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This June i had been painting water colour splashes with felt marker out lines: Today's: A bunch of coconuts on a tree

The Origin of The Coconut Vendor lorries, or ornate new advertising wagons, have been a fixture in Port-of-Spain seemingly forever. Long before bottled water and cheap, plastic bottled soft drinks, the easy way to refresh oneself after a hot day in the city was to pay a penny and have a vendor wield a razor-sharp cutlass across a coconut, guzzle the sweet water and then have it hacked open, so that the jelly inside could be eaten with an improvised spoon made from a chip of the same coconut shell. READ MORE HERE 

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YUMMY

I made cucumber water.

What would you do with any one or all of these veggies  Tell me in the comments ☺

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Welcome to Art For Fun Friday #66

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With all the rain we've been getting, the bougainvillea shrub is now green. The bracts from sunny days have fallen off😕

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All About Numbers

[From my archives]

Here am i Year 2020 with my coconut i bought from the vendor behind me😊

Friday Face OFF 06\29\23

Today's haiku was first posted at Facebook during this week

rainy days are the best

when the Netflix romance guy

makes his woman laugh

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 at miniMAG issue 52 

4 collaborations written with Linda Lee

2 cherita And 2 TanRenga

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My Granddaughter 💖Zuri and two of her peers in a mini recital on Wednesday of this week

 

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THIS WEEK'S ANNOYANCE

My cell phone charger which i had bought a few day past fell and the part to put into the phone broke of and one of the tiny wires busted so i had to rush out and buy a new one😕

Then i was redesigning an  oversized styled  jump suit which i had not worn in a long while and my scissors fell and the handle broke. Now i cannot use it 

 I have to buy new scissors; 😕but i finished my redesign project

Hope your month of June was a good one

Bye Bye month of June

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without a feather  

i too cannot fly away  

Wilma ponders

© gillena cox 2023

NOTE: The dodo was a flightless bird endemic to an island east of Madagascar. This bird went extinct in 1681 from introduced animals and hunting. Because dodos were birds, they were technically descendants of dinosaurs, like all birds. One of the closest living relatives of dodo birds today is Southeast Asian Nicobar pigeons....  MORE HERE

YUMMY

Curried potatoes... sada roti

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There will be a linky here for ART FOR FUN FRIDAY on Friday 

There will be a linky here  for  SUNDAY SMILES on Sunday

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celebrate heroes

in the rhythm of sunshine -

children carnival

© gillena cox 2023

Process Note: Working in Picsart: for Layer 1; i placed together a collage background of red &  black, and  black & white patterns..Layer 2 was adding one of my carnival photos from children masquerading along The Western Main Road  from my archives.. Layer 3 was adding stickers..  Layer 4 adding text.

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Trini to the bone lyrics from Musixmatch.com

Islands in the sun
Islands in the fun

Welcome welcome one and all, to de land of fete
Trini to bone, bego to the bo
When it come to bacchanal, well, they can't beat we yet
Trini to bone, bego to the bo

Look, sweet women parade abundantly
De bredren, they're full of energy
Some people say God is a Trini
Paradise and all convincing me
God gave us a spirit firey
But nothing in de world don't bother we
But look a smart man gone wid we money
We still come out and mash up de party

Sweet sweet T and T, oh how I love up dis country
Sweet sweet T and T, no place in dis world I'd rather be
Oh how I love up me country!
Sweet sweet T and T, all dis sugar can't be good for me

from Toco to Caroni
(Oh oh) Maravel to Sans Souci
(Oh oh) from Scarborough to Coco Reef
(Oh oh) profiling on Fredrick Street

Oh how I love up dis country, sweet sweet T and T
No place in dis world I'd rather be
Sweet sweet T and T, oh how I love up me country
Sweet sweet T and T

We come from de place where the people have the real energy
Trini to the bone, bego to the bo
You can get a beach on da somebody heat really come from we
Trini to the bone, bego to the bo

You can't miss a real Trini roadie
But look a crab run in from Akorie
The tasyaranpan ya calling me
But I gotta get there in a hurry
There's no place like home, some people say
Though some have to leave to make their way
But in their hearts I know their destiny
To come home and big up de country

