999 Verandakus: #126 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

The sky is spitting

Random shots hit birds, kids, me

We are spitworthy

999 Verandakus: #125 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

The childrens’ voices

leave the park on gusty winds

Energy takes flight

999 Verandakus: #124 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

Summer in July

is an odd fit in the South

Pool splash comes early

999 Verandakus: #123 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

After the night’s rain

Humidity joins the sun

Winter takes a bath

999 Verandakus: #122 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

A child on the road

Running with joy, fearless

Others worry best

999 Verandakus: #121 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

 

“U-turn permitted”

Street signs offer a way back

Renouncing today

999 Verandakus: #120 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

Rain on the roof tiles

sifts a soft rhythm for sleep

Hope for morning sun

999 Verandakus: #119 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

The tip of my shoe

a butterfly’s helipad

Grey and white still life.

999 Verandakus: #118 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

An old man’s jumper

Worn inside out to the club

Tells me of lost love

999 Verandakus: #117 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

Each step a new one

though each feels familiar

New step family

999 Verandakus: #116 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

School kids in the park

fan out blue across the grass

Uniformed painting

999 Verandakus: #115 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

The petrol station

hosts white cars at all bowsers

How many weddings?

999 Verandakus: #114 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

The dog leads him out

Small, furry ridiculous

Power in his paws

999 Verandakus: #113 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Two in the garden

Cat and servant watching life

Neither knows the hour

999 Verandakus: #112 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Today in my ‘burb

So much industrial noise

All at once, boom time

999 Verandakus: #111 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Silence in the sky

as a jet glides through low cloud

Landing brings thunder

999 Verandakus: #110 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

A car without plates

Left on the street overnight

Abandonment sucks

999 Verandakus: #109 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Each step up the hill

is measured breath by breath by -

More fitness needed

999 Verandakus: #108 from Veranda Life and Flovember

Out on today’s walk

Each step differentiates

because I notice

999 Verandakus: #107 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

A biplane above

Its banner an earthly quiz

Will she marry him?

999 Verandakus: #106 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Dogs bark at night here

Afraid of the dark, and us

By day they sunbathe

999 Verandakus: #105 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Winter beginning

Torts Contract Criminal Law

Please learn something else

999 Verandakus: #104 from Veranda LIfe and Flovember

 

Drink black tea often

on anyone’s veranda

Breathe relax and sip

999 Verandakus: #103 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

A frayed winter coat

grown thin from years of loving

An old friend goes cold

999 Verandakus: #102 from Veranda Life & Flovember

 

Soldiers train and work

You see them in shops on breaks

Unarmed in public

999 Verandakus: #101 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Reward the painters

with a complement or two

Sincerity works

999 Verandakus: #100 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Park, dog, kids, and dad

juggling distraction, keys, phone

Ted E. Bear sleeps rough

999 Verandakus: #99 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Gone to ground, captured

The pool, its water – becalmed

Is Spring warm enough?

999 Verandakus: #98 from Veranda Life and Flovember

 

Hanging from a crane

The blue shell undulates in

an ocean of air

999 Verandakus: #97 from Veranda Life and FLOVEMBER: A Month of Floral Images with A Month of Verandakus of Every Kind

 

Winter sale brings heat

A pool shell on the footpath

Excavate summer

Welcome to Fabulous Flovember – A Celebration of Floral Images, and then Some!

 

So perhaps you’re wondering why, if it’s Fabulous Flovember, what in heaven’s name is a demonic angel doing on the Welcome post?

Well, today, November 1, is All Saints Day; yesterday, October 31, was All Saints Eve, or All Hallows Eve (all hallows is the old English name for all saints), or as we know it today, Halloween (a contraction of hallows evening); and tomorrow, November 2, is All Souls Day.

So, how better to welcome Flovember – a month of floral tributes in images to accompany Veranda Life’s daily Verandakus – than with the light and dark sides of every life and afterlife in all their magnificent splendour.

All Saints was apparently designed to not only be a big knees-up for all the recognised saints on the Christian calendar, but as a catch-all day for any they might have missed along the centuries – poor, honest, saintly toilers who never made it to the big league table of actually sanctified kahunas.

Similarly, All Souls day is for all the so-named Faithful Departed, a round-up of everyone who’s died but may not have cleansed their souls of all their sins.  This feast day, again, applies to Christian faiths, but I favour a one size fits all approach, so let’s include everybody, or rather every-not-a-body-anymore.  On All Souls day, the living were charged with praying and offering up masses for the dead to help any stragglers get out of places like Purgatory (which may no longer exist – I’ll have to check with the Vatican).

In the spirit of inclusion, therefore, I’ve decided to invest November with saintliness, soulfulness, and sinfulness by providing a variety of floral images for each day’s Verandaku.  You may have noticed that usually the image fits the Ku, but this month the images are simply there to be themselves: gorgeous and relaxing, all natural, all singing, all dancing. 

Hence, FLOVEMBER.

And as for my little pal in the image, that was a pure accident of positioning when I took the photo.  Afterwards, I saw, to my surprise, that I had combined two statues into one and created a demonic angel, both sides of the soul coin, Saintly and Sinful.

I hope you enjoy this month’s Verandakus and Flovember images as much as I’m enjoying creating them.