Tag Archives: Weekly Photo Challenge

Sweet Serenity

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Sherri Matthews

A new day opens like a blue-front door and a deep-blue sea of escape beckons. Whispering through the sharp grass; brushing past the blasted sand; this light hour lifts you out of your dark slumber and carries you in its … Continue reading →

Posted in Asperger's Syndrome, Poems, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged Anxiety, Asperger's Syndrome, Crete, hope, Light, Photos of Sunset, Photos of the sea, Poem, Poetry, postaday, Serenity, Weekly Photo Challenge | 124 Comments

Of Angels, Christmas Tree Festivals And A Flash Fiction

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Every year for one week in December, Cheap Street Church in the quaint English market town of Sherborne, Dorset, holds a Christmas Tree Festival. Each tree is decorated by a charity or local club. This is what greets you upon … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash Fiction, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged Angels, Christmas tree, Church, Crafts, Daily Prompt, Flash fiction, Food Bank, Knitting, postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge | 108 Comments

A Blue Coat For Christmas: Gone, But Not Forgotten

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

One Christmas morning while staying with my dad and his new wife, I couldn’t believe my eyes as I tore open the wrapping paper. There it was, my heart’s desire, the most wonderful gift I could ever have hoped for … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Memoirs, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged 1970s, Brighton Pier, Childhood memories, Christmas, Clothes, Daily Prompt, Family Memoirs, Fashion, Memoir, Parents, postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge | 120 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Lines and shadows, every pastel-painted wooden hut evenly spaced, all converge as they blend away into the distance. Beach Huts and Shadows Memorial Benches line the grassy slope overlooking the sea, in peaceful solitude. A gathering of beach huts converge … Continue reading →

Posted in Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged Beach Huts, Converge, Daily Prompt, Light, Ocean, Paths, postaday, Seaside, Shadow, Weekly Photo Challenge | 68 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

The theme for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Refraction’. Over at the Daily Post, Kevin asks: ‘For this photo challenge, show us what “refraction” means to you. It could be an image taken in a reflective surface, it could … Continue reading →

Posted in Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged cats, daily post, Norfolk Broads, postaday, Rainbow, Refraction, Weekly Photo Challenge | 82 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

There is a certain curve of a well-traveled road that even now occasionally fills my dreams. Years go by and I forget all about it, but then it appears again, and always strangely comforting. Four years ago while driving through … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Writing, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged California, Creative writing, daily post, Dreams, Photos of English Countryside, postaday, Suffolk, travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, writing | 84 Comments

A Sign Of Things To Come

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge prompt is ‘Signs’. WordPress kindly let me know that Girl In A Pale Blue Dress was my 200th post, a good sign that I’m still managing to blog away. Then I thought of the plight … Continue reading →

Posted in Family Memoirs, My California, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged California, Church, Daily Prompt, Driving, Family Memories, Photos of Signs, Police, postaday, Rambling Roses, Stop Signs, Weekly Photo Challenge | 86 Comments

Such Is Life

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

After my recent post in which I shared some of my writing fears and insecurities, I felt a huge weight lift and for the first time in some while, a sense of renewed purpose and yes, joy buoyed me up. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Friendship, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writing | Tagged Blogging, Endurance, Friendship, Hospital, Illness, postaday, Stourhead Gardens, Weekly Photo Challenge, writing | 101 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

What I love about the Weekly Photo Challenge is the ideas it gives me, often completely out of the blue. For instance, I thought I knew just which photos I was going to post for this week’s ‘Dialogue‘ theme until … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds of a Feather, Family Life, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged Bay of Biscay, birds, Budleigh Salterton, Cruise Ships, Daily Prompt, Family Life, Glass, postaday, Seasickness, Seaside, Weekly Photo Challenge | 64 Comments

Into The Fray Of My English Garden

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

What does the word ‘fray’ mean to you? This is the question we are asked by John for the Weekly Photo Challenge. When I think of the word fray I tend to think of an actual fray, as in ‘going … Continue reading →