It’s already weekend this way
And a Spring break weekend too!
I tell ya, it feels good 🙂
Now let me grab me some munchies.
Have a great weekend y’all.
Author: jacquelineobyikocha
A wordsmith with a vivid imagination, an eager mind and a burning desire to carve out tales. As I journey with my muse to that land of all possibilities and self discovery, I hope my personal evolution will serve as a beacon of inspiration for anyone who chooses to stop by.
Rolling fields and Sandy banks…
Today’s Photo 101 theme is landscape and cropping where nature is our main subject, or a sweeping panorama of an entire city, town or industrial area.
A few shots were taken during this morning’s walk-about and many are from the previous week.
Picnic in the parlour…Friday Fiction In Five Sentences
Angela looks out of the window in delight at the fair weather, the Sun’s rays wink from beneath the clouds.
Ah! Finally, a beautiful day to frolic, riding bicycles and having a picnic in the park.
It’s a good day today, she hums to herself, rousing the boys from their computer games to assemble the items for an outdoor foray.
The rumble of Thunder, gives pause to her delight and true to type, the fickle weather has changed it’s mind.
We shall just have to have this picnic in the living room she mutters in deflation.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Image credit: Pixabay.com
The Full Moon…
Midnight Motivations and Musings 39…
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It’s definitely important to review our steps from time to time, to see where we are and where we are coming from.
However, you shouldn’t feel dissuaded if you do a review and find that things are dragging a bit and not working out as fast as you would want, especially if you look and perceive that others might be running faster.
These days, life is on the micro-wave lane and we almost expect everything around us to fall into such category, but there are things that we cannot necessarily change as fast as we wish.
What we have to do, is to establish a rhythm that we can sustain.
Success is built over time, with patience and diligence. It’s not a sprint, but a long-drawn marathon, filled with hills, valleys, cobblestones to trip you up and sometimes muddy swampy pathways with noisome mosquitoes along the track 🙂
Just keep going. Each day, add another jigsaw to the puzzle.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Featured Posts 22…. Let me share your post links.
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Today’s featured blogs are:
Basket ideas A refreshing blog filled with tidbits and inspiring stuff. The things that I like.
Blindly seeking Melinda weaves a basket of intricate suspense that sets your imagination on a wander.
Write intent Bits about incredible India from Pearl. Do look in and learn a thing or two.
Pranabaxom Delicate and sense stimulating lines that will definitely rouse feelings within you.
Ways to get out of debt A sure-fire and quick way to get out of it and get rid of that debt for good.
POETRY CHALLENGE This looks interesting and also another way of linking to more people. Don’t be shy. Give it a try. You just might discover the hidden poet in you 😉
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‘We create a cohesive community when we come together.’
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Tiny and Tall…
So, I will just cut to the chase of the matter and attach my photos for today’s photo 101 theme ‘scale and observation.’
I am so totally knackered and my brain is running at half tank from insufficient snooze.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Echoes Of My Neighbourhood 15….art, literature and airport.
On Thursday’s, I share pictures about ‘Echos of my Neighbourhood.
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple.
Every Thursday, share a photo of bits and pieces of wherever you are at any point in time. It could be houses, backgrounds of your neighbourhood, activities and so forth and you can tag it Echos of my Neighbourhood, add my link to your post so that I will get the ping from your post.
Every other Thursday, I will publish a post with the links of all those who participated the previous week.
This is just a fun way of getting to see more of the World around us through your eyes, since we cannot all be at those places, we can at least see them through you.
My Echoes came out a bit late today. I am bleary eyed and tired, maybe even jet-lagged from sitting at the airport till 3 am this morning, waiting to pick up family.
This week found me going out a bit more due to photo 101 course and I have shared a lot of those ones. These one’s were taken in the last 3 days and last night, or should I say wee hours of this morning.
The art exhibits are beautiful, but a bit pocket denting.
I attended a literature expo and my goodness, it was well put together and very well attended program.
I honestly don’t have the energy to tag all the photos and still do photo 101, so I just shared these bits.
Thank you for tolerating my yawning 😉
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Last Week Echoes gave us some peeks of different neighbourhoods, hop on let’s go see and do show some of yours 🙂
Sampan Ride Hong Kong is calling me like a siren. Beautiful pictures 😉
A bit of Ikotun market Nostalgia. I used to go buying some raw food items once in a while in this place back in Lagos.
So peaceful around the neighbourhood No matter how much you scurry about, nothing takes you off the sidewalk and brings down your stress from 100 to zero notch in seconds, like home.
Some real echoing sounds Kat took echoes to another dimension with her recorded sounds of her environment. I enjoyed the zen over and over, so beautiful and calming to listen to. Now she has sown some seeds in my head.
Nature’s beauty Sweet pictures from Thoughts and Entanglements. Nothing beats nature.
The Norfolk Giants Kim brings whimsical thoughts and paints stories in my mind with these photos of the dying giants. Let’s go meandering.
Funking for Jamaica Let’s go to Jamaica. Well, online at least 🙂
All Nigerian Foods My dear sis Flo who is joining echoes, is a big Nigerian food blogger *with over 35 million page views* She brings the tastes of home to you, wherever you may be on the globe 🙂
Featured Posts # 21…Let me share your post links.
Have you seen these? Do send in your links, thanks 😊
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Today’s featured blogs are:
D.I.Y party needs A lot of fun and money saving steps too. I have done this over the years with my children. Take a peek.
Girls Protest When young girls lead a protest match, then the smoke must have become a fire.
Four ING’s we should stop investing in: a very essential piece for the sanity of our lives. If you investing in this, just STOP!
Indentured Mel weaves magic that draws you in and holds you in suspense… exquisite.
A condom, a tooth and a power failure JUST Hilarious and not so funny when you really think about it.
Please visit their blogs and say hello. A few minutes may gain you a friendly support.
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Bud’s Of Spring… A collaboration..
Buds of Spring
Georgette looks out of the window
The cold is fast thawing out and little fresh sprigs are sprouting.
It should be warm soon
Yet the coldness in her heart did not match the liveliness of the budding Spring
Her heart feels like a ghost town.
Where is he?
He promised her everything and she believed in him…
Counting the days and hoping that it’s just a dream.
A COOKING POT AND TWISTED TALES
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She wallowed, has winter turned to spring.
Georgette thought about him all the time,
In her mind she went over, all the special times they shared together.
By her pillow she kept, the last shirt he had worn,
It still smelled like him, and made her want him more.
Would he keep his promise and return,
Or would spring arrive everywhere but in her heart. MANDIBELLE
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From the heart’s wreckage
springs hope, a bloom delivered
“Miss you” scrawled on note
not forgotten yet
not this Georgette, rose in hand
sweet perfume in nose
Wait until summer
search for him in heat shimmers
raising wavy hopes… MELINDA KUCSERA
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Georgette sat wistfully looking out her window.
The sun was shining. The birds were tweeting, prancing, dancing and courting.
Large, colourful butterflies performed a graceful aerial ballet whiles the bees supped nectar and collected pollen.
The soft breeze ruffled the lush new green leaves in the trees.
It looked so serene and peaceful. Everywhere but in her heart. It was barren.SOUL GIFTS
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Please can someone help bail Georgette out?
We can’t let her heart languish in a barren state 😉
Feel free to add your contribution and the collabo will continue if you do.
Image courtesy: pixabay.com
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