Sue Vincent offers a #Writephoto prompt weekly at the Daily Echo. I enjoy reading some of the responses with the stories people come up with from a photo and a word. The word this week is ‘choice’, and Sue left 4 images to choose from. I thought I’d jump in with the image given below, and decided to go with the first thing popping into my head.
Welcome to this week’s writephoto prompt. As I travelling, I have posted four photographs to cover TWO weeks prompts. The two prompt words are ‘small’ and ‘choices’.
Take your pick.
Each week, choose one of the images below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon(GMT) Wednesday 19th June and link back to this post with a pingback to be included in the round-up. There is no word limit and no style requirements, except to keep it fairly family friendly.
The image shows an old, carved stone whose recesses are stuffed with red and black ladybirds.
Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away
Whew! I made it in! Busy day here I see. It’s sweltering out there today! Everyday it’s a drag flying around looking for shelter. I was nearly crushed by human shoes at least 20 times just today. If I wasn’t so quick to escape that one annoying little boy chasing me around with a fly swatter, I surely wouldn’t have lived to tell. I much prefer the docile humans who treat me kindly, making silent wishes and blowing on me gently to seal their wishes.
They tell me I’m lucky. The only thing I’m feeling lucky about today is that I wasn’t squashed or swatted to death. Man, did I ever make the right choice when the gang flew south and I decided to head north.
I’m happy to be back here in safety with my friends, hanging out at Mr. Stone’s moss covered cave getaway where I’m safe for another day and have my friends to commiserate with about whose experience of narrowly escaping those deadly fly swatters was most harrowing today. Tomorrow, it’ll just about be time to hit the skies and look for a place a bit cooler and a lot more friendlier, a place where people appreciate me and don’t wish to kill me.
Original post https://scvincent.com/2019/06/13/thursday-photo-prompt-choices-writephoto-2/#comment-204690
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That stone looks mighty odd with those ladybirds filling it like eyes! It’s interesting to think of it from a bug’s perspective!
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Lol, I know right? I found it so abstract I was compelled to jump in. 🙂
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Cute Debby and they are very lucky over here… always blow them away home… hugs♥
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Lol, thanks Sal. Here too. Never swat a Ladybug! ❤ xx
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I loved how you chose to write from the bug’s perspective. Great choice, Sis. ❤
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Yay thanks! ❤
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Beautiful. I’m glad you escaped the mad masses. I like ladybugs and no hair on my head would ever think about killing them. Do you know whether the yellow with black dots ones are called ladybugs as well?
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Thanks Liesbet. And to be quite honest, I’d neither ever seen nor heardof yellow ones?
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Wow, thanks for this. I’d never even heard of them before! 🙂
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Lovely perspective from the Ladybug’s eye view 🙂
I will be back sometime over the weekend to pick up your responses Debby..
Have a great rest of the week
❤
PS, I love Ladybirds bugs.. they are garden friendly, but sadly our species of ladybugs are being overtaken by the Harlequin bugs, which are similar but different colouring.. They are wiping our species of the red and black lady bug out .. Info about the invasive species can be found here. https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs-and-habitats/harlequin-ladybird
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Thanks you Sue for popping by again, and thank you for sharing the link to those imposters! Have a peaceful week my friend. ❤ xx
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What a fun post. I don’t have a lot of empathy for dragon flies but thanks to you, it’s a bit more than yesterday!
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Lol, thanks Jacqui 🙂
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A LUCKY (and smart) ladybug! 🙂
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Lol, I’d say so Pam 🙂 x
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Human’s aren’t very nice to insects. I like ladybirds, they eat the aphids on my roses.
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Thanks Robbie. I love them too 🙂
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Aww, poor ladybug. That stone carving does look intricate and a great place to hide for the moment. Cute story, Debby! Great job with the photo writing prompt challenge. 😀 xo
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Thank you so much Vashti. I’m still learning 🙂 xx
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Poor little ladybird…he’s welcome around here any time 😉 xx
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Aw, thank you Sue ❤
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