the Long Trek to the Mountains, which was when the Bears gathered to sing, dance, tell stories and to give names to the babies that had been born since the last Trek. The Trek didn’t occur every year
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Day four of The Ultimate Blogging Challenge and Inktober. The prompt for today is exotic. The boy picked up his backpack. His parents smiled at him. But the boy was watching Baby Bear, who went into a wooded area near the beach. “I wonder what’s there,” the boy said. “You have a lot of curiosity,”
Baby Bear had fallen asleep in the backpack. He was unaware of being carried into a house, dropped in a corner and then, picked up again and carried again. When the backpack was opened, Baby Bear found himself on a beach. Although he was used to splashing around in the water with his family, this
before he became bearnacle bear, the seafaring bear Today is the first day of the October Ultimate Blogging Challenge. This blogging challenge occurs quarterly. It is also the first day of Inktober. I have to admit that I have completed the Ultimate Blogging Challenge a few times, but I have never completed Inktober. So… it’s
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Today, I went with two friends to the opening day of the Erie County Fair. The entry fee was a donation of four cans of food. All food was going to Feedmore of Western New York. When we arrived and donated our cans, we saw that the bins were overflowing with cans, which meant that
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Today was the 18th Paddles Up in the Niagara River. It’s happened every year until last year, when stormy weather conditions caused its cancelation. I had signed up for an eco hike last year but that didn’t happen. So, I made sure to sign up for this year’s eco hike as quickly as possible. Today
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The prompt for day 36 of the 61-day Daisy Yellow Index Card a Day Challenge is “balance.” The theme for week six is maps. So… in my collage, I have a girl who is dwarfed by a giant rabbit while she walks on a map. Let’s call her Alice. She’s older than she was when
It was a warm and partly sunny day, which is good weather for the parade. It’s the biggest event that is organized by the town. Many people come to watch the parade, which includes dancers, bagpipers, a giant chicken riding a motorcycle, and so much more. Candy flies everywhere, and the kids are eager to
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