Day 4 - Selfie Freewrite Celebration Contest
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By now, you all know. Drop your freewrite AND your selfie in the comments of the daily Contest Post.
Some Fun Selfies from Yesterday
So many of your selfies were great!!! This is a random pic and yours will also be here some day 🤩
See if you already recognize each other's faces.
See if you can list all the names 😊
If you haven't checked the Daily Prompt yet...
Prompt: tree
Remember you have 24 hours to drop your selfie with you freewrite link into the comment section.
Looking forward to seeing all your beautiful faces - or masks - every day 🤪
Your selfie + freewrite must be posted by 8 AM Pacific Time on 5/18/2018
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art and flair courtesy of @PegasusPhysics
To the TREES to the SELFIES, to the trees, to the....Oh, sorry I was half singing :p
https://steemit.com/selfiecontest/@pixiehunter/freewrite-selfie-contest-prompt-tree-day-4
I have some glasses like that - Need to take a selfie. I used to have a store and was there all day long. Sometimes, I took those glasses and when a customer was looking the other way, I put them on really quickly. always got a laugh. But they were purple with an animal nose :)
Lol, that would have been cute. I should find a kitty one. :) Little by little I am showing my face. :)
https://steemit.com/fiction/@byn/the-hunted-bad-luck
sign language for tree
Byn - you are the most creative person I know!!!!
I agree!!!!
Brilliant!!
That is beyond! i love it <3
That's the best selfie so far... Love it!!
:-))
Very creative!
show off LOLLLLLLLLLLLL
Love it!!
That. Is. Awesome.
Never thought of that! ;)
interesting idea! i know ASL too, i may get inspiration from this and do all the rest in sign. buahahaahah :p
Now we all learn how to sign tree... :D
Brilliant "selfie"!
https://steemit.com/thealliance/@snook/day-4-freewritehouse-selfie-contest-sarah-and-the-tree
okay my guesses on the names
the women that took her exam today?
sexy wandnrose7....very cool photo
fancy milk glass(s) Lady :D
Mom making her poor young man drink rotten milk and when he got done rolled his eyes but really had a great laugh!
weirdywordy one of my heroe's with an almost too perfect milkstash :D
really nice guy that is great to finally see a good look at his face and a FAB writer who I admire.
felt.buzz or buzz.felt depends on the day which is which
Babyj missing on a carton.......
yes, I'm horrible at names in real life :D but never forget a story.
Out in the sunshine. Yay!! How is your back?
better but still sore and still taking meds but should be okay in a few days :D and it's pouring rain now LOLL
First one isn't the right guess :)
@elizacheng who shall now be called Lady with the cute profile photo I looked at the other day and in no way does this women look old enough to have 3 children!
I know, right?
yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! LOLLLLLLL
I myself still haven't believed that I am actually a mother of three either... LOL... But time flies and doesn't stop even for a second... I used to be the youngest in the crowd... But now people started calling me "Aunty"... And I can't do anything but just accept it as a fact...
Wait till you get to be my age and they call you a nice old lady LOL
Chinese here will call "Aunty" no matter how old we are... I mean when we have reached the Aunty level... we will be Aunty all the way... Sometimes older ladies may be called "po po" which means Grandma. But most of the time is just "Aunty".
Agreed! Did we all look that young once upon a time?
why did you half selfie it? you look great outdoors ... i usually see you at your desk and its all dark. :)
Oh well, because my head was so big? I wanted you to be able to see the pretty tree and my arm is not that long :D
and Thank you....yes, trying to get out from behind my desk for more photo's not taken at 3 am LOLL
awww poor heads ... :(
and short arms ... you hide it so well. hehe
ikr!! you are in that dungeon a lotttt .... so glad to see your purdy face outside. :)
I often think that trees are better than people. First of all, trees don't usually make noise. They're beautiful and relaxing, they charge me with positive energy when I walk between them.
If they're bad people inside, we'll never know.
In one of my future lives, I surely want to be a tree. A big, strong tree with a thick bark, deep roots and a lot of leaves, not giving a single f**k about the world madness.
Of course, they could cut me, but I wouldn't have pain receptors... And maybe I could have the subtle pleasure of giving them allergies. 🤣
Damned trees, they're so cool I almost hate them!
PS don't call the doctors, please 😂
hahaha - great freewrite!!! And coming back as a tree can be a long time commitment - there are some really old trees in the Redwoods and other places in the world. Be ready for a few hundred years at least!!!
Oh I'm totally ok with that!
