Today is day 31 of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge and of Inktober. Today’s prompt is landmark. The bears had walked up the mountain, not to the summit, but to a den on the side of the mountain. In that den, they would sleep. They always recognized that den because, inside, there was a wood carving, […]
Today is day 29 of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge and of Inktober. The prompt for today is “navigator.” After night fell and the ground was full of shadows, Bearnacle Bear and his Poppa went to look at the stars. “How will you know where you are going when you are far out at sea?” asked
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Day 24 of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge and Inktober. Today’s prompt is expedition. Baby Bear woke up early and saw the sun rising from behind the mountains. The sky’s colors looked like the sea, but it wasn’t the sea; it was the colorful sky. Baby Bear thought, “Someday, I will be on a great ship,
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The bears had arrived at a meadow, surrounded by hedges that were neatly trimmed by… someone? In the center of the meadow, there was a large maze. Baby Bear and some of the other cubs ran through it gleefully. The adult bears looked at it and laughed. They asked each other if they were lost,
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When did I become a birdwatcher? Ummmmmmm. I really don’t know. It’s one of these things that sort of happened when I was least expecting it. One day, I was wondering how realistic Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, “The Birds,” was. And, before I knew it, I was saying, “Oooh, is that a Baltimore Oriole?” I really
On a clear day, you can see forever… Bird flying high, you know how I feel… Sunrise, sunset, swiftly fly the days… Here comes the sun (Here goes the sun??) “My time of day is the nighttime…” listening for the “black bird singing in the dead of night.”
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At last, it really feels like spring. After snow and wind and freezing weather, spring has finally arrived. Today, I was out for a walk and I saw two geese and their family of nine goslings. The whole family was pecking at the ground. I would guess that they were looking for something to eat.
Today, I am sharing images of things that live so beautifully that you can’t help but notice them. When I was much, much younger, I was afraid of bees, probably because I didn’t know what would cause them to sting. For the same reason, I was afraid of balloons because the popping hurt my ears,
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The winning captions are… Balancing Act (caption by Lily Leung) It’s a tie!!!!! Here are the two captions: I miss you! (caption by Lily Leung) and What are you looking at?(caption by Martha DeMeo) Oh sure, you guys are trying to impress me with your spiky horns (caption by Kebba Buckley Button) Here are all
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The theme is… “If these critters could talk, what would they say?“ Below are three photographs. Let your imagination go wild and write a caption for one, two, or three of the photos! Your deadline to enter is Wednesday At that point, I will close entries so that my judge team is able to make
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