Day 175 – June 24, 2018
Rejuvenate – RDP / Fish – JPADC / Light the Night – PAWC / Tourist – SSC / Stark – TWIPC / Epiphany – WODC
These last two days have been very accommodating to me in that the prompts I used had a solid connection. Looking at today’s words I feel like a tourist at a Amish Smorgasbord (Trust me, I know that of which I speak). So hang in there with me as I navigate my way through the attempt to link the prompts to the photo. I just happened upon this piece by total accident. I was in town looking for photo ops, when I decided I needed to grab a refreshment in order to continue my adventures. I just finished eating and set out, feeling rejuvenated, to find todays post. All of a sudden the clouds darkened in a stark contrast from the bright sun filled sky. Before I knew it, the skies opened up, and when I say opened up, I mean it was like a dam bursting. There was absolutely no place I could be, without ending up looking like a drowned rat. Two buildings up was a shop I hadn’t ever been in, but I had this epiphany so I went in, hesitantly. Once in I realized I was in this vape shop that sold items that would make Spencer’s look like a rogue Toys-R-Us. By this point I had no choice, so I meandered about, and made it appear that I was very interested in the stores contents as not to be called and then kicked out. As I walked toward the back, things became very interesting, in a good way. There was an abrupt change of lights, from the business incandescent to the deep saturated UV black light where my first thought was “light the night”. I found myself surrounded by glass, literally. Glass pipes lined the multi tiered shelves and there were 3 large glass enclosed curio cabinets. Each of the cabinets held a piece of glass, the smallest coming in at 52″. Each glass pipe was meticulously hand blown, designed and sculptured and painted in such amazing detail. I literally stood in front of each, for no less than 10 minutes, gazing at the detailed intricacies of each pipe. I grabbed my camera and ended up choosing this one because, well frankly I wanted to post the photo so there is a sense of what I saw. And this one had fish, and I knew that fish was a prompt for one of the challenges. I had such a hard time finding the right camera settings and ended up using the iPhone photo because it produced the best one. After a good half hour, the storm had passed and the sky once again was bright and clear. I headed out of the shop with the photo that answered each prompt, a little sketchy but still…. Oh and by the way if you wanted to purchase one of the glasses, the cheapest would only set you back $1200.
Great! I like the story! Where was this? Amsterdam? Lol.
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Gosh I wish. It would be great to get overseas. But nah, it’s right in town. Kind of anticlimactic if you ask me! 🙄 Thank you so much for the comment!
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Wow!
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That’s exactly what I thought. Thanks for the comment!!!
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High! 😋🤣
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Now that’s a pipe!!!!!
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Yes, yes it is. I just don’t know what one would use something like that for 🤭😂
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Ohhhh I’m not too sure either – but I love a good mystery – hold on one sec let me just light up this joint I just rolled & try to figure it out 😅🤣😂
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I will put it high on my list of things that I need to blaze on. 😛😯😇
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Oh I love you so much right now 😍😄
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That’s alright, I understand. 💕🤗😘
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Excellent photo and the story that goes along!❤
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More Brownie Points for YOU! It was all true too! Even the part about not knowing what shop it was. 💕😁
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I have been having issues with comments, and other computers thinking I was a spammer. I was curious to see if a couple of comments I sent (but didn’t appear on your last two posts) went to your spam account. If you would let me know if they did I would appreciate it! Thanks! 😬
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Just approved two of your comments – were in the spam inbox. Hopefully, this shouldn’t be happening again! #fingersCrossed
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Thank goodness. But now I wonder how many other of my comments are in spam boxes? Frustrating, because I think it’s a result of my new VPN. 😠🤞🏻
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I can imagine the frustration – happens to me too with certain specific accounts! Hoping you get a resolution soon! 🤞🏻
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What an amazing photo! And love the title! A photo challenge delight! I love it when bloggers can post one photo to coincide with several photo challenges! Thanks for linking up with #SundayStills…that vape shop seems like a tourist trap literally and figuratively! I am currently looking ahead to match a couple of themes with OWPC and Cee’s black and white challenges over the next couple of weeks 🙂
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Thank you very much! I’ve been trying to combine, just to get it out there a bit more. I have set my email up to drop the new prompts into folders so I have all daily prompts automatically delivered to one folder, weekly photo to another and special prompts to a third. Makes it easier for me to get all challenges at once. Problem is I keep adding to them as I find them. I’ve been waiting for a good combo so that I can do Cee’s Black and White as well! Probably more than you wanted to know! 😛But I really appreciate the comment!
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I miss the Daily Prompt.
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I know, right? I keep finding more and more prompts, I think I need to narrow my choices…
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How do you find them?
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I started with Cee’s challenge listings. And that went from one to another and from there a couple of the blogsites shared other challenges that they use and from there it just kind of spiderwebbed out!
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Thank you for the reply!
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YEAH!! Me too! Why aren’t they doing it anymore? I’m relatively new to WP (1.5yrs) & only discovered them a few months before they shut it down. Now I love WP, but I gotta say .. I’m kinda disappointed. It was great inspiration & motivation – not to mention it brought us together.
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It is safe to say that I would probably have only 10 followers/following if it weren’t for DWP. It really helped me go through posts and find blogs I was interested in. Now I search through Reader which really isn’t the best or effective program. In fact, that would be something that WP should really improve.
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I agree and I don’t want to dog on WordPress but I really cannot come up with one reasonable reason as to why they would take something like that away
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It wasn’t making them enough money? Oh wait, the majority don’t blog for the money, do they? 😕 (If so, I want in…)🤔
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I was thinking maybe whoever was organizing it wasn’t in the mood anymore but I mean come on just pass it on to somebody else who wants to. I had a split second thought where I said you know what I’m going to do it and then I came back to my senses I have so much on my plate I just don’t have time to run something like that right now participate yes run no
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I know right. If I did it then I wouldn’t be able to do all the others. And I like those. But it is nice to see so many other great people trying to pick up the slack.
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