Sweet sweet T and T, Lord how I love up dis country
No place in dis world I'd rather be
Lord how I love up me country yeah, yeah yeah
All dis sugar can't be good for me

from Couva to Signal Hill
(Oh oh) Arima to Charlotteville
(Oh oh) Matelot down to Port-A-Spain
(Oh oh) yeah yeah, we playin' mas sun or rain

Sweet sweet T and T, oh how I love up dis country
Sweet sweet T and T, no place in dis world I'd rather be

Look ah Trini gyal dey, she breaking away
Tobago gyal, oh what a bacchanal
De men gone wild, de wickedest style
De gyal look back, dey on de attack
De style just change, man re-arrange
De fete gone clear, cause nothing can compare to a Trini rising
Oh no no, nothing can compare to a Trini rising

As crazy as we might seem to be
We still fight to be a family
Indian, African or a Chinese
Serian, French-Creole and Portuguese
We vex with a spirit fiery
Some people say God is a Trini
Sweet women parade abundantly
Now de problem is plain to see

Sweet sweet T and T, oh how I love up me country
Sweet sweet T and T, no place on earth I'd rather be
Sweet sweet T and T, oh how I love up me country
Sweet sweet T and T, all dis sugar can't be good for me

West Mooring to Locirot
(Oh oh) from Sando to Mayaro
(Oh oh) from Penal to Grand Riviére
(Oh oh) sweetness in abundance everywhere
Oh how I love up me country

Sweet T and T

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Hot colours

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take care when you bite

not to squash your dreams over

a ripened cherry

© gillena cox 2023

NOTE

Layer 1 of today's tag is one of my bougainvillea  photos 

For Layer 2 i added stickers from picsart

Layer 3 i adde text from picsart

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sumie Sunday 31

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WELCOME TO

Sunday 31 of Sunday Post Cards

Wishing all a Happy A Happy Month of June

Tell me about your Sunday  email me  OR post a COMMENT 

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SUNDAY SMILES 

What's there to smile about today? Thank God for the grace of poetry.

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morning birds sing -

the taste of green apples

crunchy and tart

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

 Sunday Post Card Art- GREYSCALE

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The SundayWhirl - Wordle 609

beyond desire-

the sight of feathers in flight

spinning dreams to hope 

 summer drive through-

a tinkle at slightest breeze  

 the guise of windchimes 

mornings open

allowing light at springs  to

reveal pebbles

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Link up with a smile: in a poem, quote, or image.

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This June i am painting water colour splashes with felt marker out lines

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YUMMY

How would you cook this. Here in T&T🇹🇹 we call this  green bean bodi. Tell me in the comments ☺

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ENJOY THE MUSIC:

Welcome to Art For Fun Friday #65

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All About Numbers

Friday Face OFF 23\06\23

HAPPY TO BE FEATURED

Samobor Haiku Meeting 2023 (a Croatian magazine)

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at The Bucco Reef

turtle swims to greet Wilma -

what a fine welcome

© gillena cox 2023

NOTE: 

The Buccoo Reef Marine Park (BRMP) is located at the southwest tip of Tobago. The park spans an area of 7 sq km and consists of five reef flats that enclose a shallow reef lagoon and a mangrove swamp.

YUMMY

Gillena Cox photo

Fried fish..cornmeal coocoo.. callaloo

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summer all year round

sometimes

it rains cats and dogs

© gillena cox 2023

##A photo fromHERE digitally manipulated and a photo, and bougainvillea bouquet from my table - with background removed; make up my image today. I used Picsart

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sumie Sunday 30

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 Fathers Day 2022

WELCOME TO

Sunday 30 of Sunday Post Cards

Wishing all a Happy A Happy Month of June

Tell me about your Sunday  email me  OR post a COMMENT 

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SUNDAY SMILES 

What's there to smile about today? Thank God for the grace of poetry.

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he gives his child 

the gift of an ornate bride -

 first doll 

© gillena cox 2023

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BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

 Sunday Post Card Art- BRIDES BOUQUETS

AND
The SundayWhirl - Wordle 608

mist rising morning -

shadows of yesterday lost 

to the still forest

time filters summer -

who will belt the sentinel

a crow or a creek

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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL VISITING FATHERS

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