Welcome to Week #1 of The 2026 Festival of Leaves. This week’s image shows early autumn reflecting on the creek. A few weeks ago this was a lush green, now we seem to be fading to yellow. The…

The last 4 letters (WXYZ) for the Flower Hour's Floral ABCs photo challenge!

My return to blogging was fun and satisfying after a tumultuous break! Thank you for welcoming me back last week. It was great to catch up with you! If you are confused by this week’s Sunday Stills…

Share the love of your home town in photos or another place you love!

Esther Chilton’s Writing Challenge Esther’s prompt word this week is service. You can join in here: Service Station Stop (haibun) When I was a girl, my father had some old fashioned ide…

Welcome to my best curated September Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Kathy Steinemann shares some alternative browsers to escape the A.I. bots, Writer Beware updates us on the latest author s…

Dan Antion’s Museum Murders sends reporter Rascal Todd into a mystery involving a historic Pittsburgh museum, long-hidden secrets, missing money, and murder. Pour yourself a cuppa and join me for m…

Meet Marsha Ingrao Marsha Ingrao is the creator of Story Chat Digest, an annual anthology derived from a series of stories and poems run on her blog, AlwaysWrite. Story Chat Digest is run as a frie…

Sunday Stills celebrates the very beginning of Autumn here in Northern California.

Hi, everyone! This is Colleen. I was thrilled to ask Eugi if she would guest post, and she said YES!! Let’s welcome Eugi to our Happy Autumn celebration! It’s our favorite time of the y…

As Autumn approaches in the Northern Hemisphere and Spring arrives in the Southern, it is the perfect time to celebrate fresh blossoms and new foliage—and I am here to capture them in photographs. …

Welcome to the first day of Autumn! I hope it lasts until the first day of spring (wouldn’t that be nice?) I love autumn so I am hosting The 2026 Festival of Leaves. I am starting a little la…

HInts of Autumn celebrating the Autumn Equinox for Sunday Stills (2019).

Time for the Autumn Equinox!

Is it Autumn or Spring where you live? Show us your favorite seasonal flowers, plants, or trees!

Welcome to the Sunday Stills Animal of the Month Challenge hosted Terri at Second Wind Leisure.  Terri’s prompt this week is Antlers, Horns and Hooves so to start here are some of the horses …

Wrangling antlers, horns, hooves, and BOOKS, this week for the Sunday Stills Animal of the Month!

September’s Sunday Stills color challenge is harvest gold. “All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reach…

The Day Has Arrived — 1LinerWeds

I love autumn so I am hosting The 2026 Festival of Leaves. I am starting a little later this year, beginning on October 1st I will post every Thursday. I invite anyone and everyone to join in at an…

We explored closeup and macro photography in nature this week for Sunday Stills.

What does back to school look like for you?

We're exploring the Floral ABCs again, looking at S,T,U and V!

Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you today with my September post in the Animal Photography section on LatinosUSA – English Edition. This month I am featuring photographs of The Creation …

d’Verse, Tanka Tuesday, and Bird of the Week Melissa’s challenge word for Quadrille Monday was xonolith. I incorporated it into my Bird of the Week poem, a chain shadorma (with some dif…

I remember in a record shop in Liverpool buying a Dolly Parton single called The Seeker, sometime in the mid 1980’s. Dolly released the song in 1975. I wasn’t aware of the song when it …

Let's explore the colors of orange and apricot this week for this month's Sunday Stills color challenge.

Going back to the past and to the future!

A quiet few weeks? Maybe—but creativity is blooming. Join me Over a Cuppa for book-launch excitement, a little poetry, Queen Moji’s bath-day escape attempt, and late-summer sunflowers.

Paper and Silver Whenever I photograph our Shrimp Plant (Justicia brandegeeana) in macro mode, I am surprised by what the lens reveals. Take the monochrome header image. Stripped of its color, the …

No words necessary for lakes in all seasons. This post was refreshed and republished. The post appeared first in Sept 2022.

Don’t let self-doubt stop you from doing what you love or want to try!

Sunflower Season! Enjoy.

Participating in leisure connects us like nothing else. “To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. – Arnold J. Toynbee A man looks wistfully toward t…

Sunning Lizard The Ultimate Solitude: Death by Being Stuck in Wet Paint Lizard seeking warmth The ultimate solitude Ever in the sun Inspired by the former WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitude. Copyright 2014 Terri Webster Schrandt

Three new windsurfers enjoying a light-wind day Leisure connections are vitally important to the human condition. Regardless of our hobbies, pastimes and interests that bring us happiness or challenges, the friendships and human connections we make with one another as we partake in these activities ultimately help create communities. When you join a club, you now belong to a community of like-minded folks who share similar values and interests.

See how AI made redesigning a WordPress About page faster and fear‑free, with practical tips to boost engagement and blog follower confidence.

This holiday weekend, Labor Day (in the U.S.), is the traditional end to the summer, as school begins, and vacations are all but over. According to the US Department of Labor, “Labor Day, the first…

We are still learning the ABCs represented by flowers and plants. Check out what works for letters PQR!

A conversational roundup from Hugh’s Views and News, using thought‑provoking questions on blogging, myths, ghosts and loneliness. Which ones will you answer?

Welcome to my August picks for useful Writer’s Tips I’ve curated along my reading way. In this edition, Deborah Jay is at the Story Empire with some helpful tips for authors to add A Co…

I grew up in Seattle surrounded by water, especially the waters of Puget Sound. At Alki Beach, the one we frequented the most in West Seattle, we played in the sand, and if it was a really hot summ…

An Aussie beach lover, shares three surprising favourite beaches in Canada, Spain, and England’s Jurassic Coast with stunning photos, for the #SundayStills beach prompt.

Celebrate National Beach Day August 30th! Where is Your Favorite Beach?

Welcome to the Sunday Stills feature hosted by Terri at Second Wind Leisure. Terri’s choice this week is Beaches. “Life takes you down many paths but my favorite ones lead to the beach.” – Un…

Today, I am delighted to welcome best selling poet and writer, Michelle Ayon Navajas, as my August author guest on LatinosUSA. Michelle Ayon Navajas, is the editor of Hotel by Masticadores and is a…

It’s that time of year and the Sunflowers are blooming, making the bees very happy. But in just a few weeks, their heads will fall as if in shame though the world knows it’s then, they&…

Hey EveryBuddy, step inside and see what the cats stirred up today.

What is your relationship with insects? This week we explore another Animal of the Month.

The post features a quote by William Cullen Bryant about a yellow sunflower in autumn. It describes a vibrant scene with a butterfly perched on a sunflower, surrounded by green leaves. The imagery …