Small Stone

 

bees drunk on warm pollen below an autumn sunrise ~ a cat yowls next door

Small Stone #31 January 2013

standing under false rain

she turns the grass muddy

with her spinning feet

Small Stone #30 January 2013…and a Chevvy update.

a wet nose

a paw on my chest

a sloppy lick

love expressed more eloquently than I ever could

Update: Chevvy’s lump is a lipoma. It is not going to be a problem hopefully. It’s a start at least.

Speaking of dogs…this video made me weep for Sonya. First from sadness, then from joy. I hope you’ll watch and maybe share and I hope Sonya will find the forever home she deserves.

Small Stone #29 January 2013

tck, tck, tck, tck, tck, tck,

a palm leaf flutters

the breeze arrives to softens the sun’s heat

Small Stone #28 January 2013

the vet said:

“her heart isn’t working properly”

and mine broke

Small Stone #27 January 2013

one moment at a time

is enough in itself

Peacock taking off – Katikati

 

Small Stone #26 January 2013

the woman who stares out at me from the mirror

is not always the woman I know myself to be

Fantasy Self-Portrait

Small Stone # 24 January 2013

the curtains flap,

words and laughter mix with warm air

rising from the pizza,

a summer evening settles in

Small Stone #23 January 2013

a small flash of white tail

hopping over a gazillion ragged grey rocks

run bunny run

I can’t reach you

my arms and legs

swollen, the skin stretched like a balloon

are weighted down like

a cement shoed body in the lake

run bunny run

before I waken

On a completely different subject…meet Loca…I am in love with this little PUG !!!

I am a bad, bad blogger because Alistair introduced me to Loca and I got so carried away with her I forgot to include a link back to his blog. Thank you Alistair for starting me on this love affair with the cutest pug in Ireland.

Small Stone #22

when others you aspire to be as good as

like your efforts

your smile reaches your toes

I started taking part in Photoblog Challenges last year. They have tutorials and themes and I thought it would push me in my photography to get better and to try new techniques. This morning when I visited them I was thrilled to see I had gotten a 2nd place and a 3rd place with two of my shots. January has been an exciting month photography wise. This is a snapshot of the images I have submitted for January. And my smile is still being felt in my toes.

Small Stone #21 January 2013

it’s a tickle

then a throb

driving desire

making a want a need

Small Stone #20 January 2013

thirty seconds of belief

is all you need to fly

Small Stone #19

there are some days

stepping right in to the chaos

is the only way to control it

Small stone #18 January 2013

in the dreariest surroundings we can choose to find the colour…if we want to

And now for a SHAMELESS bit of self promotion.

The 2013 Bloggies are now open for nominations. Chronicles and I would love your support as we have been nominated in a couple of categories. Scroll down to these categories:

• Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog

• Best-Kept Secret Weblog

and pop in

Chronicles of Illusions under nominee

and

https://jobryantnz.wordpress.com/ under URL

If you feel the urge that is. Sadly you have to nominate 3 different unique blogs which means some work on your part. But the more nominations Chronicles gets the more likely to at least be in the finalists.

Read The Rules…before proceeding.

And for a bit of fun and cuteness head over to “Everyone Deserves A Day Off”

Small Stone #17 January 2013

will today be a day
I hide my eyes from life’s harshness
or soothe them within its gentleness

my choice

For all of you in the UK, check this out for a great FREE photography competition to enter. The grand prize is a trip to Churchill, Canada for an Arctic summer adventure: Been There’s Photo Competition.

There are also monthly prizes for each theme.

You can get a list of the year’s themes at the Been There site.

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One more for those of you with London shots: Time Out London has a pretty interesting FREE photography competition.

Small Stone #16 January 2013

in darkness the burglar roams

a definite target in mind

silently padding over the linoleum

searching the shelves

I imagine a pleased smirk

that my carelessness

and an open door

resulted in a treasure found

when I encounter the evidence

left perhaps intentionally

that I would know I’d been bested

Small Stone #15 January 2013

rushing about has become entrenched

sometimes

just sometimes

in between blinks

you can stop the world for a moment

and freeze frame a memory

Now yesterday a man I admire got a Golden Globe Award. Congrats Kevin…you deserve it. You really should see the series “Hatfields & McCoys” if you haven’t.

Sue…just couldn’t help thinking of you when Ben Affleck won his Award. Remember your comment ??? I sure did.

Kevin Costner is just one of those people critics love to pick on…like Ben Affleck, who is now making some terrific movies.

Related posts

• Kevin – Part One – The Early Years

Small Stone #14 January 2013

sleeplessness is a gift

if you want it to be,

for the world has many mysteries

cloaked in the damp black night,

walk gently as you enter

better still…go barefoot

that all your senses can marinate

in its flavours, colours and patterns

where ever you find them

Lucky for this guy I was barefoot and walking gently and felt him before it was too late. This is what photography has brought back to me.

No camera = seeing nothing beyond the slime.

Camera = seeing his beauty, his colour, his patterns.

Oh and FYI – these guys are faster than you think.

Small Stone #13 January 2013

I wonder as I continue along the estuary,

past the ducks and the broken down houseboat,

if sitting inside their corrugated grey house

they feel the connection I feel

to the flag that waves carelessly in their garden,

do they know that I,

a plunderer at heart,

have stolen its soul as I walk away ???

Small Stone #12 January 2013

a congenial companion to the last

the sun bade me farewell

with a parting gift,

an interchanging tableau

of how to turn out the lights

with style

Oh and look what I caught while enjoying all of this…