The Lion and the Unicorn

 Hi Everybody!

Today is the last day of Erika's and my Poetry challenge at AJJ. This challenge made me very happy, and I would gladly use this theme again. Today I have another page made with pages and a poem from one of my books:

And some photos from yesterday evening and early this morning:

Sorry, that's all for today, I have been feeling really ill again, and need to rest- I'm just happy I managed to get something done!

Have a great day, take care,

And thanks a lot for coming by!

If I were a bear

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Today I have my penultimate journal page for Erika's and my poetry challenge at AJJ. This has been a lot of fun for me, and I hope others have enjoyed it, too. I wrote this bear poem about 20 years back. The journal page shows his lair and the poem:

I think no human can love as deeply a dog can:

Some photos of the beautifcul Rhine taken in different weathers and seasons. I need to go to the Rhine every day, it just does me good:

And a few more David Zinn's:

Have a great day, take care,

And thanks a lot for coming by!

The Tale of Fairy Good

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Today I am sharing a fairy-tale poem written quite a few years back and made into a book. This time I have just used the poem and made a new hybrid journal page for it. Okay, fairies. Some of us never grow up! And sorry, no bla-bla today, I am just exhausted

I have written the text here a bit larger in case you can't read it:

The tale of Fairy Kindness Good

Once upon a time in an ancient wood

Lived a little Fairy called Kindness Good.

Her home was hid in a magical glade

Of majestic trees where no human strayed;

Where no ill could happen nor sickness destroy

Her Life made of laughter and sweetness and joy.

A unicorn regal, with shimmering horn

Would graze there each night from dusk till dawn.

At the sun’s first rays he lay down to sleep

While Fairy Good over him watch did keep.

She ate from sweet nectar she found in the flowers,

And drank from a spring with magical powers.

Her clothes were woven from gossamer fine,

Her wings like butterflies golden did shine.

She hasn’t been seen now for hundreds of years,

But fairies don’t die, so please have no fears.

And if at dusk you see a glimmer

Of golden dust or diamond shimmer,

It could be our beautiful Fairy Good,

So take care and quietly leave the wood.

Some thinkies / Funnies:

These photos were taken on the road where I live, I love this rather wild garden and driveway:

Have a great day, take care,
And thanks a lot for coming by!

New challenge at Tag Tuesday - colours 1

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Today we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday, and this time I am hosting. Thanks to  Michele, our previous host, who tagged so many gorgeous Kitties. My theme for the next 2 weeks is 'colours'. Choose which ever theme you want, but show some colours. I made 2 tags, one with feathers and the second with coffee - what else!? I hope to see YOU joining in!

And then I decided to put the feathers tag onto a hybrid journal page, and add a poem to make it suitable for Erika's and my poetry challenge at AJJ. And Emily Dickinson's 'feathers' is perfect here:

And a few funnies/ thinkies:

Have a great day, take care,

And thanks a lot for coming by!

Monday / Tuesday Post

Hi Everybody!
Hope you all enjoyed / are enjoying your weekend!

Today I have another piece for Erika's and my poetry challenge at AJJ. I am re-showing a poem made many years back, but still very much me:

Give me coffee, but no tea,
Tea is not the drink for me.
Coffee, frothy, brown and hot -
I can always drink a lot.
Coffee topped with whipped up cream -
This with joy will make me scream.
Cafe au lait with chocolate sprinkles,
Makes me happy, stops my wrinkles.
And if the point you have not seen -
A day without coffee makes me mean!

And as you can see, this is what Leda was dreaming of when Leonardo painted her!

This evening I will be linking to Elizabeth's TsfT link party.

And some pictures, thinkies, funnies etc:

David Zinn showing his coffee:

Have a great, new week, take care,

And thanks a lot for coming by!

Weekend Post

Hi Everybody!

Just a quick post, time has once again run faster than me!
This is once again for Erika's and my challenge at AJJ, poetry.

Today I have a poem from an English poet and writer, Charles Kingsley , and it is accompanied by a quick, fun face painted onto a leftover piece of patterned paper:

My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey:

Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you

For every day.

II

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;

Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:

And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever

One grand, sweet song.

And a few Thinkies and Funnies:

Have a great weekend, take care.

And thanks a lot for coming by!