I think trees both talk and feel~ Would be cool to come back as one!
Somewhat I do believe the same thing...only they don't do it the same way as us
beautiful grove of trees you are in :D
It's the public park of my town ;)
This is GREAT! I'm feeling so pissed off about allergies lately, I do like the thought of being the one to cause the allergies!
I'm sorry for you, in this season allergies are a pain. I'm not allergic, but it's easy for me make people pissed off, lol!
looks so relaxing there ... picnic time!! :)
why didnt you touch the tree?
Sometimes I touch trees, sometimes they touch me...like when I run under low branches and take some slap 😂
awww poor soul, getting slappedby a tree ... what did you do? 😛
You sure you have taken your medicine... LOL... I can help call the nurse if you don't want the doctor... LOL
The nurse is absolutely better than the doctor!
I knew it... 😉😉😉
Are you for real or you're kidding? By the way, are you tall, reading your freewrite make me think you are tall. aha.
I'm as always mixing up serious thoughts with jokes and silly things 😉
I'm 1,82 (6' 00"), in my country this put me in the tall side, but not in the tallest. 😉
Plus, trees don't yell at you to get off of them when you climb! (Brisby has no idea why anyone wouldn't want to have a squirrel on their shoulder.)
The idea of coming back as a tree sounds so peaceful, Marco! Well, as long as it isn't a tree along a busy highway, or on the sidewalk in a city.
For a small fee, I'll put the phone down. 😉
You're right, people always yell at me when I climb them 😂
Hahaha heeeey! It doesn't make much sense to feel happiness for produce allergies! Is at if the trees were haters inside, don't you think? Or maybe they are just rebels
Just in case it's okay for me to submit in comment form, I'm going to go for it. Let me know if this doesn't count.
Trees of gold lined the empty plaza. Maybelle looked back and wondered out loud: does she ever think of me? It was a rhetorical question, as all questions are when you’re alone, and she wouldn’t like the answer anyway. Dust on the desert horizon coalesced into opaque, murky waves, with the vague scent of dessicated leather scattered along a glass surface. Maybelle thought about running out as far as she could until her legs would no longer carry her, to expel the burgeoning energy brought about by incessant curiosity and nagging loneliness. Such an action would of course result in her certain demise; without water, she would perish under leaden, oppressive heat. What was it, 95, 100 degrees (that’s measured in Fahrenheit, for any confused international readers). In contrast to the perfectly manicured plaza littered with invasive species that would wilt if taken away from the confines of the town limits, lonely Joshua Trees dotted the landscape for as far as she could see. It was a perfect day for her to feel this way, and for that, she was thankful.
totally okay!
Love Joshua Trees. Thanks!
Very powerful writing! Well done. Love your hair color :)
Thanks! It takes a lot of effort to keep it this way hahah
beautiful story and selfie :D
You have such a beautiful way of writing, it is so wonderfully descriptive in just the right way.
Also, I love the hair!
Thank you! And thank you! Haha.
In love with the usage of your words and style of expression. So powerful too. I love the hair ☺
I think I'm getting less creative as I go instead of more. I've got an avocado tree in my yard and it's given me so many ideas on how to incorporate it into cement that that is what pops into mind when I think tree. I used the leaves to make imprints in the cement during the molding process and most recently, had a friend make me a mold from an avocado I picked myself. I've made avocado brownies, avocado chocolate pudding, avocado dressing, avocado smoothies and obviously avocado toast. Never would I have thought that I'd see an avocado go bad on my counter, but when you've got 20 that are ripe at the same time its kind of hard to avoid it. Next time I'm making avocado ice cubes with all the ones ready to go bad. Itll make smoothies quick and easy next time. Here I am with the cement avocado dish I made :D Not the edible kind, lol.
That is a great cement avocado!! I think it is time for a meet-up so you can get rid of those Avocados :)
And I see that you are getting the hang of the 5-minute thing :)
Good suggestion @freewritehouse for a meet-up by the Avocados tree
I'm down! We've got a couple, lol. Cmon over!!! There's a loquat tree down the street for free picking too, although not sure if there's still good fruit on there or not. The weather has been pretty mild so I'm guessing yes. Oh, and a meyer lemon tree that is falling over with the amount of fruit its holding. Guac and Lemonade party!
secretly I'm still guessing as to what 5 minutes feels like. The timer is too much pressure. I press START and my mind goes blank! LOL
It's like the landlord and I are on the same page. Ill go out and pick a few to be ripe in a week and then the next day Ill find another dozen he decided to harvest and dole out to the neighbors. I cant seem to get the hang of just having one or two ripe avocados per day. Its all or nothing!
