it seems there were 4 key words for this week’s challenge – submerge; tall; glass; water
and so to Thursday, and lunch out (not an especially nice one which was disappointing) with friend in pretty Swiss village near the Rhone (just upstream from here - or maybe downstream.....); excited on finding river-submerged branch.....click!
ticks submerge; tall; water; but sadly Rhone on a rather different scale than mere glass of water, so will probably have to make do with a few stems chucked into a vase
meanwhile - toni is ‘not entirely certain I am in possession of a tall, transparent vessel...am planning to go on Sloe Berry Picking walk tomorrow... so am contemplating a seasonal slant...
in response – ‘do you have gin for your sloes? or have you glugged it in desperation? (Gosh I Hope Not!) I haven't yet picked any this year - and last year's bottle went to son’s for Christmas. Me? Am dropping hints about long-stemmed roses (ha - some bloody hope!) but may have to resort to sipping cider through a straw! Although of course we have no straws.....nor yet any cider!’
toni: ‘glorious day here - but freezing! have bag for sloes - and secateurs for snipping branches ... but shhhhhhh!’
and some time later: ‘I now have bountiful collection of sloes…but there's not really an ounce of beauty between them... shrivelled past their best and crunchy brown leaves ... so I'm currently pursuing the lichen route...’
jenny: ‘mind working overtime to work out how lichen fits.....’
toni: ‘Lichen? Ah-ah! Er, gulp... am not <entirely> sure where it fits in myself either... yet... so do stems <against> water, shot through um, <glass> of mobile phone screen, er, count?’
jenny: ‘well, it ticks tall; water; possibly glass but it is so very lovely that we might just have to put it in the blog anyway…..
‘it’s definitely clutching at straws though! talking of which.....went out to lunch again yesterday (last minute Saturday morning decision) and husband obligingly opted for a post-prandial Irish coffee - with a straw.....see where this is heading? it could very well be my 'tall thing submerged in a glass of (something-other-than) water' pic.....’ click!
‘this ticks submerge; tall; glass - but (from that swirl of sugary alcohol in the bottom of the glass, not [most definitely not] water) - three out of four? not bad I say!
although…..
toni: ‘it's toooooooooooooooo hard... smears... water-drops... reflections [gah! i hate reflections] have run out of bed sheets to block sunlit windows... but STILL there are reflections... not to mention floaty bits of chipped off bark + other crapola in the water ... out of 18 clicks this <one>’
which ticks all 4 submerge; water; tall; glass – three (no, four) cheers for toni!
next week – (exceedingly grumpy old git chose) number 73 which, fortuitously is to ‘take a road trip’ and ‘document the placement of people and objects in the vehicle’; personally I will have thirteen hundred kilometres to come up with something…..
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