Sunset fire with pelicans heading home on Half-Moon Bay, Westport, WA
PHALL PHOTO 2013
Secret garden
We have water! The little waterfall is flowing and Greg (neighbor friend) also put in a head that sprays a bell-shape of water in the pond. He has been placing beautiful chunks of petrified wood to camouflage the edge of the pond. I hope to do the plantings tomorrow. The sound of flowing water is so wonderful! Greg will work on lighting soon, although I have some pretty little metal tea light holders that I’m going to add tomorrow. We have a long way to go, but getting the water flowing was a great motivator :>)
Writing…or not
I’ve done some book reviews on Goodreads here and Amazon here. I posted a lengthy response on Georgia’s blog about JK Rowling using a male name for her latest book here. I’ve also been active on Facebook here. I did a word cloud challenge from Zoe’s site here. The result, below, was written with ONLY the words from a specific “cloud” of words:
Stolen Breath
I swear, at present, I know fifteen ladies,
been living on the run, on the road, for years.
Not trying for truth or gods,
but breath.
Maybe you believe there was a stolen car,
a robbed bank,
but you would be at fault; wrong!
Truth is, maybe fifteen ladies
had a chap that robbed that breath…
Patti
What haven’t I done? You would ask! I haven’t worked on the memoir, or the postcards book. I haven’t posted my new features for writers and caregivers. I’ve written the first couple of them and they sit and wait for me in the drafts folder. I just seem a little emotionally hungover from August and, well, stalled.
So there you have it. Hope you stop in and say hi, maybe tell me what you’ve been up to. Tamed any lions lately?
Patti
THE WRITE PLACE... 
September 8, 2013 at 2:03 am
You’ve been very busy indeed! That is one great sunset too! How about entering it to Bastet’s Pixelventures over at We Drink Because We’re Poets…this week the prompt is sunsets 😉
September 8, 2013 at 2:10 am
Thanks, I’ll go see if I can figure it out…I did try once and the photo never got over there…
This one has the dreaded spots from my camera, so I will prob use a dif one.
September 8, 2013 at 2:17 am
Just go to this address http://wedrinkbecausewerepoets.com/2013/09/02/bastets-pixelventures-september-3-2013/ to get the details, and to ping back to the blog, do what you did when you linked me this morning (evening) when you wrote about our conversation. Or, put your url address as a comment. Either one will get me to you as should the tags. Could you give me the url of the photo that didn’t make it to me? I’d love to see it.
September 8, 2013 at 2:26 am
It was from my photo blog:
http://phallphotos.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/bee-on-thistle-blossom/
Maybe you can tell what I did wrong?
September 8, 2013 at 2:29 am
I’ll go look now.
September 8, 2013 at 2:38 am
Ok…the problem is that you didn’t go into the editor to put the link address for Pixelventures. So your readers could come to my post, but alas your photo and indeed the post was not visible to me, as I wasn’t following this blog but your writer’s blog. In the meantime, I’ve added this address to this week’s Pixelventures so it can be seen by our readers. It really is very lovely! To link use the address short or long but put it into the link, that is highlight the words Pixelventures, the paper clip will become visible…click on the paperclip and then add the url address and the title of the post. I also click open in a separately. Then just save.
September 8, 2013 at 3:22 am
I think I got it, and I just did it from my writing blog, with a little poem attempt.
September 8, 2013 at 3:46 am
Great go! I see the ping here, so I’ll go see!
September 8, 2013 at 3:01 am
How lovely that you got the water feature flowing, and may this be a symbol for your own flow returning as we stretch into September. I look forward to reading your new features when they feel ready to fly out of their draft folder nest:-) Until then, I congratulate you on all the connections you are nurturing in other areas of this wonderful worldwide web…lovely to catch up with you. Love and blessings, Harula xxxxxx
September 8, 2013 at 3:26 am
Thank you so much, Harula. You are so nurturing and encouraging. I like the symbolic flowing water connected to my stalled writing…I will see it that way now.
Glad to “see” you and warm hugs. I will go over and see how you are doing.
xo
p
September 8, 2013 at 5:26 am
It will come back to you when you are ready! Glad to see the water garden is coming along nicely. So much fun !
September 8, 2013 at 5:29 am
Thanks, Susan.
September 8, 2013 at 6:30 am
You’re living! And there is nothing to write if you aren’t living your stories. I try to keep a balance and fail repeatedly. There is always more to do around the writing goals and never enough time. I’m choosing the garden, long walks, and good friends more. I doubt at my death bed that I’ll regret that I didn’t spend enough time on FB. When my husband died, his oh-so-important books felt still important, but not nearly as important as the love of his sons, friends, and me, meetings with spiritual teachers, the beauty he had created on our land, and the compassion in his heart. For me, gardening implies trust in life. And you are a writer, so you will write.
September 8, 2013 at 6:32 am
I sure have made some incredibly wise friends!
Thank you, Elaine.
September 8, 2013 at 6:43 am
How timely for me to read this post! I have been in a deep funk all August, only slightly emerging now and with a long list of overdue writing goals. And of course that list is part of why the funk is so slow to dissipate. Gardening is hard hard work so you should feel very good about that. Sometimes we just need to do something completely different. I want to write but I also want to have fun doing it. Whenever it stops feeling like fun, it’s time to focus on something else for awhile (in my case, knitting). Enjoy your hiatus from writing. It will still be there when you’re ready to resume :). Lots of big hugs. Love your photo too!
September 8, 2013 at 6:56 am
Thanks, Marie. I’m trying to remember where my knotting basket is…learned in the hospital, but will prob have to re-learn. Maybe this winter when gardening is out…
Bighugsback:>)
September 8, 2013 at 12:06 pm
I love your philosophy and try to make this my approach, too. It’s easier to win the lottery than to make lots of money with writing and that has never been my goal. So if I’m not having fun doing it, and interacting with others who love reading and writing, then something is wrong with my choices. Thanks for reminding me.
September 8, 2013 at 4:55 pm
You’re welcome 🙂 I actually needed reminding myself since when I’m in a funk, I rarely talk sense to myself 😉
September 8, 2013 at 7:38 am
That’s ok. We all need a breather from our big project–for regeneration and renewal. Or because we’re unfocused, which is my problem lately–too much stuff going on around me lately! We’ll do better when we’re ready . . . .
September 8, 2013 at 7:40 am
Funny how many of us are at odds…
September 8, 2013 at 7:45 am
Maybe it’s the time of year or something in the atmosphere. I’ve started to wonder for me if part of it is that I spent a lot of time blogging and am mad at WordPress for how it’s letting me down with problems lately. I’m actually writing a post on that today for tomorrow morning. I feel betrayed by WP. Or maybe I’m burning myself out?
I hope you’re going to submit a story to my blog contest though :).
September 8, 2013 at 7:47 am
Crap, I better go look! Of course I will.
September 8, 2013 at 7:48 am
🙂
September 8, 2013 at 1:07 pm
Yes, gardening counts! 🙂
September 8, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Thanks:>)