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A Wish for Your Place⤴

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A wish for my place
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Today’s TDC  says

Today is the National Day on Writing. Today, make a wish for your place. This activity is taken from the Write Where We Stand Choice Board

Go outside where you are, take something to write with, and find a comfortable place to sit for a few moments. Take in your surroundings.

  • What do you notice about your place?
  • What do you notice about the natural environment and the human-made things around you?

Now, consider what your place was like in the past. Then, switch your perspective and consider your place and its future.

Draw, write down some words, gather details – capture what you notice and imagine in a way that works for you.

Now, close your eyes, imagine you are blowing the seeds of a giant puffball dandelion flower, and make a wish for the future of your place. What would your wish be?

I went to stand outside, but it’s pretty rainy so I didn’t stay out for long. I noticed a hole in the fence though, where a fox had dug a path out of our garden last night. However, I appreciated the quiet of the morning – no workmen using powertools, no neigbours shouting over the fence. So here’s my wish for my garden.

I hope that the birds keep visiting and brightening my day with their songs
I hope that the brambles keep growing despite the fox’s antics
I hope the bugs find a cosy place to rest amongst the fallen leaves
And I hope that we can call this home for many years to come

World Food Day 2026⤴

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World Food Day
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Today’s TDC says

Today is World Food Day

The UN have a challenge for people aged 5-19. We might not be, ahem, quite that young, but we can still participate here:

Create a poster that shows what “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow.” means to you. Show us how innovation – big or small, old or new – can help feed the world, protect the planet, and build a better future for everyone.

Mine’s at the top of the post.

Rain or shine, your city/town/burg is beautiful. Show us the magic⤴

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Today’s TDC says

Celebrate the season wherever you live (Autumn in the northern Hemisphere, Spring in the southern) by getting out in the streets today and photographing the beauty that is the moment.

If you’re housebound, turn your camera to the window. Compose your shot. Make it beautiful.

It’s  very changeable weather here today – one minute bule sky, the next drizzly rain. Here’s my favourite orner of our garden, with Fair Flora (needing repainting!) in front of our ‘orchard corner’. The wee apple tree still has apples on it and the cherry is a lovely colour. The huge fuchsia is called ‘Delta’s Sarah’

283/365 Fair Flora in the autumn garden
283/365 Fair Flora in the autumn garden flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Put a bird on a statue⤴

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Today’s TDC says:

Birds love to perch on statues. but how about adding an unlikely bird to a statue? Use your digital skilz today to add a bird to a statue, or show us a photo you have taken.

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I wandered outside with a couple of toy puffins and took some photos

Fair Flora with Puffin
Fair Flora with Puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Flora the Puffin and Lacey the Statue Cat
Flora the Puffin and Lacey the Statue Cat flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Brambles⤴

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I blogged my responses to the TDC thoughout August, and I kind of missed doing that today so here’s this one.  Today’s TDC says:

Today is the first day of meteorological autumn in the northern hemisphere. Make us something autumnal – maybe a picture or a poem.

I don’t have any autumnal photos for this year yet – though we noticed that the trees were starting to drop their leaves when we visited Mugdock earlier this week I didn’t take any pics. But here’s a pic I took yesterday of a fat, juicy, ripe blackberry against a bule sky.

Brambles
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3-30-300 rule⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Glasgow is called Dear Green Place, and looking around where I live in the suburbs you can see why. Today’s TDC says that:

3-30-300 is an urban forestry concept which states that every resident should be able to see at least 3 mature trees from their home, live in a neighbourhood with at least 30% tree canopy cover, and be within 300 metres of a high-quality green space. Make a version of this rule for an online community, or show us an example of it from where you live.

Here’s the view from my bedroom window this morning – so many trees – apple, plum, lilac, rowan. Yesterday I counted 14 sparrows sitting on a branch on one of them. Sitting here in my study on a drizzly day I everything looks green through the window and the berries on the rowans are gleaming.

Garden trees
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Geranium Haibun⤴

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July weather is unpredictable, from sweltering heatwaves to torrential rain. I take my chances where I can and step outside to enjoy my garden. At the moment my geraniums are glorious – shaded from the worst of the heat by the forsythia above, spreading out across the garden. Today they are shining in the sun.

On a sunny day
Flowwers turn their faces up
Basking in the light

189/365 Geraniums
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Earth Day 2026⤴

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Today is Earth Day, and today’s TDC asks us how we are going to celebrate it. I’ve been weeding and pruning our back garden this week, so today I will get out and clear the weeds from in and around our little garden pond.

Garden Pond
Garden Pond flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

It’s all looking lovely out there, especially now Fair Flora is in her new home

Fair Flora
Fair Flora flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license