Marsha Ingrao

Puppy-Girl-Approved Reflection of 2020

Sunday Stills Challenge “Retrospective shows our year in words, photos, stories, and other creative endeavors. Share your good and bad, your best and worst, and what your hope is […]

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#CBWC: Fences from “Sea to Shining Sea”

This week Cee challenges photographers to take or make black […]

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CFFC: Catching People Unaware in Downtown Prescott

#CFFC Catching People Unaware #Prescott Walk 4 #WQWWC #4 Celebration […]

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#WQWWC #4 Celebration

Celebration takes on a new look for most of us this year with the continued persistence of COVID 19. As I read your blogs, I see resiliency, hope, and joy […]

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Holiday Season: Enjoying the Lights of Las Vegas

This week in the #Lens-Artist 128 Photo Challenge, Ann-Christine has […]

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In Your Dreams #flashfiction

Originally posted on Norah Colvin:
This week at the Carrot Ranch, Charli Mills challenged writers to In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about something a character…

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#Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: “Watch Out for Pricks!”

#Prescott Walk #5 Willow Lake To be absolutely clear, Cee […]

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#WQWWC #3: Winter

#Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays Writing Challenge Create a #WQWWC Post on Your Blog Pick a quote to match the week’s topic. Write a response on your blog with a title that […]

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Roast and Toast

Cindy tells a funny story and draws some great lessons from it that you can apply if you are getting together with friends and family over the holidays – even […]

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Never Niggled to Share Precious New Prescott Memories

#Prescott Walk #4 Downtown Amy, today’s Lens Artist Challenger asked […]

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#Writer’s Quotes Wednesday Writing Challenge #2 Anticipation

#WQWWC #2 Anticipation This week I’ve chosen the word anticipation […]

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#Sunday Stills: Prescott, AZ City Sidewalks

#Prescott Walk #3 Downtown Prescott Terri Webster Schrandt invited us to write about City Sidewalks this week for Sunday Stills. Ironically we moved 500 miles east of Woodlake only to […]

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#Lens Artist Challenge #126 Avila Beach

Patti Moed is taking us back to the basics for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #126–namely, the ABC’s. She’s starting at the very beginning with the letter A. This challenge runs […]

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#WQWWC #1: Brokenness Invites Light

Whose quotes inspire you? Share them with us and tell us why.

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#Haibun: Granite Dells, Prescott, AZ Walk #2

#Prescott Walk 2 Granite Dells/Watson Lake Patient Lover This grand statue, neither made or disturbed by mankind. Carved from rock by the elements. Gentle, knees to chest Plant in hand […]

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CR Flash Fiction Challenge: Toilet Training Gone Awry

TWO WEEK DEADLINE: due to the holiday in the US, […]

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#Sunday Stills: #Textures in Prescott, Arizona

Prescott Walk #1 Tanglewood Hills When Terri Webster Schrandt challenged […]

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#CBWC Close-ups at the Beach

A quick swipe of a hue/saturation level in Photoshop turns a color photo into a black and white one. Cee Neuner give us an opportunity to give our close-up pictures […]

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Book Chat: The People Under the Stairs

Scary as it was, there was a deeper message to Hugh Roberts short story than a mere Halloween horror story.

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#CFFC: White or Cream Colors Before COVID 19

Lens Artist Photo Challenge #124 Before and After The entire world is adjusting to life after COVID. Now Vince plays free poker online and complains about it every time he […]

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Sunday Stills: Decorate with the Weathered Look

I think Terri Webster Schrandt chose this topic just for […]

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Tanka Tuesday: Moving in a Week

WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! SENRYU IN ENGLISH: Traditional 5/7/5, Current 3/5/3, and Current 2/3/2 syllable structure. A Senryu is written about love, a personal event, and should have irony present. […]

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Lens Artist Challenge #122 Sunshine

We take sunshine for granted, but nothing is more beautiful and more beneficial to life. Thank you Ana, Lens-Artist Guest Host for this lovely theme, “The Sun Will Come Out […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #122: The Sun will come out Tomorrow

Originally posted on Anvica's gallery:
The sun’ll come out tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There’ll be sun! Just thinkin’…

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Cee’s B & W Challenge

I was going nuts trying to come up with words with O and U in them that Cee hadn’t already used. I googled “words with the letters o and u […]

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October 22: Flash Fiction Challenge

Originally posted on Carrot Ranch Literary Community:
An eerie glow backlit the clouds like copper. Appropriate, considering I live in Copper Country. The lighting reminded me of the way Midwestern…

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2020: An Historic Year of Views Outside Our Home

#Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge Outside of Your Home […]

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Lens-Artist #118: Communication – Right from the Horse’s Mouth

Anne Leueen and Baisini the Horse host this week’s Lens-Artist […]

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A Dry October Photo Walk

#Lens Artist – Amy, takes us on a photo walk as Challenge # 117. This week, and Terri with Sunday Stills makes it a dry one. Since we live in […]

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#Cee’s B &W Challenge: Pets and Farm Animals

I posted a picture for Bushboy’s Last Day challenge. Here […]

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Symmetry Maintains Equilibrium and Brings Photography into Balance

The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #116: Symmetry presented by Patti Moed came […]

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#Tanka: Kittens Backward and Forward

Time for Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday. This week we are working on the form #Tanka 5/7/5/7/7 Nineteen and a half Scardy, my beloved friend Woebegone, my heart A place to foster […]

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#Haiku The Night Skies of Elderwood, Maui, and Melbourne

WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! This month’s theme is: The Night […]

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#Haiban: Illusion of Magic

COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 195 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT #Haiban This week’s Tanka Tuesday poetry challenge was an Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt provided by Lisa Thompson. Thanks Lisa. “Don’t Eat the Toadstools.” … called her […]

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