Louise is a writer, poet and photographer who feels most at home when out and about, watching, photographing, and writing about the flora and fauna to be found along the lanes and in the meadows of her local area. She can happily spend hours lost in a field full of wildflowers.
This post is for the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller’s Six Word Story Challenge. This week’s theme is failure. If you’d like to leave me a vote please follow the link above and like my story in the comments section. Thank you! Next time they’d hire a professional.
This is another of my Saturday Songsters posts where I share a video of a piece of music. This week’s track is ‘Strange Land’ by the Irish group, Clannad a group that consists of the siblings Moya, Ciaran and Pol Brennan plus their twin uncles, Noel and Padraig Duggan. Their younger sister / niece, Enya, was originally also … More Saturday Songsters #3 – Clannad
This is my entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is Anything that Starts with the Letter S. All of today’s pictures were taken around Hartsholme Country Park in Lincoln, UK, back in November. I hope you all like them. Do you have a favourite?
This post is for the Miniature Writing Challenge run by An Artist At Heart. This challenge gives a picture and a short story prompt and asks that you write either a mini short story (50 – 150 words), a poem or a haiku (3 lines, 17 syllables). To read the full rules, go here. This week’s prompt is … More The Sound of Drums
This post is for the Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (FFfAW) Challenge, run by Priceless Joy. This week’s photo prompt was provided by me! Thank you PJ for choosing it. The challenge is that you write a story of 75-175 words inspired by the photo prompt below. I hope you like my offering. Passing Storm Eahlwyn stumbled … More FFfAW: Passing Storm
This post is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s theme is yellow or orange flowers. I hope you all like them.
This post is for the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller’s Six Word Story Challenge. This week’s theme is amusement. Like nourishing raindrops, laughter tumbled free.
This is the second of my ‘Saturday Songsters’ posts where I share a music video and song lyrics. This week I thought I’d post a video by one of my favourite musicians, Newton Faulkner. This track was his first single from his first album, ‘Hand Built by Robots’, released in 2007. After hearing the song play … More Saturday Songsters #2 – Newton Faulkner
This post is for the Miniature Writing Challenge run by An Artist At Heart. This challenge gives a picture and a short story prompt and asks that you write either a mini short story (50 – 150 words), a tiny poem or a haiku (3 lines, 17 syllables). To read the full rules, go here. The short story … More MWC: Beautiful Dawn
This post is for the Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s prompt is weightless. Tumbling thistledown Catch a fairy, make a wish Dreams take soaring flight When I was a child I was told that each floating thistledown was actually a fairy in disguise. I’m not sure exactly who told me this – I have several relatives who told magical … More Weekly Photo Challenge: Weightless
This is my second entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge for the theme buildings. I decided that I may as well post the rest of the pictures I’d originally intended to include in my last post seeing as they were all ready to go. These ones are a little less ‘vintage’ than the last set.
This is my entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is buildings. As I’m sure you can tell, I spent a little longer playing around with the editing of these this week. I thought a vintage effect would fit the subject matter quite nicely. I’d love to know what everyone else thinks. … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Buildings
This post is for the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller’s Six Word Story Challenge. This week’s theme is sin. Religious constraints abandoned, she accepted herself.
This is the first of a new series of posts I’ll be calling ‘Saturday Songsters’ where I share a music video and the lyrics of a song that I particularly like. I’ve always adored music and listen to it whenever I can. Many people over the years have called my taste a little strange but I … More Saturday Songsters #1 – Hozier
This post is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s theme is white flowers. I hope you all like them.
This post is for the Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (FFfAW) Challenge, run by Priceless Joy. This week’s photo prompt is from Pixabay. The challenge is that you write a story of 75-175 words inspired by the photo prompt below. I hope you like it. Silent Companion “You see, Eric,” Martha explained, placing a new slide under … More FFfAW: Silent Companion
This post is for Adam Icke’s Six on the Sixth Challenge – six six word stories – one for each of the six prompts. Each one stands alone from the rest. Wrong Unease gripped her. Something was gone. Cap Twisted hat lay discarded: apology refused. Splendid Confidence shone: she owned the stage. Cantankerous “Approach,” he growled … More Six on the Sixth: January
This post is for the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller’s Six Word Story Challenge. This week’s theme is accomplishment. “No,” she said and walked away.
This is my entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is Any Kind of Bricks or Stone Walls, Walks or Roads. I had to go with my favourite types of stone walls for this – those of historical sites! The photos were all taken at either Warwick Castle or Fountains Abbey last year. My … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Stone Walls
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many … More 2015 in review
This post is for the Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (FFfAW) Challenge, run by Priceless Joy. The challenge is to write a story of 75-175 words inspired by the photo prompt below – this week provided by Sonya of Only 100 Words. I’d love to know what everyone thinks. Dreams and Nightmares The cell stood on … More FFfAW: Dreams and Nightmares
This post is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s theme is red flowers and so I decided to revisit a few of the flower photographs that I’ve taken over the last year or so. The poppy pictures were the main things to catch my attention as I wandered through my archives but I also found a few red … More Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Red Flowers
Blackbird serenades Serene glow of pregnant Moon Long night stretches on In the early hours of Christmas Day, just as I was settling down to sleep, I was drawn to my window by the sound of a blackbird singing. The light of the full moon made the sky strangely bright for 1:30 AM and was … More Midnight Birdsong
This post is for the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller’s Six Word Story Challenge. This week’s theme is joyous. My thoughts instantly went to Christmas morning. Wide-eyed laughter scatters amidst paper scraps.
Another picture of Rudolph for you all to colour today.
This post is for the Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (FFfAW) Challenge, run by Priceless Joy. This week’s photo prompt was from pixabay. The challenge is that you write a story of 75-175 words inspired by the picture prompt below. I hope you like it. The Lingering Ache It had been years since he’d last ridden a … More FFfAW: The Lingering Ache
In the original version of yesterday’s snowman picture I’d included snowflakes. These didn’t really work there as they were too detailed for the rest of the picture, so I removed them. I didn’t want to waste them, though – which means you get an extra picture!
Here’s a snowman colouring picture for you all today. Enjoy!
I enjoy writing six word stories so much that I decided to join in with another challenge. This post is for the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller’s Six Word Story Challenge. This week’s theme is believe. She’d always known they were real.
This post is for the Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (FFfAW) Challenge, run by Priceless Joy. The challenge is that you write a story of 75-175 words inspired by the picture prompt below which this week was provided by me. I hope you like it. Tubby Tubby liked to watch the people as they ambled by; … More FFfAW: Tubby
I was very happy to see that the Six Word Story challenge, run by Ben at A Hopelessly Wandering Mind, had made a return. I find the challenge of writing a story in only six words very enjoyable. Aptly, this week’s theme is return. The image I’ve included is from Pixabay. Young eyes open; old soul sees. To read … More Six Word Story – Return
This post is for the Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (FFfAW) Challenge, run by Priceless Joy. After being absent for the whole of November with NaNo I couldn’t resist diving back in – I’ve missed the community on the challenge too much not to! This week’s photo prompt was from pixabay. The challenge is that you … More FFfAW: The Gathering
I’m not quite sure how I managed it but last night I hit the 50,000 target for NaNoWriMo. Yay! November has been an insane but wonderful month – I’ve spent pretty much every spare minute writing. Knowing that I have the bones of a novel down ‘on paper’ is such an incredible feeling . Unfortunately now … More November Madness
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