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Has Anyone Seen My Shoe? #WordlessWednesday #Photography

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Wordless Wednesday – No words, just pictures. Allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

Photo of a metal statue looking out towards the sea with a shoe at the base of the statue.
Has anyone seen my shoe?

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Do Sandcastles Have Doors? #ThursdayDoors #Photography

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Thursday Doors is a photography challenge hosted by Dan Antion, who blogs at No Facilities.

The whole Thursday Doors thing is about sharing pictures of doors that catch your eye. Loads of bloggers get involved each week and give a shout-out to Dan’s post. Dan also encourages everyone to check out each other’s door pictures and drop a comment.

I’ve participated in Thursday Doors in the past. It’s great fun, and although there is no pressure to participate every week, you’ll find Dan has built up a great Thursday Doors community.

Here’s my second entry for 2024.

Photo of a while wall with a sandcastle painted on it, Next to the white wall is a large green door with a rusty lock on it.
Is this the door to inside the sandcastle?

What do you think? I wonder if this door is the opening into the sandcastle. But what do those strange symbols on the door mean? Maybe they say, ‘Do not enter.’ Or, worse, they could invite danger, saying, ‘Come on in.’ Would you step through?

Check out this week’s Thursday Doors over on Dan’s Blog.

Photo of a grey door through an archway of stone with plants growing around the brick structure of the archway.
Image credit: Dan Antion

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End Of Summer #WordlessWednesday #Photography

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Wordless Wednesday – No words, just pictures. Allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

Photo of a beach and the sea, with just a few people left on it at the end of the summer season in the UK.
An almost empty beach at summer’s end.

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Behind The Shutters #WordlessWednesday #Photography

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Wordless Wednesday – No words, just pictures. Allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

Photo of some light green shutters where one shutter is open showing half a view of a coastline and the sea.
What’s behind the shutters?

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Captivating Visuals: #WordlessWednesday #Photography

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Wordless Wednesday – No words, just pictures. Allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

Photo of an open gate to a path with grass verges on both sides. In the distance is a deserted beach.
Would you like to come for a walk with me here?

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Summer Solstice #WordlessWednesday #Photography

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Wordless Wednesday – No words, just pictures. Allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

Photo of the sun setting over the sea on the summer solstice 2023. On the beach, two surfers head out to the sea, and a couple take sunset photos.
Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?

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Linking to Sunday Stills hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt. Theme: Sunrises and sunsets.

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Beach Huts #ThursdayDoors #Photography

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Thursday Doors is a photography challenge hosted by Dan Antion, who blogs at No Facilities.

The whole Thursday Doors thing is about sharing pictures of doors that catch your eye. Loads of bloggers get involved each week and give a shoutout to Dan’s post. Dan also encourages everyone to check out each other’s door pictures and drop a comment.

Oh, and by the way, Dan’s got the Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge coming up in a few weeks! It’s gonna be awesome. Check it out!

I’ve participated in Thursday Doors in the past. It’s great fun, and although there is no pressure to participate every week, you’ll find Dan has built up a great Thursday Doors community.

Here’s my first entry for 2024.

Photo of a row of colourful beach huts along the sea front.
Which beach hut would you choose to own?

If I told you I was gifting you one of these beach huts, which one would you choose?

Check out this week’s Thursday Doors over on Dan’s Blog.

Photo of a grey door through an archway of stone with plants growing around the brick structure of the archway.
Image credit: Dan Antion

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Where And When Did You Last Lose Your Heart? #WordlessWednesday #Photography

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Wordless Wednesday – No words, just pictures. Allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

Photo of small plastic heart on the sand surrounded my shells and small pebbles
Who lost their heart on the beach?

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Can Anyone Else Spot A Rubber Duck, Squirrel, Dinosaur and Hummingbird? #WordlessWednesday #Photography

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Wordless Wednesday – No words, just pictures. Allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

Photo of some animal shaped clouds over the ocean.
Can you spot the animals in the sky?

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Flash Fiction Friday – What Lays Beneath

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June 20, 2023, prompt: Write a story about grains of sand in 99 words (no more, no less). Where are these grains, and what importance do they hold? How many ways can you think of using sand? Who interacts with the sand and why? Go where the prompt leads! See June 20: Story Challenge in 99-words for more details.

What Lays Beneath – by Hugh W. Roberts

On the secluded beach, grains of sand held a horrifying secret.

As twilight embraced the shoreline, their malevolence awakened. Slightly serrated edges transformed into razor-sharp teeth, hungry for flesh.

Unseen to the unsuspecting visitors, they slithered beneath the surface.

With a sinister intelligence, they devised a plan. Swiftly, they surged, entangling ankles in a web of gritty terror. Screams of agony filled the air as victims got dragged below, devoured by the insatiable maw of the sand.

Panic swept the beach, but the grains, now stained red, revelled in their newfound power, forever cursed to prey upon the unwary.

Written for the 99-word flash fiction challenge hosted by Charli Mills at the Carrot Ranch.

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