“Feeding birds means feeding yourself! Birds are part of nature and feeding nature is nothing but feeding yourself!”― Mehmet Murat  This week's midweek challenge on partner Susan and my site concerns itself with BIRD FEEDERS. In North America on February 2nd people wondered what the "official" groundhog prediction would reveal: six more weeks of winter or... Continue Reading →

"Life isn't black and white. It's a million grey areas, don't you find?" - Ridley Scott This week our weekend Challenge is our monthly Colour Challenge, and for February the colour is Grey! (gray)  The phrase “grey matter” refers to intelligence, brains, and intellect. The saying “grey power” is used in reference to the power of... Continue Reading →

Sat 25th Jan "If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man." - James Dean This weekend the Word/Photo Challenge from GC and me is 'The Bridge'  The inspiration for this challenge came from a most unlikely source (Nan’s Farm... Continue Reading →

Message from Sue: Oops! Sending my Apologies for my spot of housekeeping (also known as How did I do that?) resulting in this post of GC’s from three weeks ago being republished! "Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world." - Margaret Chan... Continue Reading →

“To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special.” ~ Drew Hayden Taylor This weekend the Word/Photo Challenge from GC and me is 'Unusual'. This challenge is wide open to interpretation because only you know what is unusual to you. It could be finding an... Continue Reading →

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”— Andy Warhol The midweek word/photo challenge on partner Susan and my site is Family Albums. And don’t forget our word/photo challenges are now combined, either/or. Do you have any of those treasured and cherished family photo albums that were... Continue Reading →

“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph.” -   Bruce Gilden. This weekend the Word/Photo Challenge from GC and me is 'The Street.' I wonder how many of you remember the WordPress photo challenge from two or three years ago, a challenge where we were asked to share a... Continue Reading →

"The need for vaccinations does not end in childhood. Vaccines are an important step in protecting adults against several serious and sometimes deadly diseases." The midweek Word/Photo Challenge on partner Susan and my site is BOOSTER VACCINES.  Since December 21st of 2019 I have been under the thumb of a "contagious" virus that forces its... Continue Reading →

"White, corresponding with metal, represents gold and symbolises brightness, purity, and fulfilment." - Chinese belief. At the start of January 2019, GC and I launched our monthly colour challenge. For January 2020, our colour challenge is White, and was chosen because Chinese New Year 2020 is the year of the White Metal Rat! Some of you... Continue Reading →

"Today is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." - Brad Paisley New Format for 2020.Our First Challenge of 2020 is Something New From today our Word Prompts and Photo Challenges will cease to be separate. We have merged our twice-weekly challenges and given each of them the new combined title... Continue Reading →