October 2013 – Figments of a DuTchess

Six Word Story Challenge: The Weather

Posted on October 30, 2013February 10, 2016 by Marion Driessen

This week a short, but hopefully interesting writing prompt in my Six Word Story Challenge: the weather.

Write a story about the WEATHER in just six words. Let a photo or image inspire you to write a story. Or first write the story, and then make or search for a picture to go with it.

Here’s a Six Word Story by Ernest Hemingway.

Such an impact and unseen images in only six words…

Publish your Six Word Story on your own website/blog and paste the link to that post in a comment to this one here at Figments. I will include your contribution in this post, forming a list of stories.

Will you join me? Will you? Say you do. And share the challenge news!

I look forward to your stories.
Marion

READ THE STORIES ABOUT THE WEATHER OF:

Vastly Curious: My time is not my own.
Colonialist’s Blog: Six Word Story Challenge: The Weather: No Golf
Breath of Green Air: Veiled Visions
Julia: After the rain, there is hope!
Indira’s Blog: Six Word Story Challenge: The Weather
Danny James: Six Word Story: The Weather
Figments of a DuTchess: 6WSC: The Weather
Of Glass & Paper: #6WSC: the Weather

Who’s next?

The next challenge will be published on November 13. Doe je liever mee in het Nederlands, ga dan naar Verhaal in zes woorden met beeld: Het Weer.

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Older stories:
130226 – Poverty
130313 – Spring
130327 – Writing
130410 – Light
130424 – Music
130515 – Transport
130529 – Pets
130612 – Regret
130616 – Inspiration
130703 – Commercials
130814 – Vacation
130829 – Memory
130911 – Terrorism
130925 – Youth
131011 – Dialect

Animals, Inspiration, Photo, Photo challenge, Quote

Allure

Posted on October 27, 2013October 27, 2013 by Marion Driessen

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Allure

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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

~ Siddhārtha Gautama

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Border hopping, Nature, Photo, Photo challenge

Travel theme: Stone

Posted on October 25, 2013October 27, 2013 by Marion Driessen

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< the button will lead you to more stone photos at Ailsa’s website Where’s my backpack?

Border hopping, Nature, Photo, Photo challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

Posted on October 25, 2013October 26, 2013 by Marion Driessen

One day I will heed your call again…

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Personal, Six Word Saturday

Giving Thanks

Posted on October 19, 2013October 20, 2013 by Marion Driessen

My Saturday in Six Words:

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GIVING THANKS FOR FAMILY AND WOODS

image: Wikipedia

Yes, in that combination. For my family is heading over to my house for my DuTchess Thanksgiving as we speak. Mom will bring Limburgse vlaaien, just like the picture in the header, and I have made two apple pies. I also prepared a thick green pea-soup – to be eaten with bread rolls, and chili con carne – to be eaten with rice. But my crazy family probably will heap all together on one plate like they did last year with the spicy sauerkraut oven dish and the exotic Indonesian dishes. I rest my case.

When they arrive in half an hour, we will first attack the pastries and then drive to the woods of Dorst where the youngsters can run around and the oldsters can walk dignified and have deep conversations. Yeah, RIGHT 😉

Then back to my place for drinks and snacks, after which the aforementioned food will hit the table.

Have a nice weekend, all of you!

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Border hopping, Culture/History, Photo, Photo challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Marion Driessen

All of my life, I have loved the colors of the earth: blue, brown, green, yellow – natural hues. Plus black, definitely black. In the recent years English red jumped into the competition and quickly climbed the charts. My house is slowly turning red (in combination with creamy white): first two walls of my bedroom, then the corridor. And soon the living room will follow.

You might think I would choose a red photo, but no. Because I want to show you this one:

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It’s part of a wall, a simple old wall. But this combination of blue and gold stole my heart. Not for my own house, but for all people who pass there and wish to see. The hue of me is golden blue.

What is the Hue of You?

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Animals, Border hopping, Photo, Photo challenge

Travel theme: Brown

Posted on October 18, 2013October 18, 2013 by Marion Driessen

This week’s Travel Theme is brown. And that color leads me straight to my photos of Portugal, where brown has such a rich hue.

Near the cabin where we stay, there’s a large market being held each Sunday morning. Everything is sold there: animals – chickens (both the alive and edible versions), dogs (I want to buy, if necessary free them all) – clothes, vegetables, bread, beds, tables, plants, shoes. You name it and it’s there. Like this marvelous pottery.

A brown restaurant, where we had a one-bowl dish of all kinds of stuff that shouldn’t be in there together – but tasted remarkably well.

Brown horses waiting patiently for tourists who are not able to use their own feet.

In Lisbon, we visited an exhibition at the police station. These rifles were on display, and a woman could not control herself: she just had to touch them. The moment she made contact, her cell phone rang. The lady jumped back, frightened to death and screaming. I was screaming too, because I almost peed in my pants. Laughing.

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Brown can indeed be beautiful, Ailsa, thanks for another great challenge!

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Photo, Photo challenge, Quote

Ugly

Posted on October 16, 2013November 20, 2013 by Marion Driessen

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Ugly

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It is better to be beautiful than good, but it is better to be good than ugly.

– Oscar Wilde

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– however ugly my sweet little troll is –
please click the photo 😉

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Six word stories

6WSC: Dialect

Posted on October 16, 2013February 10, 2016 by Marion Driessen

My own entry in the Six Word Story Challenge: Dialect

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THOSE TREASURED SOUNDS TAKE ME HOME

image: Limburgse Dialecten

The dialect we speak at home – at my parents’ house in Limburg- is very different from the ‘normal’ Dutch that is spoken where I live now, in the south-west of the Netherlands. Though Friesland is the only province to have its own official language, Limburg has several dialects, as you can see in the image above. I come from the region Heële, in the south-east of Holland, near the German border.

And the minute I talk to my parents, to my siblings, in our dialect Limburgs, I’m transported back home. In a flash, a family feeling arises. And I treasure that so very much.

How about you? Do you have a dialect where you were born? And is that different from the language/dialect you speak these days?

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