Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 22/Sept/21

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Photography

Pictures to entertain, bring joy, and, if you like, inspire you to create with words or images. Whether that’s a poem, story, play, novel, memory, essay, painting, drawing, sculpture, or another photograph is up to you. Please don’t feel obliged: you can just enjoy the pictures. The image is untitled to avoid directing anyone. If you need to know, the title is here.

I’d love to know if you use the pictorial prompt. You can post a link to your work, or the work itself, in the comments section, if you wish. If you use my image, please credit me in the form of a link to this post. That way, more people will see both our creations.

The idea is to have fun and get those creative juices flowing.

From time to time, I’ll include something I’ve written, inspired by the image.

To see more of my pictures, look in my Gallery or beyond.

19 thoughts on “Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 22/Sept/21”

  2. I could look at this for hours and still find something new to wonder about. Unquestionably great sculpturing and the architecture of those days with the tools they had been amazing. The picture doesn’t give me a feel for the size, but the detail is wonderful.

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    1. I agree, Lynette. Valerie and I usually like to get away for our wedding anniversary, and prefer to go overseas if possible. We’ve just returned from a week on the Isle of Wight, which is as far overseas as we felt able to make it this year!
      I just wish the ignorant, superstitious, fearful and ill-informed would look at the science and get themselves jabbed so we can all resume some form of ‘normal’ life.

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      1. I wondered where you were! Good to hear you were on holidays.
        I have no sympathy for the unvaccinated (there are a few who can’t get the jabs, but they are very few). They are eating up health care resources, delaying critical procedures for those with other health problems, and causing numerous issues for the rest of us. Most of Canada has now instituted vaccine mandates, including many individual businesses, but we have a couple of provinces that have totally idiotic and selfish leaders and they are now overrun with covid among the high numbers of unvaccinated who live there. Crazy! Stay safe. 🙂

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        1. It’s good you’re in Canada, Lynette, and not across the border. The US now has the dubious honour of having allowed the most deaths of any country in the world, 700,000, from Covid. Superstition, ignorance, poor education and an understandable scepticism about leaders are all partly to blame, of course. But in a country where a large proportion of the population believes the Bible word for word, credulity about the various myths, legends and misinformation campaigns is to be expected I suppose.

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          1. I’ve read about that situation in US. A milder version of that is occurring in those two provinces I mentioned. There is a high rate (by Canadian standards, anyway) of religious involvement, and it seems that the penchant for religious belief (itself often the result of weaker education) makes people susceptible to all kinds of other mythology and misinformation. Here, the two leaders of these provinces depend on the fringy types to keep themselves in power at the expense of everyone else, including their lives. What they’re not seeing is the correction that’s coming their way. It’s going to be bad, and they and their governments deserve it.

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            1. I agree, Lynette. We seem at last to be moving into a era of radical change, mostly driven by the young. They see their future damaged, maybe even destroyed, by old traditions, priorities, indifference and greed and are taking a stand against the negative forces responsible. We can only hope this youthful movement has the time to make the necessary changes before it really is too late, eh?

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              1. I hope so, Stuart. It’s rather cynical of me to say, but the youth have a way of running out of steam (right about the time they start having children) and losing focus on more global issues. I hope this younger generation does better than mine did.

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                1. Let’s hope most have more sense than to procreate in a world as full of problems as it is at present. The real difference now, of course, is the online community and the ability for groups to act in concert even when they are divided by oceans.

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      1. You have traveled so extensively. How wonderful. I miss checking in every day. There just doesn’t seem to be enough time anymore to read everything I want to. I hope both you and Valerie are well and healthy. How is your book coming Stuart? Hugs to you both. ❤️🤗😘

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        1. Our travel has been restricted to our neighbour, Europe, Joni. But that includes many different lands, of course.
          I agree about finding the time to read and respond. So much information, comment, and rumour; it’s difficult to cope sometimes!

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          1. So true my friend. I use to never miss one of your post. I also write and submit my work to other places. Then there are chores which honestly I don’t enjoy as I would much rather be reading. Hugs Joni

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            1. Chores can always be ignored if there’s a good book waiting, Joni!
              Just keep writing and sharing. We all ave busy lives, if we’re lucky, and most people understand it isn’t possible to respond to everything you come across online: life is too short to worry about such things.

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