In a nutshell…
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Tag: Beach
Tranquil…Word Wednesday
The water, the sun, the beach, it spells tranquility to me. What word comes to your mind?
Coast and Shell…Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge
Ronovan’s prompt ‘shell & coast,’ tunes into my thoughts of waiting for the weather to improve so we can go off to the beachside and wallow lazily.
In a nutshell, tell me
the agenda that you have in mind;
for our trip to West-coast?
©
Jacqueline
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Silver Shadows
Shadows are silver linings. You should have no fear of them because when you have a shadow, it means that you are standing in the light.
Water, Water Everywhere or NOT so Everywhere…
71 percent of the Earth is covered by water and every living thing thrives on water simply because WATER is LIFE.
I have seen water in many ramifications, from the abundance of the Oceans to bottled water of varieties, rainfall in the Tropics to the aridity of living in the Desert and one thing that I’ve found is that every living thing seeks out water. Unfortunately, there are places that lack this bare necessity that many take for granted, which reminds me of a well-articulated post I read earlier, written by Robert.
One of the things that I miss living in the UAE is rainfall. It’s such a rare occurrence and buying bottled water is the norm because the desert lacks a generous abundance of potable water.
Agbokim waterfalls
Boy’s at play
Gold fish on display at cafe
Watering Hole
I like the reflection in the waters
Dinner tents surrounded by water
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Aloha! Hawaii in Dubai – A Click A Day.
Well, who says that if we can’t go to the exotic Island of Hawaii, that we can’t bring Hawaii to the desert and possibly have a good Luau while at it 🙂
Aloha!
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Yay! Soon it will be beach time – Ronovan writes weekly haiku challenge
Well, I must say that Ronovan’s prompt ‘beach & time,’ anticipates some good time in the near future with me. The weather over here has been sweltering, hopefully, we should see a turn to cooler climes in a few weeks.
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Soon the weather will be cooler here
then we get to indulge,
and spend some time at the beach.
Book, beach bag, towels, ball, sunglasses & all,
we frolick in the sand
and it’s always a time well spent.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Jane…
Like clockwork, Chris and Wolf went for their morning jog. One of the beauties of living close to the seaside was to watch the sunrise and sunsets above the waters. He loved the lifestyle his writing life presented, thanks to the success of his thrillers, though his was a lonely life.
Familiar with Wolf’s beach antics of sniffing at the crabs, digging through washed up debris, he wasn’t’ surprised when his Husky took off in excitement down the beach.
Within minutes, Wolf raced back, his insistent barking aroused Chris’s interest. The mound on the pebbles was an unconscious, female form. He quickly turned her over and administered CPR. She vomited, opened her eye’s for a few seconds and passed out again.
Glad that his home was close by, he carried her to his house to get her warm as quickly as possible and to call for help. Removing her sodden clothing to wrap a blanket around her, he saw the beautiful, antique watch nestled between her breasts and out of curiosity, he lifted the watch and saw the name inscribed at the back. It read, Jane.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Flames of the forest and more Echoes of my neighbourhood 22
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 a house, 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 could, at least, see them through you.
It’s all good that the trees and plants are blooming at this time of the year. The flame of the forest’s orange blooms are vibrant and offers people a colourful cool spot to take cover from the Sun that’s literally baking hot.
During the weekend’s, I always find a couple of hours when I disengage from family affairs and take that time to meander a bit about town and just be by myself.
All the photos in this series were taken last week Saturday. I traipsed or rather, took the bus, train and taxi to different parts of town and most weekends, tourists flood the city in droves.
We e-zoomed around various neighbourhoods on our laptops, pads, phones, and got a peek into what lovely folks are doing.
Like Mercury Colliding: Receiving natures serendipitous gift on your birthday can be such a delightful blessing. Kat makes me want to grow some Magnolia’s.
Jazzy Tower: Beautiful moments in life captured with a great sense of satisfaction.
Giggles and Tales: Just gorgeous photos of serenity and Stella.
Don’t horde the beauty of the life around you, just for yourself. Do share with us
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Beach Bums…
I am not a beach bum but I love spending time by the beach side. Soaking in the lovely sea breeze that lulls you to sleep on the chair.
Running in the surf’s spray and dipping my toes in the water is particularly soothing, though the sand has a way of getting in nooks and unexpected crannies.
Coincidentally, it’s a long weekend in UAE as today is a public holiday, so we plan to spend time tomorrow morning at Jumeirah beach before the sun gets too hot.
It can be wickedly hot in this place, but for now, the rays are still kind to us.
I have a big beach bag that I plunk in all sorts of stuff, from my sunglasses to headphones, blue tooth loud speaker for music, sunscreen, water, serviettes, the large book that I am currently reading A Prisoner of Birth
Maybe I’ll do a book review after, but does Archer need a review? I doubt it.
I’ve got Summer on my mind once the children get through their exams by the end on the month. Yippeee! 🙂
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Beach, The Daily Post Prompt.
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