That is funny. But avocados do freeze - so, that is a good thing lol
Avocados are such divas- I have lost many over the years :( There was a great cartoon that showed the avocado saying "not ready, not ready" when the person checked them, and then they went to the bathroom and it yelled" I'm ripe" and when they came out it had already gone bad lol. That is how I feel. Though I do love them so. A typical doomed love affair haha
That is no exaggeration! I think pureeing the ones almost ready to go back and stuffing them into a silicone ice cube tray for freezing might be a game changer.
Won't they taste funky though? They will get oxidized on the surface. Or maybe you just slice that part off before use?
add a little lemon juice to the puree before you freeze it. i think a teaspoon per avocado? at least thats what the directions say. I wonder if laying saran wrap over the top to prevent the avocado mush from touching air in the freezer would help?
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@scribblingramma/in-the-park-part-3-5-minute-freewrite-day-210-prompt-tree
What a cute picture of you being one with a tree 😄
There's nor shortage of trees on our property! I just had to choose one!
My freewrite:
I always hated those tall skinny palm trees. They made me think of Miami Vice, and the 80's, which I didn't like aesthetically. So I moved from Maine to West Palm and would give a secret evil eye to them when I happened upon one of the inevitable rows. I grew up in the woods, in the trees like Mowgli. Covered in pitch and needles and bruises. I loved thick, dense woods, and when I went south, I wanted the jungle. Not some tacky beach strip, with its poorly doctored flora decor. Here, in Cali, I've found that the ones I like best are called "Royal Palms", thick stubborn beast with a mop of fireworks spraying out. I also realized that I can't blame the skinny guys for their inclusion in bad 80's art, anymore than to hate on roses (which i totally stop and smell every time) for being played out for the last few centuries. So I have softened my gaze, as a diplomatic gesture. And I think these guys appreciate it ;)
Ha - wait - You are up?????
And I am sure the palm trees were very hurt that you didn't like them and are happy that you are nicer to them now!! LOL
I don't like them. They don't belong here and don't give us shade, most don't give us food, but lots to clean up. Date palms would be good....
I am up from having woken up yesterday at 8pm, so technically its almost bedtime for me. I am doing a 'sleep when I'm tired , wake up when I'm not ' thing and it seems my circadian rhythm is like 27/28 hours, so I sort of move around the clock. Its kind of fun! I always liked nighttime but missed the days- my favorite stint is when Im going to bed at like 5 and waking up at 2am ish. I get to hang and do quiet night stuff and then when I am actually feeling energetic, its day time! When I try and be a normal person I'm always wound up at like midnight to 3am lol . Now i get to try it all :)
Good that you can do that!! I think in so many ways we are forced into a sleeping (or eating) schedule that does not really suit us.
Have you heard about the idea of double sleep or something like that? That people used to go to be with the sun going down, Then get up around midnight and visit, or write, or have sex, or do whatever - then go back to sleep at 4 or so... get up for the day when they are ready....
I have heard of that. I actually need 9-10 hours to sleep because it takes me a long time to sleep and I wake up briefly every cycle (I remember two or three different dreams a night usually- rarely on or none and have even had four on a bunch of occassions). I don't do well in short cycles, and i can never nap. I am so jealous of people who can nap!! Lucky, lucky bastards lol
I do best when I get at least 8 hours of sleep. I have no idea how people function on 4 or even 6 hours of sleep.
Yeah, my body doesn't work without sleep. I can do maybe one day with less, and some coffee, but after that I'm like a child who cries for her nap lol. Not really the ideal set up for a dj (we are supposed to be party machines), but it probably saved me haha
Glad to know I had a good intuition for not liking them- I'm not usually a shallow jerk, so I hoped it was more than a distaste for the 80's haha
Ooh, are we allowed to submit in this thread instead of post in our blog? I'd like to get some diversity of content in my feed going pretty soon and I try to keep to one post a day max, so it would be cool if I could just post the ones that I'm particularly proud of.
Yes!!! That is always the option with a freewrite....
That was an interesting collection of tree thoughts!
very interesting idea's about trees I would never have thought of!
Growing up like Mowgli... sounds adventurous and interesting! Do you have friends like Baloo or Bagheera?
I might ;)
Cool! 😉😉
My entry
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mmasim/day-four-5-minutes-freewrite-tree
Nice tree!!!! And you made it here!!! Yay! 😄
Thank you so much. I ultimately made it