Creative Busyness

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Perspective

    You know when you forget to lock your cell phone screen after taking a picture, and ends up shooting something you never intended to? It happens to me all the time, and that was how I got to have those pictures on my cloud backup.   This post was written in response to Cee’s Black… Read more

  • The view

    This has always been the view from my room. A pretty walled garden, full of roses. I can’t smell the roses, but that’s actually good, as I can’t stand their sweet smell. But I still like to view the view. Last week, a new person moved in. It’s a lady who likes to paint. She’s now… Read more

  • One-Four Challenge: September Week 3

    This is the third week for the September One-four challenge. The images I’ll be using this month were actually created back in July, when I learned about the challenge and went crazy about creating 2 sets of images, the one I used then, and the one I’ll be using this month. Having been so long since the… Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Public Transportation

    The rich and the poor… This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and While Photo Challenge: Public Transportation. Read more

  • Rodeo

    It is the morning of the rodeo. The horses are still calm. Billy has no horse assigned to him yet. He tries to look at each horse in the eyes. They don’t seem very fond of cowboys, bastards who tickles their flanks and don’t deserve to ride them. Then Billy notices a young horse that seems more… Read more

  • One-Four Challenge: September Week 2

    This is the second week for the September One-four challenge. As I mentioned last week, the images I’ll be using this month were actually created back in July, when I learned about the challenge and went crazy about creating 2 sets of images, the one I used then, and the one I’ll be using this month. Having… Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Reflections and Shadows

    I give you Seattle’s landmark, the Space Needle, today.         This post was written in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Reflections and Shadows Read more

  • One-Four Challenge: September Week 1

    The One-four challenge is back this month after a month of review. I’ll be honest and admit I haven’t reviewed much at all in August, and the images I’ll be using this month were actually created back in July, when I learned about the challenge and went crazy about creating 2 sets of images, the one I… Read more

  • Boi Bumba

    Catirina is at the end of her pregnancy and her baby is due soon. She had rough times during pregnancy, when she craved ox tongue. Francisco killed their master’s prized bull to satisfy her cravings, enraging master, who went after them. But Francisco and Catirina managed to resuscitate the bull with the help of shaman wizardry, making… Read more

  • Half Connected

    Half connected to the earth, half hanging loose. In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Connected.” This picture was taken on the way to Sunrise, at the Mount Rainier National Park, in Washington Read more

  • Gold Rush

    “I’ll take this train to Seattle, then a boat to Alaska, find some gold and come back to marry you. Love you. Don’t forget me. I’ll be back.” After a month, she stands at the train station waiting for some news. She gets a letter. “Dearest Maggie, I miss you so much. I stayed in… Read more

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: From Every Angle

    Kitchen sink with a dash of blue… In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “From Every Angle.” Read more

  • Back to the Future (or not…)

    My story this week will be a reference (but with different facts) to the 1985 movie Back to the Future.   Marty McFly goes back in time, to the year his parents meet, but his appearance changed the course of events and mom and dad did not fall in love. It’s his job now to make… Read more

  • Cee’s Which Way Challenge 2015 – Week 34

    Road trip way. This post was written in response to the Cee’s Which Way Challenge 2015 – Week 34 The RV pictured was from one of our friends. We were a total of 6 families, 5 on RVs and one driving their car and renting a cabin in the campgrounds. The trip was from Seattle… Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Trees

    A tree picture taken recently on my trip to Yellowstone This post was written in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Trees Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Flowers

    Some monocrome flowers today…           This post was written in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Flowers Read more

  • 3-in-one: Take these flowers away. And the balloon, too!

    This week, I’m busy planning a RV trip, so I’m trying to combine 3 challenges in only one story. Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, with a picture of balloons as this week’s prompt Literary Lion, with the word Flower as a prompt Color By Words, with the prompt Sleeping beauty, to write about a comatose… Read more

  • Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Burgundy or Maroon

    Welcome! This picture was taken at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center. We didn’t really visited the center, but we stopped by for a rest while driving at the area. Hence, I can’t tell exactly in which language this sign is written. I work with languages and, out of the 111 languages we deal with (I… Read more

  • Blue sea

    The last thing I remember was asking the waiter to bring my burger with no cheese and no bun, but wrapped in lettuce instead. Then suddenly I was flying over a crystalline blue sea. Or maybe it was a lake, as it was very round. The color was the prettiest blue/turquoise color I have ever… Read more

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Creepy

    Last year, as I was walking from one building to another at my company campus, I saw this standing at the little garden beside the road. I posted in instagram and facebook at the day, but ended up removing from facebook later because too many people thought it was creepy. It is indeed! Like a… Read more